Dr. Richard Carter - Arlington TX

Hey: Anyone out there with recommendations on Dr.Carter who is in Arlington TX?

i went to dr. carter for my LAP-BAND® but didn't get approved so then i went to mexico to get it done, he stated that he would see me when i got back and do my fills for me. When i got back from mexico he decided not to see me for liability reasons. Finally went to Dr. Maese he works with the best band surgeons.


Leanna

banded 9-7-03 296
rebanded 10-2004 194
1.9fill my sweet spot got down to 135
now nothing in band 173

Hi! I used Dr. Carter as well as about 8 other people in my office. He's great and very supportive. You really get the feeling he cares and is interested in how you feel.

I highly recommend him. Thanks! Laura

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Laura
Banded: 3/25/05
Dr. Carter/Arlington, TX 11cc band
1st Fill 5/4/05: 3cc
2nd Fill 6/30/05: 1.5cc
3rd Fill 7/29/05: 1.5cc
4th Fill 11/7/05: 1.0cc
5th Fill 2/9/06: 1.0cc
6th Fill 3/27/06: .25cc
7th Fill 6/14/06: .75cc
:cheer2: Proud Member of The Gone For Good Club

I went to Dr. Carter for my band, they wouldn't approve it, I told him I was going to Mexico and asked when I came back would he do my fills and a check up to make sure everything was healing. He said fine. When I got back and made an appointment, Becky told me that he won't see me and changed his mind about it. Needless to say, I was a wreck for a few days trying to find a Doctor who would see me and do my fills. I found Dr. Maese he is great and Dr. Benevides re did my band after the other one slipped. FYI

Thread Starter

Thanks Laura: I am currently working to get my insurance to approve the surgery. I started this process back in November 2005 and hopefully by the end of June I will be aproved. I live in Arlington and Dr. Carter is right here not but a few minutes from my home, so I was excited to hear that you all have had such good results. Thank you for the reply!

Hey guys!

My rep referred me to Dr. Carter today. She asked me to do whatever research I needed to do and then let her know tomorrow. She said if I'm ok with using him that I could have my surgery on the 14th...which is in two weeks!

Please let me know anything and everything about Dr. Carter!

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"Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I've had enough" ---Unknown

find some one else!!

Can you elaborate?

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"Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I've had enough" ---Unknown

this will be a long story. i paid cash for my surgery. my insurance would not cover me. i went thru tlc edge. i picked dr carter out of their surgeons. i visited with him two days before my surgery. talked to him and his LB consultant and watched a video. i didnt have alot of questions because i had done seminars and research on the internet. i did ask him about pain medication after the surgery. he said dont worry i will give you Rx's after the surgery to get filled. i do not have a very high threshold for pain. surgery goes ok. they give me two morphein shots for pain before i leave the hospital because of the pain. we get home and my husband goes to get the Rx's filled. by 6pm that night i am in severe pain. i would say 12 on a scale of 1-10. my husband called the dr. to talk to him about the pain i was in. he gave me 10mg toradol. we called his service 3 times and he never returned our calls. so by 10pm we called our neighbor and he brought me over a hydrocodone. i mean i couldnt sit, stand or anything the pain was so bad.after the pain pill from the neighbor i finally felt relief from the pain. i slept very little thru the night . we called again the next morning. finally after the second call the nurse from the hopsital cal;led back and said he would NOT give me anything else and that i should just put ice on the pain. i was crying hysterically from the pain and just couldnt believe my ears. i called a family member who had just had surgery and she brought me some of her pain medication. i was finnally able to get up and down, walk, sit and everything. i felt so much better with some pain managemtn. she left me 5 pills. that was all i needed. i dont think that was too much to ask from him. so now i have a post op visit. (3 weeks later) i am glad because i really wanted to talk to him about the whole pain management. at my 3 weeks post op i dont even see him i see his LB coordinator. she doesnt look at my incisions or anything. just weighs me. then she tells me i should have lost more weight than 4 lbs. she said i should have lost at least 8-12. this may not seem like a big deal story to you but to me it was. i did find out the reason he wouldnt give me any other pain meds was because he is afraid it will make his patients sick becasue we are on liquid diets. i know everyone is different on their pain level. he was also recently fined by the state board you can read that info from the fort worth paper feb 10 issue. i'm not saying he is a bad surgeon because i dont know for sure. but i am not going back to him. i will be going elsewhere for my fills. i also have one incision that the suture is sticking out and his LB coordinator told me to snip it off with scissors. needless to say i tried that and it didnt go well. the suture is still poking me and i am afraid to call them back cause i dont know what they will say. i'm hoping it will just dissolve

I was looking into Dr. Carter of Arlington, TX to continue my fills. My current doc, Dr. Harrison, has not been good for me. Too many mistakes made. Have you found a good fill doc yet? Any suggestions?

Dr. Carter did my surgery 11/27/2007 and Ihave nothing but good things to say about him and his staff. I highly recommend him for all you lap-band® needs.

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I went to Doctor Carter’s and had a very bad experience. I went through all the insurance process of six months supervise diet, psychologist, stress test etc… I didn’t have the chance to meet him so I can’t talk about his qualities, but I can honestly say his office staffs are a real mess. First a few days before I finished my supervised diet I called Becky (Miss Mistakes) to let her know and to see if she needed anything else from me and the most important I informed her that my employer was changing insurance for the next year and she told me not to worry that the turn around with my actual insurance (Cigna) was really quick (like 2 weeks), she told me that she will call me back as soon as she heard from the insurance company. Here I was waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting…..well I didn’t get a call from her and December came around. I called her back and to my surprised she just placed my record in a pile and was not being handled, needless to say I lost the opportunity to get approved through Cigna. I was really mad about the whole situation and she was blaming me for not calling her when she told me several times she will be calling me, however why should my record be sitting in a pile after I went through my surgery process. After this lovely mistake she submitted the approval paperwork to my new insurance (Aetna) and I called to check the status every week. When I received the denial letter from my insurance I notice that they were using my maiden name instead of my married name which was an error from the insurance company, but I called Becky right away to let her know about it so that they could appeal the decision. A few weeks later I got a called from the scheduler letting me know that my insurance approved the surgery and we scheduled the surgery. I was contacted from the surgery place and everything was set up. I requested time off at work as well as my husband and bought an airplane ticket for my mother to come and babysit the kids. I had an appointment to go and see Dr. Carter 2 days before surgery and to do the entire pre-op test. Well people guess what…..Miss Becky made the biggest mistake ever, she read my approval papers wrong…..I didn’t get approved the letter was actually a denial letter….Can you believe this? I was in shock so in shock that I didn’t reacted the way I should have (meanly and rudely ). I told her that I had everything set up that how they could make a mistake like this and she was very careless and rude about it when the mistake was obviously made by her and her staff. I think this is one of the worse mistakes you can make to a patient that is trying to get a loss weight surgery to better their health.