I'm Home ~ Part 2 of 2 by babygirl10150

Hi Mookie you havin trouble sleepin.Its 10.30pm here and very rare to get apost at this hour lol.Babygirl DONT listen to this doc who is gettin rid of you I would suggest to go see another gi doc for folloup thats what I had to do .Goooooood luck...

Michelle-
try to relax there lady.... maybe the second time round will have better results with the Aciphex. If you get a new GI doc, get your records from the old one to take there.

Take care,
Bill

Hi Michelle.
You can get copies of all your records from your original doc. They are yours after all! Then make copies of them to give to whomever you need to have them. I get ALL my stuff: X-Rays, surgeon's op notes, MRI, CT scans, whatever.

I was told to keep taking my PPI for the first two weeks, until I saw my surgeon (actually only saw one of his minions). I was told before surgery that many people do still need to keep taking their meds permanently. And my doc has done 4 thousand of these ops! Maybe more. I have been lucky so far. was able to stop PPI after 2 weeks.

I am back on PPis. I am able to take Prilosec though and only 20mg once a day. Before I was taking 40mg of Prevacid twice a day and they were wanting to up that, so I went the surgical route. This one is a lot looser than the first, but I can swallow food and pills now. I trade being able to swallow for one pill a day.

Take care,
Bill

Michelle-
Sure it could be too loose. When I asked my surgeon about this before he redid mine he said most surgeons use a bougie to size them and make sure they aren;t too tight or too loose. He does his by feel now since he has done so many he told me. Not sure what he feels, but it seems to work. It is good not to have to drown everything in something to get it to go by the wrap.

Take care,
Bill

Hi Michelle, I hope you are feeling better! i just had mine done 2 weeks and 3 days ago. I understand how you feel totally. When i read what you wrote, it was exactly what i had been feeling also. i had complications right away, but then when i did get home i went into a deep depression and wish i had never done this and wanted to be my regular old self again. I'm so glad i found this forum because everyone here has been so helpful with information and personal experiences that it has helped me so much. i felt so alone and hopeless, but now i feel maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully all will work out once the healing is done. I hope you get answers too that you need and remember you have lots of support here. I actually found that i can eat a normal size bowl of ice cream like i used to and it doesn't bother me at all. Tastes great and goes down nice and smooth. LOL I think that is the only comfort food that is getting me through right now. makes me feel like my old self again. Best of luck to you, and I hope your symptoms get better each day.

Reading all the threads about all the tests, I've only had the manometry and an EGD. Didn't have the bravo, barium swallow, 24 hp. Shouldn't all those have been done before I had the surgery?

Michelle-
The Bravo and Ph study are basically the same thing. My first wrap was too tight. I couldn't hardly get anything by it. After 4 or 6 weeks they dilated it and did it again at the 12 week mark I think. I just dealt with it after that until the 2 year mark and could take it anymore. Between September 08 and March 09 they dilated it another 9 or 10 times. Still didn't work and never would have since it was done wrong.

Take care,
Bill

I'm having a few more tests done that I think should have been done BEFORE surgery. Monday I'm having the swallowing test, can't remember the name. What does the stuff taste like? I've had to drink barium before and couldn't. It made me sick. I'm also having another EGD and possible bravo done on the 16th. He said I can't take any meds 7 days before that test. That is going to be torture. He also gave me Kapidex again and said to take it for 2 weeks and then just stop. I'm not sure if that's such a good idea since I've been taking meds for over a year. I'm going to see how I feel the week I can't take anything and if it gets bad, I'm going to stay taking it.

Is it thick? I wonder if it's the same stuff I had before. It was like syrup.

Wow! This is going to be bad since I can barely drink half a cup of anything right now and feel really full. When you say glass, I think of a big glass. lol The first one I had were two smaller bottles and I couldn't get half of the first bottle down. What happens if you can't drink it all?

Well I barely made it through the week without any meds. Came really close to caving and taking something though. I have my endoscopy tomorrow morning to make sure the wrap is still intact with a possible bravo. I will not be a happy camper if he doesn't do the bravo, don't want to go through the agony of no meds for nothing. I'm crossing my fingers he finds something wrong.