Anyone here from that area?

I am an Orange County Transplant now living in South Corona. I lived in Riverside in the late 80's while I attended college at UCRiverside. Where are you in Riverside?

I live off of the 91 @ Van Buren. My surgery is scheduled for July 9th! Its nice to find someone local. I had a consult with Dr. Naim, but my insurance wouldn't cover surgery with his facility.

Where are you having your surgery? Wow, the 9th is soooooo close. I am having my pre-op on the 10th and surgery on the 11th.

I originally went to Dr. Naim/Dr. Omidi's office in Beverly Hills for a Lap Band seminar and while fighting with my insurance company with two appeals I had a MAJOR nose reconstruction done with Dr. Omidi. As you can see by my photo, it was quite a large nose...now it is small and in proportion with my face...lol! They are very kind there and I am sorry you could not join me. I am sure you found a great surgeon as there are so many here in Southern California, it is very hard to choose.

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Where are you having your surgery? Wow, the 9th is soooooo close. I am having my pre-op on the 10th and surgery on the 11th.

I originally went to Dr. Naim/Dr. Omidi's office in Beverly Hills for a Lap Band seminar and while fighting with my insurance company with two appeals I had a MAJOR nose reconstruction done with Dr. Omidi. As you can see by my photo, it was quite a large nose...now it is small and in proportion with my face...lol! They are very kind there and I am sorry you could not join me. I am sure you found a great surgeon as there are so many here in Southern California, it is very hard to choose.

I found a great doctor @ UCI Medical Center. His name is Dr Reavis.

Hi Im in downtown riverside.. im starting the WLS class with Kaiser on friday and hopefully in a few months I will get accepted..

I was originally sent to see Dr. Reavis, but he was not covered by my insurance, so they gave me Dr. Nyguen (strange, considering they are in the same office) I had my surgery on June 9.... I live in Riverside as well in the La Sierra area. Hope all is going well for you!!

Hello Everyone!

There is a really good support group in Rancho Cucamonga. Its held the second Monday and the fourth Thursday of each month.

Its held at Rancho Specialty Hospital off Haven and Spruce if you're familiar with the area.

My sister had her Gastric Bypass in June there with Dr. Milton Owens. I am so proud of her! She has lost over 50 pounds so far and she is scrambling to get some new clothes! Thanks goodness Dr. Owens's group at Rancho has a great clothing exchange! Now she can go and get a whole new wardrobe!:thumbup:

I do and would love to get together with fellow bandsters in the IE

Hope there are still some riversiders out here!! There's a meeting across the street from riverside medical clinic every first Thrusday of the month at 6pm!!! The building Is between the shiny window building and Rmc's office building- you'll see the door open on the bottom floor!!!

Hi do any of you riverside county residents have iehp ? Can I get some names of Drs who will actually approve a wls with iehp ? Plz & thx