I thought this was an appropriate name for a new thread!!! Seems like we keep hearing again and again about all the doctor's south of the border. Never a bad word, never a leak, never a complaint, not one. Never, never, never. I don't know if people who have had something go wrong are paid NOT post it, are they scared to or if they just kick the bucket and we're never the wiser. Who knows.....I am here to tell you that after reading those "scripts", I feel cheated, jipped, screwed out of a "butterfly and rainbow" experience. I landed at DFW airport from out of state. Nobody from my un-named doctor's office picked me up. Nobody delivered me to the hospital the next morning and nobody, but NOBODY put a chocolate chip cookie on my pillow. Oh wait, that is The Doubletree that does that, wrong board. He insisted that I stick around for two weeks. I had to show up for a one week visit, then a two week visit before I could go back home. How dare he, what was he thinking???? Like I said, cheated, cheated, jipped. Said doctor is un-named to protect the innocent from my "in jest" post. If he wants me to go on and on about him, I DO need a script and a little incentive!

Not a lot to be learned in this thread, except that there are butterflies and rainbows in America.

I don't really understand this thread either. I had planned to go to Dallas as well. With all the research and posts from people nice enough to write detailed experiences, I decided to pay half the price to take a Mexican vacay! I was never asked to promote my doctor or asked to not write anything bad about him. When I was pre op I obsessed over reading those posts and genuinely appreciated them!

Are you angry you paid so much? What's the issue? Most of those threads are posted in the Mexico forum anyway. Since you were sleeved in the US why are you even reading those posts? You've really caused a stir on this site the past week. It's weird because usually you're so positive from what I've seen. It's like someone hacked your screen name or something. What's up?

I don't really understand this thread either. I had planned to go to Dallas as well. With all the research and posts from people nice enough to write detailed experiences, I decided to pay half the price to take a Mexican vacay! I was never asked to promote my doctor or asked to not write anything bad about him. When I was pre op I obsessed over reading those posts and genuinely appreciated them!

Are you angry you paid so much? What's the issue? Most of those threads are posted in the Mexico forum anyway. Since you were sleeved in the US why are you even reading those posts? You've really caused a stir on this site the past week. It's weird because usually you're so positive from what I've seen. It's like someone hacked your screen name or something. What's up?

Believe it or not, I got a "steal of a deal" with what I paid. We were living in WI and sleeve surgery wasn't popular at all up there....at that time. I attended a support group, pre- op and post-op. There was ONE lady who'd had it and her surgeon had to battle with the insurance company for it to be approved. Anyway, IF you could find a doctor that did our surgery, it was between 22K and 28K. Shocking, because it was so much less in the south, TX, TN, LA, GA. All over down here it was between 11K and 15K. I'm not sure why, but it is the most popular surgery here, with most of the support group people having had sleeve surgery, with 1 or 2 RNY and seldom ever a lapband patient. Before I decided to come to Dallas for sure, I check Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and even Chicago, all were about double the price, some more than double and that is for cash pay! So, I was thrilled with the price, it felt like Christmas morning when I discovered there were options when insurance wouldn't pay because I wasn't big enough and didn't have pre existing health issues. Oh well.

Believe it or not' date=' I got a "steal of a deal" with what I paid. We were living in WI and sleeve surgery wasn't popular at all up there....at that time. I attended a support group, pre- op and post-op. There was ONE lady who'd had it and her surgeon had to battle with the insurance company for it to be approved. Anyway, IF you could find a doctor that did our surgery, it was between 22K and 28K. Shocking, because it was so much less in the south, TX, TN, LA, GA. All over down here it was between 11K and 15K. I'm not sure why, but it is the most popular surgery here, with most of the support group people having had sleeve surgery, with 1 or 2 RNY and seldom ever a lapband patient. Before I decided to come to Dallas for sure, I check Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and even Chicago, all were about double the price, some more than double and that is for cash pay! So, I was thrilled with the price, it felt like Christmas morning when I discovered there were options when insurance wouldn't pay because I wasn't big enough and didn't have pre existing health issues. Oh well.[/quote']

My doc's cash price in OK is $9995. Doesn't include pre-op testing, but everything else (including two nights in the hospital) is included and he has a ton of experience. I've been shocked to see that the price is double that elsewhere in the US!

So, is the purpose of this thread to call out advertisers? To make fun of us who had a hotel stay? Or had it easier by not having to travel back and forth? Call people liars for saying it was a better experience there? I'm confused.

Why can't people let this go? If you don't agree just don't reply.

OP.. Not everyone goes to MX because of the price.

Why can't people let this go? If you don't agree just don't reply.

I'm just trying to understand what I'm agreeing or disagreeing with. LOL!

Not sure whats up... I don't see the problem with us opining..

Why can't people let this go? If you don't agree just don't reply.

...that cuts both ways...if you don't care for the direction of the thread either don't post or stop following

So, is the purpose of this thread to call out advertisers? To make fun of us who had a hotel stay? Or had it easier by not having to travel back and forth? Call people liars for saying it was a better experience there? I'm confused.

I'm not sure who you're talking to or which of us are confusing, but I for one traveled a lot. Back and forth from Wisconsin to Texas, four round trips to and from my surgeon before we moved back to TX, I stayed in a hotel over night every trip. A pretty good discount due to the nature of my stay. I've read through every post on this thread and I'm certain they are all plain and clear, nothing murky.

Alrighty then.....God bless you all! I will unsubscribe now!

Alrighty then.....God bless you all! I will unsubscribe now!

No, don't do that Nicole.. Pop on over to the 'Ignore User' thread and read the last few pages.

Whoa.... I'm a newbie brought here buy pretty title and kept here through sheer nosiness.... I kinda feel like I've walked into a room filled with nothing but tension and the sound of crickets!

*Tiptoeing backwards* *Shutting door*

(Whispers) Hope that broke the tension! :ph34r: