Sick and tired of being sick and tired - contemplating Nissen

My understanding is that reflux has a number of causes, but the surgery improves symptoms only if the cause is a hiatal hernia or a weak LES (or, perhaps, a strong LES that has too many or too lengthy transient relaxations). Thus, if the cause of reflux is an ulcer, dysmotility, insufficient stomach acid, h. pylori, or candida, surgery wouldn't help.

Post Edited (miketx) : 3/8/2011 2:11:10 PM (GMT-7)

Just wanted to report how my days looked liked since I upped the dose of drugs and switched to Nexium from Omeprol (Omeprasole).

I get up after 10 hour sleep nights, take my meds, see my girlfriend to work, sit down for a while thinking about what to do and how to make myself go to the gym. I am feeling that any desire for motion "dies" in the joints. I can't even smile I'm so drowsy.

Then I get back to bed and sleep for another five hours, having the most intense dreams I ever experienced.

Then I wake up, force myself out of bed and sit in front of the computer and wait for the night so that another cycle of this can begin.

I am not depressed and I have not felt like this before upping the dosage. Also, I have experienced the depression induced fatigue and lethargy and it is nothing like this. It is much milder and beatable by making a decision at the moment.

This thing is unbeatable and breaks any human desire in the root.

I am just thanking God I don't have to go to work.

Dont know why Nissen would improve motility just going off what the surgeon said.

Nexium is a strange drug, I am only staying on for the rest of the month and hope to get off it after surgery. At the moment I am taking 80 mg a day 40 9n the morning 40 at night

Pat

Everyone who has GERD should watch that video! Very Informative !

hi kefalo,
i am 24 years old n was diagonosed with GERD wen i was 19.i had lost my dad a year b4 dat '''' so i hav been livin wid it 4 6 yrs now....in initially i had grade 3 esophagitis.....now there is no inflammation but my condition has deteriorated , i hav lost 6 kilos of weight, feel like my bodys dead n hollow from inside. i am a banker n hav long hours at wrk....i had a bad breakup wid my first boyfrend which increased my acid levels tremendously and had several relapses in the past two years.
right now, i weigh 44 kilos....have moderate asthma....sleepin troubles and extreme fatigue but sumhow i get the will power to get thru the day....m in PPIs, and sum anti stress pills, an inhaler for my asthma and sum anti allergen pills.....
i have given up evrythng that once gave me pleasure like pizzas, burgers, n junk food.......but i still have relapses.

wat i mean is......kefalo....there are other thngs in life as well....apart from my banking job, i do dress designing and beauty stuff like nail art n all .......i find happiness in other things....and i have a very supportive lover, my current boyfreind.
so u see.....i have accepted the fact that i can neva b lyk i was 6 yrs ago......normal n healthy......but i cant stop living my life which is oderwise grt.......

:)
simara
learnd to b happy with gerd, asthma, n sinusitis.