Two months after my nissen fundoapplication

Rita-
How are you doing today? Hope you slept very well last night.

Take care,
Bill

Rita-
So sorry the dilation relief isn't lasting. Hope it's just a temporary thing.

Take care,
Bill

Hi,

I am 38 and had the nissen wrap done about 12 days ago.  Pretty painfull the first week but feeling better now.  However, I do feel that intense pain in the chest once in a while that kinda feels like GERD.  I don't feel the food coming back but I certainly feel the chest pain I use to experience at night with heartburn.  I'm concerned that I may still be having reflux. I had a lot of irritation in my esphagus and stomach bf the surgery, so I'm not sure if the esophagus still needs time to heal.  I couldn't avoid having a chai tea latte (not terribly hot though) fm Starbucks yesterday (I'm hooked!) and about an hour later I started feeling the pain.  Never again, that's for sure.......

My eating and swalloeing is getting much better but like almost everyone else here, I get a lot of bloating. Has anybody experienced that chest pain on and off the first few weekes after the procedure?  It does feel like the chest pain that comes with reflux?

Pls advise..

Thx- Fabiemilia.

Back in the hospital on Friday the 18th for a second stretch of the NF site. Still no relief and the first stretch didn't last but for a couple of days.

My esophagus was short according to the surgeon before the surgery and many post-NF complications are further complicated when this condition exists to begin with.

When this is an actual complication after surgery sometimes the wrap has to be taken down and turned into a 270 as compared to the original 360. This remains to be determined in my case as the surgeon wants it to be dilated at least 2 or 3 more times after the one on October 3rd which was the first time.

When extreme constipation sets in post-op as in my case the foreshortened esophagus is sometimes to blame and it does indeed feel as though the longer my surgery heals the tighter things in that area become and passing gas or having BMs is nearly impossible even with medication. Certainly something I've never dealt with much at all in my 65 years.

Time will tell and I am handling it well but things just don't always go as predicted or as the surgeon hopes for. It is indeed good to be positive but not so positive as to put off getting proper treatment for post-op complications.

Mayo is already lined up as the next step if further dilating doesn't resolve our issues.

Cindy 123, would like to hear how you are doing. . .

Thanks, Cindy. I've saved your email address and will write you. I just got home from the GI and was very impressed with his interest and concern.

He has scheduled the dilation for this Friday and then one for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. He spent a lot of time with hubby and me and says we won't stop till it's all good. We were both very happy.

He also said he's had quite a few wraps reduced and has had good outcomes. He is being proactive and that's making me very happy at this time. No guarantees but he wants to manage this for me and says if the repeated dilations don't work we'll look into redoing or reducing the wrap.

I hope if anyone else having complications after NF reads this that they realize when and when not to report back to their GI or their surgeon or both.

I'll email you to make sure we can connect.

Rita