Worried I screwed up my Nisson wrap surgery.

Talk to your surgeon to be sure nothing is wrong. He can give you a barium swallow or EGD.

Hi 2hounds,
It's very unlikely that you undid your wrap with just one small vomiting issue. I worried that mine was damaged by constant severe coughing throughout the recovery, but it was fine.

At three days, you can experience many strange symptoms. Your upper GI tract has been completely revised! It's going to take some time to heal. I don't think that any of us who have had the surgery got through recovery without worrying we did something to ruin our surgical outcome. It's a common concern!

While doctors seem determined to send us home with pills rather than liquid meds, those pills can get stuck at the wrap site and will burn until they're dissolved and go through into the stomach. Your wrap will become increasingly more swollen during the first two weeks--peaking at week two. At that point the swelling begins to diminish. Don't be surprised if your swallowing gets worse before it gets better.

Hang around this forum. It was a godsend to me when I was considering the surgery, and when I was recovering from it. Ask questions, and experienced people here will provide whatever support and information they can.
Welcome to our "Wrapped Club"!

Take care,
Denise

Well, 2hounds,
Just keep asking questions. We've been through the recovery you're experiencing, and can provide support and information from a patient's standpoint.
Hope you're having a better day today!
Denise

Well Two Hounds I can relate to the vomiting after surgery. I was sent home with compazine, but within a few days I had akathesia so bad, I had to quit taking it. Also, my medical records are all screwed up cuz I had a gastroxopy without a fundlipication.(try looking up that one-almost all posts pertain to the procedure on dogs!) It means that my stomach was tacked down to my diaphram. Every doctor pushed and entered into my records I had the fundlipication, and it was in the surgeons dictation, but I am the only one who finally went and got it! I have to say the first few weeks it felt as if I had no signs of GERD, but then an odd thing happened.

Early in the morning I would get theses horrible dry heaves. (I can't vomit anymore since the surgery) I thought it was the opiate pain meds since I have extensive degeneration from C-spine to L-5/S-1. Then I started getting the dry heaves in the middle of the day also. The last time was so violent that I felt something "give". The GERD had been slowly creeping up, but after that, it was like before the surgery, only worse.

  I sure hope I am making sense here. I have been hospitalized twice, seen serveral GIs that tell me I need to get the fundlipicaton, but these were docs I saw in the hospital; they didn't take my insurance on outpatient. The 3 I have seen out patient look like I'm crazy when I tell them I have to sit on the toilet with a trash can on my lap when I have a BM. My insides get so sore and makes everything else worse. personally, I feel like these doctors in my network are afraid to operate, so they say I don't need it. I got a new PM this week, so I was reading over all the imaging reports, and I saw that 30% of my stomach is back in my chest. Should I push to be evaluated for surgery by someone whos not aftraid to do it?

I almost died last time, I felt deathly ill, had a seizure, was in the ER in an hour and a half. It took a physical and mental toll, I hav't been able to shake and it's been over 2 yrs now. I had internal bleeding so bad I had lost weight from a comfortable size 9 to a 4. The 10 cortisone ESI's put 50 lbs on me. I have lost 12 lbs, but it is hard. I can't eat alot of things once more, so that's the only upside I can see. Sorry for rambling on, but I can see that others in the forum have similar medical conditions and I may have some insights for u as well as for myself. Thx for being here.