Submitted by ProgressMom68 t3_1049xlg in springfieldMO
Has anyone had weight loss surgery here in town? Where did you go and how was your experience? I know it’s a personal question. Feel free to PM me.
I’m looking into bariatric surgery. I had a consult at Cox and honest to god it felt like a used car dealership. I was quite put off. Cox is the most optimal but I’m open to Mercy, if the reviews are positive. I haven’t had the greatest experience with Mercy.
Thank you!
the only problem i have with mercy, I cant do the paperwork online. I have to have a sighted person help me. I don't like that. That drives me nuts. I cannot take most of the approved medicine because of medical problems I have. I need to do something. I have thought of the gastric sleeve. then I would not have my intestines rerouted. and my doctor says thats where i am at at this point. I a at that point of facing facts. but I have to figure out what I am going to do. I am over 200 pounds over weight. so I have to do something now not later.
It’ll be cheaper (by like half) and a way better experience to travel to another country and get it done there. I suggest Mexico. Specifically https://eliasortiz.co/
Good luck to you!
I have adequate coverage but thank you!
Skip it entirely, keep your digestive tract intact, and look into a GLP-1 like Mounjaro, Wegovy, or Ozempic (real FDA approved meds, not some MLM supplement.) DM me if you want more info. I've been on one since July and lost 23% of my starting weight.
I’ve been on GLP-1s for several years for diabetes, which is what they’re actually for. But thanks.
Yeah those meds though are not often covered by insurance. also I wonder how many of my meds those interact with. Secondly I tried fentermine but its is a risk for epilepsy
There are workarounds on the insurance issues, depending on your budget. Regardless, all of them are better than messing up your digestion permanently, needing many expensive supplements forever, and often still not keeping the weight off.
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I know there are many factors involved…but let me present this option.
I was obese on BMI…short but muscular build threw it off. I have a few fat scars on my inner thighs. I’m early middle aged but was on the fast food and tastes great most anything out of the bag at the grocery store train for most of my life.
But I reached a point about a year ago where I had inadvertently cut out a lot of these things but also stumbled upon this video. Plant/seed/vegetable oils are in SO MANY things. I ate them most of my life. They even promote them on packaging.
But ya know I cut out 95% (sometimes it’s like the 14th ingredient by weight on a generally otherwise healthy meal…ok) but if I eat something with those oils in them now I feel like hell for hours. I walk past entires aisles and sections of the store I used to LOVE like it’s no problem.
Watch this video https://youtube.com/watch?v=rQmqVVmMB3k&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
It’s a great explainer for plant oils and why they are not just trash literally but kill people.
I had a friend in my early 20s who had the surgery. He did lose weight. I went from 4 meals a day of trash and kinda overweight to maybe 2 meals a day, knowing when too much is a thing and feeling bad if more, and also the hell of eating a meal heavy in plant oils.
I say this genuinely too, if your body slowly cuts back, your risk of skin issues becomes more natural and less surgery related for stretch marks.
I never saw myself here a year later but life is better and I have nothing to sell you other than my experience and my bodies ejection of literal trash poisoning people every day. For every plant oil based meal, there is a great recipe waiting on the other side that isn’t just healthy but filling.
I noticed by 3 months, had a great reckoning by 6 and my body hates that crap by 9. You can too.
No thanks. Just came looking for surgeon recommendations. Don’t need quack “medical” advice from strangers on the Internet.
Embarrassed_Tax_6547 t1_j34rnbn wrote
I just had my surgery last week with Dr Simpson @ COX. So far everything has been great