Hello I have been approved for surgery by my insurance and need find a surgeon that does surgery in the 600+ lb range i live in So cal in Barstow any help would be nice i thank you in advance

The Tijuana surgeons appear to sometimes take patients that won't be cleared for surgery in the u. S.

I'm a bit late on the uptake on this thread, but my choice in socal would be Dr. Ara Keshisian in Glendale (I believe that he also still works out of Delano, in the Central Valley, if that is any more convenient to Barstow.) He is one of our long-experienced DS surgeons, which means that he has been doing sleeves for a very long time, and usually isn't afraid of the larger or more challenging patients (the DS is a sleeve with added intestinal changes for some malabsorption.)

At your size, he will no doubt try to move you into a DS, which wouldn't be a bad thing to consider as it overall shows better results, particularly for high-BMI patients and in regain resistance - it should be something that is on your radar to consider.

If you really want to stick with the sleeve, look into Dr. Paul Cirangle in SF, as he has developed some pretty successful protocols for making the sleeve work well with high-BMI patients, so he is probably your best shot at getting where you want to go with just the sleeve (though even with insurance he is on the expensive side with a rather high added program fee.)

Good luck on your venture, wherever you decide to go!

I don't know if my surgeons takes larger patients, but it's worth a try, so give him a call. He is Dr. John Yadegar. His practice is in Palmdale. I drove in from Palm Springs. It's a two hour, plus, drove for me. The doctor is awesome. Superb bedside manner, compassionate office staff, and Palmdale Hospital is the bomb.

We have a crack Bariatric team at Desert Regional, in Palm Springs as well. One of the Drs is refered to as Dr. Bobby. Look through the on line yellow pages for both of these doctor's numbers. I believe Dr. Y does the DS.

thank you guys i will call them and update when i find out but thank you for the heads up