Do any of you get pain when lifting objects??I get terrible pain in my epigastric area, and breast bone lifting the lightest objects......
Thanks Denise...
Can you eat what you want after, you heal from surgery??? Can you drink pop or alcohol... Can you eat vegatables without getting sick?? Do you still need medication?? Somebody please answer!!!...
Hi, I've been away for about three years. I still have gerd, and i'm considering surgery. Just wondering if anyone has had the surgery, and did it work /community/emoticons/smhair.gif ?...
I've had many of the same symptoms that you have. I was on nexium for 7 months. I finally went to the cleveland clinic. Doc put me on donnatal. I haven't had nexium in three days and feel pretty...
Did you know your test can be burned to a cd, and you can take them with you, when you visit a new md? went to cleveland clinic doc started me on donnatel.... doesnt seem to think I have gerd... It...
Does anyone have experience with the Mayo Clinic in Clevland????...
I know lots of people have taken nexium twice a day, but has anyone found any documentation, that it;s safe to take twicw a day. I f you google it says once a day, PDR says once a day, even...
So I went to md appt today toget results: Barium swallow normal (endo showed severe esophagitis, ct scan of abd. showed sliding hiatal hernia and a 4.8x3.4 cystic mass of the right iliac Fossa)...
I was on the phone first thing this am, and it was a nurse that called me, we went round and round on the phone. Appt. moved up to today at 1:50PM. I'm going to let md of scare tactics. If it's...
Hi burning inside have you been to a GI doc? test for gerd will help rule out cancer, and if it is gerd they can treat it. I'm not a doctor but it sounds like gerd to me. Good luck!...
It wasn't a tech. It was staff member from GI docs office who called to tell me, to let me know I have an abnormality with no details. Why not wait until my appt. on Thursday?...
are they in the business of just scaring people?...
I went for my barium swallow today and ultra sound of the abdomen. Felt happy to have test out of the way. While out shopping the cell phone rings, and it's the GI docs office. They called 4 mins....
Had barium swallow today. Glad that's over. No signs of strictures, no mention of hiatal hernia, and I forgot to ask, they keep ya kind of busy between position changes and swallowing the barium. I...
barium swallow postponed woke with stomach flu synptoms this am. had to postpone untill Monday darn it!...
I know food is a field now, I really miss pepsi. I get pain immediately when I try to drink it. Drank it for years and all of a suddden I can't. You should take the PPis under a doctors supervision,...
people can live on ensure, it's tube feeding. Sometimes I pullout the big guns and eat fast food. Big Macs. sometimes they make me sick and sometimes they don't....
droper, my acid reflux came on very sudden also. I've lost 12 lbs. since this all started i'm 5ft. 2 in. and am down to a hundred and two pounds. I drink ensure + it's easy on the stomach, and has...
redsam, My endo didn't show a hiatal hernia either. It turns out I have a sliding hiatal hernia which supposedly showed up in a ct scan of abdomen. Tomorrow I',m having a barium swallow, which I'm...
Endocinch_uses a sewing capsule attached to an endoscope to stitch the junction between the esophagus and stomach, narrowing the opening to prevent acid reflux. Plicator-is a device that is passed...
thanks Joy you're a big help, I'll be glad when we're all done and we know what is really going on. Thanks again...
My7pinecones, WHO ARE YOUR SURGEONS?? I'm taking names of gifted surgereons......
anyone have any trouble with gerd flareup or constipation after barium swallow? Tomorrow is my lucky day and I'm a little nervous>>>...
hi couchtater and chaz, haven't posted in a while. went to GI doc today and he finally ordered a barium swallow, and an ulatrasound of my pelvis. CT scan of abdomen showed a cystic like mass. Last GI...
has anyone experienced hairloss from nexium?...
Has anyone experienced hairloss while taking nexium or PPIs. I've been taking nexium about three months, and am noticing thin spots. my hair is normally very thick....
Hi Joy, and Chaz, I made appt. with a new doc. on the 23rd. they also use propofol for sedation hopefully they will order a barium swallow. Joy are you on solid food yet? still feelin' good?...
I was hoping my new doc would order a barium swallow for me but instead another endo which makes me cringe! anyone have a capsule endo? They say the problem with calsule is if there's a problem they...
chaz, I've only had an endo, colonoscopy, and ct of abdomen. came to florida after. seen doc here, who wants to do another endo using propofol. That's why I came to the forum. I'm scared of propofol...
Goodluck pinecone, I hope everything works out...
couchtater, no we didn't get snow too far south, bet our house in NY did. i have two states to pick from when it comes to having surgery. Could stop in Georgia on way home in May. I haven't had thsi...
alcie, don't beleive I hijacked anything! and who's being rude now?...
motox, thanks, but I don't think I could tolerate being scoped unsedated. I have severe esophagitis. I remeber when they scoped me I felt something hit my teeth. I remeber opening my eyes and being...
Joy do did you feel anything during procedure after they gave you the jackson drug? I'm in Flrida right now would love the name of doctor that you have. Did you have TIF? and how are you feeling? is...
Has anyone had propofol during an endoscopy?? I'm afraid after what happened to Michael Jackson... I know different circumstances but still scared!!...
has anyone had propofol during an endoscopy??...
burntslapup, not to scare you or anythigng, but when I was researching chest pain I camd accross an article that said an abdominal annuryism {can't spell} can cause cold feet} maybe you should get...
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