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  • Reenie G

    Pain Control and Cost Factors

    posted by  Reenie G in Costa Rica forum 

    I met with Urzola and Arguello and found them to be equally as personable and professional. If I could have both do my surgery, that would be the ideal, in my opinion.

    Arguello is (overly) safety conscious, so while Urzola is also safety aware, Arguello will only perform certain procedures in the hospital and not the out patient clinic like we have most of our cosmetic surgery done in the US. The out patient clinic is called UNIBE. It is very clean and has mostly everything you would want/need except maybe something I wouldn't want to do there would be something drastic like a transplant or cardiac surgery.

    The cost of the hospitals (Clinica Biblica or Cima) make the procedures cost more but if you are someone that wants to take EVERY precaution especially traveling outside of the US, then by all means, pay a few dollars more for the hospital. It will still be much less expensive for the same quality of care or maybe even better, than you would have here in the US for double the cost, at least.

    As for pain control, I was informed that I would be kept very comfortable while there and both Drs were fine with me bringing whatever medications I was used to taking for surgeries at home, if I chose to get them prescribed by my personal physicians here in the US and bring them with. It's a foreign country and they don't have all of the same meds we have here in the US.

    I spoke with an RN that was recovering from a facelift and another patient recovering from multiple cosmetic procedures and they both said they were always comfortable. They had a different Cosmetic Surgeon and said "they use morphine down here" so the meds may be different than you would have at home. I will in all likelihood bring my own.

    Reenie ;)

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