Hi Paula, One test down and one to go? Do you have the manometry scheduled yet? -Tim...
Hi Walt, The whole process is frustrating but hang in there. I can share my experience and you can decide if anything about it is meaningful to your situation. I suffered acid reflux for about 30...
Hi Walt, I had a follow-up barium swallow at about 10-weeks post-surgery. The results indicated no evidence of reflux. However, it did show esophageal dysmotility. The dystmotility is associated with...
Hi, I had a toupet on March 3rd and wondered at times if what I was experiencing was GERD. It was not and things are gradually settling down. I am almost 3-months post surgery and the recovery is...
Hi Paula, My surgery was on March 3rd--been almost 12 weeks. I had a large hernia with a large portion of my stomach above my diaphragm. It had bothered me for a number of years so I took my time and...
Hi Paula, I had a manometry completed before my surgery and it is done to measure the motility of the esophagus. The procedure lasted less than 15 minutes. The worse part of the test was the...
I had severe pain in the left shoulder that would start shortly after I ate for about the first 3 weeks post-surgery. The surgeon said about 10% of his patients experienced this pain for a few weeks...
I had numerous gall stones about 14 years ago and significant bile reflux. Bile is stored in the gall bladder and it was refluxing into my stomach and esophagus (hiatal hernia made the reflux into...
The gurgling sounds like what I experienced. Mine improved but it did take quite some time, -Tim...
My Toupet Fundoplication was done 8 weeks ago and my swallowing is just now starting to get back to normal. I had a lot of gurgling and still get just a little bit. It improved over time. The...
You can find a lot of post- Nissen diets online. The following link is an example of one such diet: http://www.oregonsurgical.com/pdfs/Nissen_Fundoplication_Diet.pdf...
I had very severe pain in left shoulder after surgery. This will happen from the gas used during surgery. Mine persisted for about three weeks after I ate--generally about 20 to 30 minutes after I...
Hi, I did not have a redo but my original surgery was a Toupet not a Nissen. I agree that receiving opinions from more than 1 surgeon is important. Before I settled on surgery, I spoke to 3 different...
I have been told, by a GI doctor and surgeon, that the PPIs work best if taken 20 to 30 minutes before you eat, -Tim...
I agree that you need a barium swallow and probably an endoscopy to look for and evaluate a hiatal hernia. I had a type 3 hiatal hernia (a large paraesophageal hernia). My barium swallow showed...
Do you mind sharing the name of the doctor who did your surgery and other information about the doctor's experience with NF? I had a large hernia repair with a Toupet Fundoplication. If I need a redo...
Steph, I agree with what others have said. If you are not walking, I encourage you to walk and walk a lot. Walking helps to relieve the gas pain and will generally make you feel better. The jaw pain...
I had similar surgery March 3rd and experienced symptoms that might have been esophageal spasms. Seemed like spasms followed by chest pain. This happened after eating and I experienced for several...
Hi Deb, I had a large paraesophageal hernia repaired and Toupet Fundoplication on March 3. My surgery took about 2 and 1/2 hours and I spent one night in the hospital. Everyone recovers at a...
Not sure what your recovery was like and how soon you started to eat normal. Is it possible that what you thought was acid reflux was not acid reflux but something that mimicked reflux? I had a...
PPIs need to be taken about 20-30 minutes before you eat to be effective. My doctor told me this and I was just listening to another doctor speak about how so many individuals that take PPIs do not...
MiJane, I did not face the same issue as you because I spoke to 3 surgeons and they agreed with my GI doctor that surgery was necessary in my case. I am not qualified to render an opinion as to what...
MiJane, Good luck with the appointment and let me know how it goes, -Tim...
MiJane, I am glad I did not hesitate to have the surgery. I found the following article, even though it is several years old very comforting. I read a lot of research and concluded that with an...
MiJane, To answer your questions: (1) My surgery was normal laprascopic (no robots). Five small incisions. (2) My surgeon used no mesh. He told me when I first met with him that the decision to use...
MiJane, I intended to mention that I drove about 1 and 1/2 hours for surgery. I opted to NOT have the surgery done locally and did the longer drive realizing that if I had post-surgical complications...
Hi MiJane, I did experience some of what you experienced--chest pains, trapped gas and belching. I ended up seeing a cardiologist last spring because the chest pain, at times, was severe. After an...
MiJane, I had a large PAH repaired on March 3, 2015. Tomorrow will mark 5 weeks post-op. Over the years a small hiatal hernia became progressively worse and I eventually ended up with a large PAH....
Peg, I received a copy of the written report from my barium swallow and it is the radiologist who described it as a abdominal stomach (portion of stomach below the diaphragm) and thoracic stomach...
Peg, The following article (pdf) is about repairs done at the Cleveland Clinic. I believe the procedure I had done was the same or similar to the procedure discussed in this article. It really is...
Peg, I had a large paraesophageal hernia repaired 23 days ago. A little background, I experience really bad acid reflux for about 30 years and about 5 years ago I stopped experiencing the acid reflux...