Nissen post-op 2 months

Hi everyone, I am now a little more than 2 months post op, so I thought I would update for anyone looking into the surgery...

For the first month after surgery I had no heartburn. about 6 weeks after surgery started to get some heartburn. Much better than before, but I am taking 3-5 pepcid completes a week. I went from having level 10/10 heartburn 24hrs/day to level 4 heartburn for 1-5 hours a day. So better, but I was hoping it would all be gone. I think now, my heartburn depends more on what I eat (before it didn't matter). I just hope it doesn't get worse than this.

My "eating" is almost back to normal. I am eating everything. I chew a good amount and eat slowly (not as much as 3-4 weeks post op). If I eat too fast or don't chew enough, I can feel it get sightly stuck, but now it will go down and I won't have to regurgitate it like I used to have to. I can take big gulps of water, but it feels a little different going down, not painful, but different.

At about 3 weeks after surgery the "gas" pain from the surgery I had in my chest and shoulders was gone, but I would get painful stomach cramps/ gas pains. The nurse said this was normal- at 2 months post op now this is not as much of a problem. I probably burp slightly more than before.

Other than that I feel like I am tolerating sweets less. After, say, a bowl of ice cream, I feel a little nauseous. I will ask the doc at my 3 month appointment about this. Maybe not related at all.

My incisions are ok. Still red- 5 1inch incisions across my stomach above my belly button. I have been using mederma about once a day. It says I can use it more often, but find it hard to find the time ( I feel like I need it to dry a little first, because if I just put my shirt on it will wipe it off). I think and hope once the redness goes away, the scars won't be very noticeable.

Hope this helps anyone :)