I was banded by Dr. gonzales in

April 07. Everything was going well up to two months then everything started. I got an infection at the port. After many visits and no results at Dr. Gonzales's office for over 4 months. I ended up in the hospital and many doctor visits here in the US, I ended up in the hospital for over four weeks in a two month period and two surgeries within a week of eachother the band was removed. Couple of more days of delay I would have been dead. I have e-mailed Dr. Gonzales office many times and told them what happened to me but no one is responding or cares. It is very disapointing. All he kepted on doing is giving me antibiotics and sending me home instead of taking care of the infection. It had spread all over my abdomen. It was a nightmare. I am now struggling to keep the weight off.

anyone else who had the same experiance. I was told that the bacth of bands they got was faulting, so everyone who got banded by him in April or May of 2007 amy have had a faulty band. I know 5 people who went throught the same thing, because everytime I went to see him they were there withthe same problem.:thumbup::blushing:

ok i'm gonna get my but chewed on here but here i go,,lets see you were banded 1month ago and you only have 20 lbs more to lose,, just how fat were you,,or were yiou starving your self,, and dr gonzalas who were does he practice,there are probly lots of dr gonzalas,,if you claim he nearly killed you then state the address of him so we all can be aware,,,i've trolled this site for a whileand see the statistics of band complications which on the percentages is about lessthan1percent, i' mean really complications no minor ones,,and with about 300,000 bands put in,that would put it at less than 3,000 geez by my estimation it seems that over 20 percent of the people on here claim,,to have serious complications ,,the study and the numbers just don' add up,,i no there may be some probs but let me be in that group of a batch of bad bands i'll be sitten on a beach collecting 20 percent

If you read her response - her first words are that she was banded in April 07- 13 months ago. No need for butt chewing just more careful reading.

I think that you should find a lawyer as quickly as possible. I would start with the yellow pages, and find an attorney that can help you with a case that is out of the country. The fact that he is in a different country presents a whole new slew of problems from a legal standpoint. (I had an acquaintance who had plastic surgery by a dr in Mexico that went horribly wrong) I really don't believe that this is something that the average consumer can handle on their own. They may have already started shredding documents for all you know.

I'm sure they have deleted all my pictures from their files and shredded my papers. I will try to persue this but I don't think I'll get anywhere since it is not something that was done in the US. My whole concern is for people out there. All I want is to make people aware of how I was treated post op, until then they were very nice, but once things went wrong they did not take responsibility and take care of me like they should have. They let it go to long, and I believe I went throught what I went through because of it. If they had maybe gone in and changed the band early enough it might have been OK. Or at least taken action somehow instead of ignoring the problem.

Has anyone out there gone through the same thing? With Dr. Gonzales or anyone else?

Anyone else out who has gone through the same thing with Dr. Gonzales?

I haven't gone through anything like this, but there is a member on here who is familiar with Mexican surgeons, and I believe she has information on going after Mexican surgeons via the legal system. Her screen name is wasabubblebutt. You could send her a private message. I believe she had surgery recently, so she might not be on for a bit.

If your husband still has the band, Inamed can determine if the product was faulty. I imagine that if they discover that it was, they would compensate you to some degree..

First of all, the Mexican health system is not like the US. You take a risk by going over the boarder to have that done. I have joked with my husband about having things done over there and he says NO unless you want to do. His aunt died because of the poor service in a Mexican hospital. His dad is Mexican and is from TJ where the original poster of this thread had her surgery. My husband won't even take me to TJ because it isn't a place to go and definitely not a place to have surgery just to get it at a cheaper price.