Dr Aceves credentials

[sleevesearch 14]

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong website, but Dr Aceves website doesn't discuss anything about the sleeve procedure, only bypass and lapband. Does anyone have a link to this information, specifically from Dr. Aceves? Also what sort of after care do you need when you come home? Can your primary doc do this? Or do you have to find someone specific?

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

The only after care you need after sleeve surgery is lab work. Your pcp can order the lab work you need. Some people get an upper GI too and your pcp can order that as well.

I would call Dr. Aceves office to get your questions answered. They are great about answering questions.

[Krista2653 5]

I asked Monica with Dr. Aceves' office about the Nexium mups and the cost - she told me that she believed they were $40 for a 2-week supply.

Thanks for the tips, Brenda on the other PPI meds and the broth cubes for the flight home - good thinking! I'll have to add that to my list to pack! My "carry on" is quickly filling up....I hope I can make due without checking a bag with all of this stuff I keep adding!!

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Dr. Aceves has done over 1,000 sleeves now. I can't edit the first post.

[sleevesearch 14]

I posted the other day indicating that Dr. Aceves website didn't provide any information on VSG. Now I have found another website for him (obtained from FACS), with alot more info.

LAP-BAND,laparoscopic banding,bariatric surgery,obesity <<alot detailed info

Dr. Alberto Aceves M.D. - Welcome << specific to lapband, but the only one that came up on google search, so I thought that was it for Dr. Aceves.

[Mary Gordon 3]

thanyou orgegon daisy for posting the info on Dr. Aceves!!! people need to read how professional and reliable Dr. Aceves and his staff are.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Believe me, it is my pleasure. I want everyone to know what a great surgeon he is. He doesn't even need to advertise on here, and more than half the board has gone to him, just through word of mouth.

[Krista2653 5]

We also need to give props for the recent poll Dr. Aceves' office did that showed that 96% of his patients have lost 100% of their excess body weight in 12 months!!

That is incredible seeing as though the results for the sleeve in general are only at a total of 60% of excess body weight after 3-5 years!

Whatever Dr. Aceves is doing, it's working!

I hope to be that sucessful! I have about 175lbs that I want to lose and I surely hope that I'm in that 96%. Sounds like my odds are pretty damn good!

Krista

Scheduled for 08-27-10 - It can't come soon enough!!!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Hey Dr. Aceves patients!

What size does the Dr. use for his sleeve? Is it a 32?

Thanks for you replies :confused1:

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

He uses a 34 and oversews it so that it is a 32 when after surgery.

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Works for me! It's sounds better even. "Over" anything is what I'm looking for. Except Over Weight that is.

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

He uses a 34 and oversews it so that it is a 32 when after surgery.

Strange, I was on his website (the Gastric Sleeve Surgeon one) this morning and it stated he uses a 36. Maybe it's changed recently.

[Krista2653 5]

I think the 36 oversewn to a 34 is what I was told by Monica - either way, the difference between a 32 and a 34 is insignificant I read somewhere that each size up is the difference of a few millimeters...some docs use a 40 and people still have good restriction. I know some docs try to do a 34 to reduce the chance of the stomach twisting or "sticture" I think they call it.

[log_lex 0]

Can anyone help me and tell me the process of Dr. Aceves for transportation from airport to hospital to hotel and the name of the hotel? I think that I may have read this somewhere but I have read so many of these post that I can remember where I saw it. Thanks so much

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

Can anyone help me and tell me the process of Dr. Aceves for transportation from airport to hospital to hotel and the name of the hotel? I think that I may have read this somewhere but I have read so many of these post that I can remember where I saw it. Thanks so much

I'm here now. The driver picks you up in a van at San Diego airport by 11 am and then drives you across the border to the hospital - about a 2-hr drive. There, you and the other patients will undergo pre-op testing, fill out some quick paperwork, and then go to the hotel. The hotel is called Lucerna. It's a decent hotel, along the lines of Best Western, comfortable, but not over the top. Then you are free to go have dinner (at the hotel or elsewhere). The next morning, the driver picks you and the other folks up at 7 am and takes you to the hospital to meet with the doctors and discuss your pre-op results.