Hi Aziz,Welcome to the Healing Well
Wrapped Club!
Yes, yes, yes...feelings of reflux are very common during your stage of recovery. My surgeon told me that the esophagus is a dumb organ, and it interprets all pain as reflux. As far as reflux into your mouth, I'd wager it is actually liquid/foodstuff/medication even, that has been held back by the wrap site, and is refluxing back up into your esophagus and mouth.
During the first two weeks or so, your wrap becomes increasingly more swollen, which can make it even more difficult to get food/liquids to fully pass the wrap and into the stomach.
Keep in mind that although your surgery was done laproscopically, your insides have been through MAJOR SURGERY. Your stomach has been stretched and wrapped and stitched and your diaphragm repaired. Your stomach as a right to complain and feel sour. I would, too!!
Here is a link to my early recovery journal. I have asthma, so disregard the references to lungs/coughing.
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=45&m=2183443 The first two weeks or so of you recovery are the most challenging. When I talked to my surgeon with fears that I was getting reflux, he said, "Pretty much anything is possible at this point in recovery." It is possible that swelling has caused the wrap/flap to be misshapen, and some acid is sneaking through. My money is on the reflux coming from where the esophagus and wrap meet. It's very common for some liquid and food to be held back there during the early stages of recovery.
This recovery takes six months for most of the healing and a year for the rest. You're at the very earliest stage of your recovery, and it's going to take a lot of patience as you give your body the time it needs to heal. It is far too early to even think about
getting any tests to see what's going on. These things will settle down as you heal. I know it's scary to think you've had the surgery and it hasn't been successful...many of us have worried about
that in the first weeks of recovery, believe me!
Hang in there! It gets better!
Happy healing,
Denise