Just looking to see who on here has had surgery in Mexico at the CosMedClinic? I've heard a few good reports from people who have, but I am obviously apprehensive about surgery in any other country, but the savings is so significant that I figured it is worth checking out.

Please let me know if you have and how your experience went, or if you considered it and didn't--why?

Thanks!

Same here!

I had my tummy tuck and arm lift here in Houston and they are both beautiful. Dr Quiroz at CosMed did my breast lift with augmentation and neck lift in Aug 2012. He did a good job on the lift and implants and placing of my nipples but his stitch work is some of the messiest I've ever seen. Luckily my scars heal pretty well. When I had my arm lift two weeks ago here in Houston she extended it all thru my arm pit and tightened up the skin on my side boob. She cut out a lot of his messy stitching under my boobs and tightened those up. My neck lift is good but again, very messy external stitches.

A friend of mine from here flew there to get lipo in her stomach and he ended up talking her into a lower body lift. The anesthesia wasn't working (not the best quality was used on me) and so they did a spinal tap thing. They had to go in twice and they ended up tearing some tissue in her spinal chord. She had to insist on being driven to the emergency room I San Diego where they just dropped her off. I had done my research on Costmed and could only find good reviews. If I had dug deeper I would have found d similar stories to my friends.

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I saved a lot of money going to Mexico. I wouldn't recommend CosMed but I think there are other doctors there that do good work. Please do lots and lots of research before you go. There are a bunch of girls that went there and they act like he is some kind of ps god. I've seen their pictures and its not the best work. Just be very very careful.

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Thanks for the feedback!

I decided being close to my doctor was important to me following surgery, and have booked with someone here in Massachusetts.

Good idea! I had some Fluid problems from my breast lift in Mexico and no doctors here would even look at it. It worked out okay but could have been much worse!

Karen

I've always wondered when reading about all the people that go to Mexico....who do they see for follow up? What if they have a problem? I'm 5-1/2 weeks PO TT & BR/BR & on another site I'm reading of people having problems even this late into it...so what do they do? That would scare me. My doc is 2 hrs away & that has been a pain bcuz I have a small complication with one of my boobs....however, I have his cell phone # and access to him whenever I want. I couldn't imagine being out of touch with him!!

So cal amy: I know! Funny I didn't even think about it until after I had gotten back home. I did have some very painful swelling under one of my breasts. I was able to massage it and that helped alot. I called my PS here in Houston and her nurse told me that she couldn't look at it, comment on it, nothing! I guess if she even said anything about it, she could be pulled into some kind of lawsuit about it. I've heard of people ending up in emergency rooms. I've heard of success stories too. Mine ended up okay but I feel I was very lucky.