Hello Tomorrow it will be two weeks since the repair of my giant paraesophageal hernia and nissen fundoplication. I am feeling pretty good considering the difficulties I had in hospital with atrial...
Couchtater....interested in comment about swelling increasing and peaking around day 14. No one said much to me about that. Is it common?...
With starting on the full liquid diet two days ago and now five days post op. Hospital heart and lung unit gave me list of items for the diet but looking for actual recipes. Any good links? Feeling...
Hello all....today is Saturday and surgery was on Mondsy -came home Thursday afternoon. Finally sufficient energy to use my husbands's ipad. Surgery was about 2 1/2 hours long. Defect was larger than...
@ starryblu. I had to do alot of research to get much information about this condition. Considering I had absolutely no symptoms except an extremely low hemoglobin found during pre op testing for...
My surgery is scheduled for two days from now. Now the anxiety builds somewhat -- but I really want to just get it over with. My hernia is rather large (11 cm) and they will do Nissen as well. I've...
Thanks everyone - three days to go until surgery day. GULP. I just now want to just get it over with. Had preop chest xray, EKG, labs today. Doctor says because of size of PEH plan on hospital stay...
Thank you very much for the information and support all. I am now only five days from surgery. My work schedule kept me very busy this last few weeks and I could not visit this site to read the...
I'm new here and recently been diagnosed with a very large paraesophageal hernia. No symptoms brought it to the attention of the physicians until I was scheduled for unrelated minor outpatient...