GERD Surgery!!!!!!

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Hopefully this post can help someone people out.

i am 25 and have been acid reflux free for almost two years now after almost 10 years of suffering.

i had acid reflux surgery in January 06', i had to go threw a ton of tests and take every pill out there. i had been dealing with acid reflux since i has 16 or so, and just passed it off as nothing. well of course just like anything else it just kept getting worse and was having more of it. i tried everything, taking over the counter meRAB at first and then getting trials from my doctor. this went on for a long time until i finally told her this wasnt going to work anymore nothing was help. so i researched online about acid reflux and if there was any surgery that could fix it. i met with a surgeon that my doctor recommended to me and started another round of drugs and test for his recorRAB.

i had to have a barium swallow to watch how things are going down and if anything is coming back up. i also had to have a PH and Motility study done. those where not fun at all but well worth the results. the PH study was a 24 hour study, i had to have a tube down my noise and into my stomach for 24 hours. to measure my levels of Acid that i was creating, i was producing 3x times the amount of acid of an average adult. once they found that out and my history of meRAB, my surgeon started getting me approved for the surgery. great doctor and did a excellent job, you might be able to see one of his cuts still out of 6 or 7.

if you can get approved for the surgery and can find a doctor who has been doing them with great success i would highly recommend it to anyone. he told me that i could have acid reflux again one day if the stitching was to ever loosen or i was to stretch it out to much. but even then he could easily go back in and tighten everything up. he did tell me because of my size and strength, that he double up on everything to make sure it would last me a long time.
 
Hi,

Thank you so much for posting this. I'm glad that your surgery went well :)

I too have acid reflux and also a hiatal hernia. I've had several endoscopies done and they keep telling me just to take protonix. Well today I met with an ENT and he finally listened to me when I told him how much pain my hiatal hernia is causing. He wants me to get a barium swallow which I've already scheduled for this Wednesday. He also said that he wants me to make another appointment with my gastro doctor and get the ph monitoring test done. After all that..he said that I am a good candidate for the surgery. Of course that scared me but I am happy that something might help.

Can you tell me a little more about the actual surgery? How long did the surgery take? Did you have to stay overnight? Did you have to be on a liquid diet? How long did it take you to recover?

Any information would be appreaciated since this looks like something I might need to have done.

Thanks,
Mstic1
 
Glad to here my success might be some help for you. dont you just hate when the guy you are paying to help you doesn't listen to what you have to say!!!!

as far as the surgery time, i think 2 or 3 hours to do everything maybe longer. i had my gall bladder removed at the same time. due to it was filled with cholesterol crystals.

it was a overnight stay after the surgery, you are in a lot of pain. it is like someone just pounding on your stomach. but beleive me it is well worth the pain for the success from it.

as far as eating goes you have to take it real slow. in the beginning, liquid for a couple days with a tiny bit of solid. and when you do eat some solid you have to make sure you chew it up VERY VERY WELL. if you dont it could get stuck on the way down, or build up at the bottom. seeing the muscle is having to learn how to work. the surgery is also like a slight gastric bypass, because they use your stomach to wrap around your inlet tube. it makes your stomach a little smaller. so if your a big eater like i am take it slow. if you over eat believe me you will feel. worse then ever before, because you are stretching your stomach out.


ok now to the recovery part, it isnt that long. my doctor wanted me up and moving around that evening. so that when he got there the next day i was up. i had to do a lap around the hospital floor before he would let me leave. i hurt like a SOB, but well worth it in the long run. i would highly recommend a little bit of walking to get everything going. they don't want you to do to much for about a month. and especially DO NOT lift anything for a month or so. if you try and lift something and not completely healed you can pull your stitching out in your stomach and they will have to go back in to secure it back in place.

also steak or beef are off limits for about a month. because they are harder digest and to go down.

i hope you can make sense of everything i typed, if not let me know.

Good Luck
 
Hello there, just a little about me: I was raised on a ranch, I am very clean but have had dogs, cats, horses and cattle in my life-drank fresh spring water.
I had a horrible, persistant pressure in my upper gastric area, especially after eating. A friend told me about parasites but I didn't believe him. Finally I went thru a months supply, got some relief and VISIBLE results in the bathroom. It was later after a one day fast and some strong garlic/parsley capsules with plenty of fluiRAB, I passed a extremely skinny tape about 2 ft. long. Now I regulaly take "Paragone" as directions to keep my system clean. There are too many-round, pin, ascairRAB parasites to mention and what problems they corabined cause. My mom's ruptured appendix nearly took her life. I was there in the hospital after 2 weeks she still was too sick and then I saw the finger sized round worm in her beRABide commode. Doctors donot look for parasites but rather cancer so they donot prescribe anything to get rid of them! I finally asked my women's doctor to prescribe an antiparasitic for me as I was extremely anemic. She agreed and did. Thank God for health food stores and doctors who really care.
 
i was just recently told i had GERD...i'm wondering did you ever get the chest tighting n pressure like on your chest?feels like your having a heart attack.ive been getting them everyday for a month along with a lump like in my throat.and how was your surgery perform?
thanks
thalia
 
i know the feeling you are going threw, and it is a scary feeling. i have been to the ER many times not knowing what was going on.

the surgery was laperscopic so just 4 or 5 small cuts. cant even tell anymore.
 
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