2 Month Post-Nissen update

Hi all.
Just realized that I've been one of those typical members who posts a few questions and problems during their season of surgery and then disappears as things get back to normal. So I thought I'd do an update to help balance my recovery issues with recovery benefits.

After 10 years of GERD my life is coming back to normal and normal is awesome. 2 months post NF HH I can pretty much eat ANYTHING I want again... except dry bread. The difference is my stomach now tells me that I feel full, so I'm naturally losing a lot of the excess weight I had piled on over the last few years.

I'm basically no longer an asthmatic. I've gone from taking around 20 puffs of Salbutamol a day to maybe one a week. I can run around and do all kinds of exercises that have been off the menu for many years. I've just spent a week on holiday for my 10th anniversary racing around Dreamworld and Wet n Wild in Australia, up stairs, down hyrdoslides, changing temperatures, stop/start exercise etc, all things that would have had me wheezing and gasping for breath 3 months ago, but post fundoplication I can just take it in my stride.

Best of all, I got my voice back. I can sing in tune and with good projection at all volumes. I can talk all day and even strain my voice in noisy situations without it disappearing.

So many things in the first 6 weeks after surgery were difficult. Perhaps the hardest thing was the unpredictability - e.g feeling fine in the morning and awful in the evening - but I spent a lot of time thinking about how great it would be once I had fully recovered, which helped me not to worry too much when dealing with side effects.

But the side effects are now fading into the past, and the benefits are rapidly taking their place. Every day I'm confronted with something that makes me realise just how many negative symptoms I was putting up with, and how different normal-life is to GERD-life.

My 5 slits have healed up well, one of them has almost paled to the point that it doesn't look visible.

Having energy is a plus. Actual energy! Enough to make me want to exercise and "do stuff"

I've probably said about this, but I'm obviously super glad to have had this surgery and I hope it works out well for others in a similar position.

Thank you both for posting. My toupet surgery is scheduled for May 15th and it helps so very much to hear your success stories.
Peg