Hickory Weight Loss
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What is Hickory Weight Loss?
Hickory Weight Loss is a medical weight loss clinic at 2105 Catawba Valley Blvd SE in Hickory, North Carolina. It lists three services: a medical HCG weight loss program, pain management, and Botox therapy. It also names LIPO-B12 injections. The clinic does not mention hormone therapy, peptide therapy or longevity care.
The clinic was started in 2017 by Dalan and Jennie Garcia. Ownership is now under Dr. Gamal A Elsaidi, DO, who is the listed prescriber. He is a North Carolina physician and emergency department medical director with over 24 years of emergency medicine practice, and he has published extensively on Botox. The HCG program pairs a reduced calorie diet with an appetite suppressant. Pain management includes cortisone injections, home exercise instructions and pain medicine. Visits are in person, and no telehealth is mentioned. It has a 4.4 rating on Google from 46 reviews.
What does it cost?
The clinic does not publish prices, consultation fees, or whether it accepts insurance. It also does not say whether the HCG program fee includes the medication and visits. Call (828) 358-0000 and ask for all of these before you book.
What should you ask before you book?
Start with what the program costs in total. Ask whether the HCG fee covers the medication, the office visits and the lab work, and what each follow-up visit costs. Ask whether the HCG is brand-name or compounded, and who signs the prescription at each visit, since Dr. Elsaidi is the listed prescriber but a visit may be with someone else. Ask what the LIPO-B12 injections and Botox cost if you plan to add them.
The clinic states plainly: "HCG is NOT FDA approved for weight loss." Ask how the clinic explains that to patients and what it means for the program you would be signing up for.
Ask about cancellation terms and any required commitment length, since no membership terms are published. The Ideal Protein products mentioned on the about page are another cost to ask about. Finally, confirm the hours. The posted hours disagree about Wednesday, and the clinic is listed as open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday with Monday, Saturday and Sunday closed.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if you want an in-person program in Hickory, you are comfortable paying cash, and you want to hear directly from the physician what the HCG program includes before you commit. It is a weaker fit if you need telehealth, insurance billing, or published prices before you call.
Sources: hickoryweightloss.com, hickoryweightloss.com/contact-us, hickoryweightloss.com/about-us
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What we confirmed
Read off Hickory Weight Loss’s own website on 2026-10-11. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Medical weight loss — listed on their site as “Medical HCG Weight Loss” source
We have not yet collected published prices or prescriber credentials for this clinic. When we do, they will appear here with a link to the page they came from — or a note saying the clinic publishes none, which is itself worth knowing. Call them for a price in the meantime.