Hey there!

I got the recommendation from this board ten months ago to go to Dr. Aceves and I was *never ever* sorry I did it. It was great, it was completely safe, I had to worry about precisely nothing, they kept me drugged to the gills, and as of today I am aaaaaalmost 90 pounds lighter,

I've been exercising and watching the weight fall off month by month. I've got about 40 pounds to go and I'll be at the weight I want to be.

So I'm now thinking about plastic surgery. I want a mastopexy and *maybe* a mini-tummytuck ( we'll see in about 4 months) with a little lipo. This seems like it would be about 20K in the states, so I'm looking to re-enact my 100 percent successful surgery a second time to save money by going to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Costa Rica.

I do not care to go to Bolivia or Colombia. Thanks anyway.

Has anyone here done this? Do you know of anyone who's done it? Any surgeon recommendations? I've been poking around the net but the best place for plastic surgery recommendations and reviews is RealSelf.com; but they really only cover the US.

Anybody got any intelligence on this?

Thanks!

Hey Crosswind, Congrats on the weight loss. I just had a facelift in Costa Rica 2 1/2 weeks ago. One of the women at the recovery house where I stayed aferward had a tummy tuck and a breast lift by Dr. Chiavarria (I know I am misspelling his name--I can email her and get the correct spelling if you're interested.) Stay away from Lieberman, Cohen, and Rosenstock in Costa Rica, lots of complaints about them. Dr. Sauceda in Mexico is highly regarded by the folks on Obesity Help and almost all of his patients are post-WLS. He's doing in-person consultations in Las Vegas this June.

Hey thanks! And also thanks for the heads-up about those docs, I was looking at their profiles today. Is it Dr. Chavarria?

http://www.surgerycostarica.com/

That's the one!

I had a lot of body and face work done last month in Mexico by Dr. Sauceda. He specialized in massive weight loss and has great rates. I was there, under his care for two weeks all inclusive. He has a group over on ObesityHelp dot com. There are a lot of us over there that recently had surgery.

He will be in las Vegas in June doing consultations.