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I am home now and healing. I have been so happy with this surgery. NO PAIN at all, NO nausea at all. I do not know what Dr, A does but he truly makes this very painless. Others have said the same thing, not just me. When you wake up and have to ask if you had surgery, that is amazing. I am tender at my incisions but not sore. I am 5 days out now, sleeping well and moving around without pain. The hardest part is getting out of bed alone (my hubby leaves for work usually before I am awake). I have figured out how to do it now without pain. He sends home pain meds for us for a few days. I am taking them but I do not feel like I need them. The worst part of the surgery for me was the oral antibiotic you have to take for three days. Goodness, that was nasty tasting. So glad to be done with that :)

If you choose to go to Dr. A. (I personally would choose no one else), you will not be sorry. His assistants are wonderful and he truly cares about his patients. I recommend him highly!

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I am home now and healing. I have been so happy with this surgery. NO PAIN at all, NO nausea at all. I do not know what Dr, A does but he truly makes this very painless. Others have said the same thing, not just me. When you wake up and have to ask if you had surgery, that is amazing. I am tender at my incisions but not sore. I am 5 days out now, sleeping well and moving around without pain. The hardest part is getting out of bed alone (my hubby leaves for work usually before I am awake). I have figured out how to do it now without pain. He sends home pain meds for us for a few days. I am taking them but I do not feel like I need them. The worst part of the surgery for me was the oral antibiotic you have to take for three days. Goodness, that was nasty tasting. So glad to be done with that :)

If you choose to go to Dr. A. (I personally would choose no one else), you will not be sorry. His assistants are wonderful and he truly cares about his patients. I recommend him highly!

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I'm glad you're home and doing well.... I'm going to have mine with Dr. A in october.

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If you ever have any questions, feel free to contact me. It was a truly great experience. No joke, I still cannot believe it was so great!!

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I am still here with Dr. Alvarez. /I will get discharged tomorrow. Dr. A was so gentle and caring, help me in no pain what so ever, in fact things were so good with my surgery that i decided to go downstairs to the dentist and have 10 teeth pulled and am still feeling great.

no one has a thing to worry about with Dr. Alvarez.

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I am scheduled for Sept 25!! Counting down the days!

I looked last night but could not find a thread for Dr Alvarez. Would it be good to have one for all of Dr alvarez's patients?

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Glad you're doing good and coming home soon. It's nice to hear good stories this close to my procedure.... takes the anxiety out of it. I know I'll be in good hands with Dr. Alvarez.

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Jenn, so glad to hear that you are doing good tonight :) That is awesome!!

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I am home now and healing. I have been so happy with this surgery. NO PAIN at all' date=' NO nausea at all. I do not know what Dr, A does but he truly makes this very painless. Others have said the same thing, not just me. When you wake up and have to ask if you had surgery, that is amazing. I am tender at my incisions but not sore. I am 5 days out now, sleeping well and moving around without pain. The hardest part is getting out of bed alone (my hubby leaves for work usually before I am awake). I have figured out how to do it now without pain. He sends home pain meds for us for a few days. I am taking them but I do not feel like I need them. The worst part of the surgery for me was the oral antibiotic you have to take for three days. Goodness, that was nasty tasting. So glad to be done with that :)

If you choose to go to Dr. A. (I personally would choose no one else), you will not be sorry. His assistants are wonderful and he truly cares about his patients. I recommend him highly![/quote']

So glad it doing great jenn! I did the samething after surgery, I woke up and asked my mom if I was sleeved and I had to take a look at my tummy to see my incisions because it was painless. I know I chose the best and he always keeps in contact with me. He's not just my doctor but my friend also. ;)

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I am still here with Dr. Alvarez. /I will get discharged tomorrow. Dr. A was so gentle and caring' date=' help me in no pain what so ever, in fact things were so good with my surgery that i decided to go downstairs to the dentist and have 10 teeth pulled and am still feeling great.

no one has a thing to worry about with Dr. Alvarez.[/quote']

Yay jenn! So glad it all worked out for u ! Congrats

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I fully agree with both of you! I am so happy that we chose him. He is wonderful!! I did the same, had to ask hubby if they did my surgery! Woke up in NO pain!

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Flying into San Antonio on the 26th and having surgery with Dr Alvarez on the 28th. Its so reasuring to hear so many wonderful things about him. He even responds to my tweets...answering every question I have. Good luck to everyone . Three week liquid diet is kicking my ass even as I write this. 10 lbs down 3 days into the liquid diet so far.....still got 175 to go though. Thanks for everyone's posts

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You won't regret it. He is truly a great surgeon. I am 8 days out and feel great.

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Hello, have a question about the leak test... my papers say that he now does the leak test during surgery, does he still do the 24 hr test as well? If not, do you get ice chips the night of your procedure or still wait till next day? Thanks

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Dr. Alvarez does the leak test now during surgery, and No he no longer does the 24 hour test. 24 hours after surgery they will start you out on ice chips to suck, not swallow. The day of discharge, 48 hours after surgery you will be given juice and Water to drink.

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