Pippa1703

I had my bill a few weeks ago, the whole surgery including all was a little over 9000 euro's so quite comparable to the UK, I'd say. Luckily my operation was completely covered by the insurance, apart from the mandatory 350 euros per year, which I had already spent. Yay for a good health insurance system right?
Anyway, good luck finding a good place for surgery.

I wish I was told that you may have loose skin even if you don't lose over 100 pounds and no insurance will pay to have it removed because it won't cause rashes. Yuck!!!

I think most people these days take advantage of the internet and educate themselves. There are so many different resources from YouTube to forums like this, if you come out of surgery misinformed, you probably rushed into it and didn't research enough. I watched people journal their experience on YouTube both good and bad. One lady smoked right after surgery and was crying the blues when she was back in the hospital with ulcers blaming it on her bad choice to have WLS. I had 6 months to binge watch the thousands of YouTube videos on the subject of WLS and that alone prepared me for almost any scenario I might encounter.

360 pounds -150 

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-95lbs

16 months post op.

Thank you, this is one of the sites I had looked at

This is my first post so here’s little history...I’m 5’9, I weigh 235-240 lbs, I’m hoping to be anywhere between 140 & 160 lbs. I come from a long line of morbidly obese women, both my mother and grandmother have had weight loss surgery, although my mother had a failed lap band and has now developed diabetes, while my Nan has lost 9 stone and her diabetes is practically cured-so as you can see, my genes don’t help. I’ve lost 2-5 stone a few times, only to end up right back where I am now, I always thought surgery was out of my reach, financially, but now I realise, I need to do everything I can to enjoy my life and as much a hate admitting it, my happiness always seems directly correlated with my weight.
Over the last couple of days I’ve been to the ends of the internet doing research into different surgery types and I feel like I’ve settled onthe sleeve procedure ( be happy for a surgeon to offer alternatives if they believe they’d suit me better) Once I decided on that, I then had to research prices, care packages, reviews and which country to travel to. For me, the expense of having it done here just isn’t possible. (It’s £8-12,000 here, vs £4-7000 in other parts of Europe) and I wouldn’t qualify for it on the NHS.
FINALLY, MY QUESTION,
where have you brits, or other Europeans, travelled for your surgeries? What kind of costs were there? Any surprise costs? How was your experience? Do you feel you were supported enough throughout the entire procedure? Did you need to take a partner with you? Is it possible to go on your own if you’d rather? Did the hospital arrange hotels/flights etc? I’d love any feedback and stories, many thanks

Thank you, this is one of the sites I had looked at