Hi Songbird. I don't know about the spasms really but I still have food sticking in my throat once in awhile. Just this eve when I was eating it happened and I had to wait for it to go down and my...
Hi Songbird. I had the lap nissen on Aug. the 14th. I still have the lump in my throat and the feeling like it needs to be suctioned out. I know exactly what you're talking about. I too sing which is...
Hi uniquelyme. That is called a laproscopic nissen fundoplication. I had this surgery in Aug. together with a hiatal hernia repair. What the dr. did actually was pull my stomach out of my esophagus,...
Hello. Can anybody tell me, I've heard that once you have your gallbladder out a common side effect you might say is to gain a lot of weight. Has anybody had that happen? I don't know yet if my...
Hi everyone, I did fine over the holiday cuz of course I can't eat much anymore anyway. I couldn't take the Reglan that my surgeon prescribed for my stomach pain, obviously I was allergic to it. My...
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Hi ajc123, and welcome. First off you need to set up an app. with a GI and tell him or her whats going on. I think they can help you the most. It definitely sounds like you have GERD and panic...
I was prescribed Nexium back in '02 and those of you that are taking it that don't have a good ins. you know how expensive it is. So for about a yr. by GI gave me samples. Well once they were out, so...
Hi Rangel, i don't know if this will help you or not, but for many wks after surgery I wasn't really hungry at all either. I really think it's because there's so much swelling going on that's why...
Hi everyone, went to my surgeon this morn. and still don't really know any more. He said the barium swallow looked excellent and the gallbladder ultrasound showed that there might possibly be a...
Kitt, that is GREAT news about your sister. Hope everything continues to go okay. We're here for you. Hugs....
Kitt, praying for you and your family. Remember you're not alone, God's there to hold you and help you every step of they way. Hugs....
Hi, Allie. How much weight you lose depends on how well you can or can't eat due to how tight the wrap is. I could eat pretty well, by the end of the 3rd wk. I was eating whatever I wanted. I lost...
Hi got back from the dr. have to be at digestive health at 8:30 in the morn. for a barium swallow and a gallbladder ultrasound. Then back to see my dr. next Fri. He didn't really give me any ideas...
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Hi, 02Allie02, and welcome. I'm 27 and I had the lap nissen and hernia repair done on Aug. the 14th. I have had GERD for the last 8 yrs. and was on Nexium or Prilosec for all these yrs. It was not...
Hi everyone. I really don't know what's going on now. Yesterday eve. I took some Aleve for the pain on my left side, (no I haven't been to the store yet to buy some liquid motrin) and very shortly...
Thanks LdyJane, we don't have any on hand right now but I'll have to get some and try it. Sorry to hear about the new pain you're having, hope you can get it taken care of. I'll be thinking of you....
Happily-Wrapped, thanks for the post. I have tried Aleve and Ibuprofen and neither one has helped but I have not tried liquid motrin, maybe I'll have to give it a try. I'm gonna look up this...
Hi, Elaine. Thanks for answering my post. The pain isn't all the time but it is a lot of the time. It seems to be worse when I have trouble breathing. I don't know if you saw my earlier posts...
Hello, everyone! I've just been wondering today if all this pain I'm still having could maybe be my gallbladder. Does anyone have any idea? I'm nearly 3 mo. post-op and still having quite a bit of...
I did call the surgery clinic on Wed. and talked to the nurse, she said she'd talk to the dr. about it and get back with me on Fri. because he was out all day on Thurs. She called me back yesterday...
Thanks for responding, Janice. I will check with my dr. but I don't know if there's any point until I go in on Nov. 21 because he said he wouldn't do anything until 3 mo. post-op. I'm also still...
Hi, all! I have a question. I am now 9 1/2 wks. post-op and I'm am still having a lot of trouble getting my breath, I have to try to take such deep breaths that I make myself dizzy and it still fills...
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That's exactly the same kinds of stomach pains that I've been dealing with. When I told my surgeon about them he wasn't happy about it, said I shouldn't be having pain any more. He said the majority...
Hi, mugsy, I had the surgery done on Aug. 14. I've been on Nexium or Prilosec for the last 8 yrs. have been going to the same GI for that long. In 01 I had the motility test done as well as an...
Hello, everyone. I am now 7 1/2 wks post-op. I'm doing pretty good as far as no GERD but I went to see my surgeon on the 6 wk mark and he wasn't happy to hear about all the pain I'm still having all...
Hi, donut9. I am a 26 yr. old female and I had the lap nissen surgery on Aug. 14. I had been on Nexium and Prilosec OTC for the last 8 yrs. I had almost constant headaches. I didn't know that was a...
Hi Jules, and welcome to you! I also had my lap nissen on Aug. 14. I think I'm probably younger than most on here tho, cause I'm healing pretty fast, I feel very fortunate. I'm 26. I also had a...
It is a beautiful day here in sunny NE MS. I live close to Tupelo. It sure is nice after so much rain recently. We're going to visit my sister and 4 beautiful nephews this wkend. They live in south...
Hi and thanks. Yes I have some of what feels like heartburn which my dr. says is a spasm but what I am most concerned about is the liquid that's coming up, it doesn't come all the way up it feels...
I have talked to my surgeon and he thot it was a spasm. He prescribed Librax for me. I took it a couple times but it did not take care of the problem and the side effects were so bad that I couldn't...
I had this surgery together with my hiatal hernia being fixed too. I too had a very hard time getting a full deep breath for the first wk for sure, I had the surgery 3 wks ago last Thurs. so almost 3...
I have had the ph Bravo test, which is very painful and I hope I never have to go thru that again, I have had an upper GI or endoscopy test done twice already the last 1 being in Nov. of last year,...