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10 days since the Nissan Fundoplycation
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10 days since the Nissan Fundoplycation
by katec, Feb 08, 2002 12:00AM
Hi,
I posted a message a few weeks ago, asking for comments from anyone who went through a fundoplycation. Thanks to everyone who posted, having a better idea of what to expect really helped to further prepare me.
The bandages are off, and my energy is up, but I still can't swallow liquids. I'm frustrated because I was expecting to not be eating solids, and really had no problem with that, but here I am 10 days later and the pain from sipping water is quite close to unbearable. My diet now consists of 100% juice popsicles, soy yogurt popsicles, and the occasional bit of applesauce.
I am aware that the surgery worked, before even with the popsicles I would have suffered from reflux and regurgation. Did anyone else experience the liquid problem?
I am certainly not regretting it, and I am fully aware that it has only been ten days, but did anyone else have this problem.
Thanks for your time!
Kate
I posted a message a few weeks ago, asking for comments from anyone who went through a fundoplycation. Thanks to everyone who posted, having a better idea of what to expect really helped to further prepare me.
The bandages are off, and my energy is up, but I still can't swallow liquids. I'm frustrated because I was expecting to not be eating solids, and really had no problem with that, but here I am 10 days later and the pain from sipping water is quite close to unbearable. My diet now consists of 100% juice popsicles, soy yogurt popsicles, and the occasional bit of applesauce.
I am aware that the surgery worked, before even with the popsicles I would have suffered from reflux and regurgation. Did anyone else experience the liquid problem?
I am certainly not regretting it, and I am fully aware that it has only been ten days, but did anyone else have this problem.
Thanks for your time!
Kate
I am now lactose intolerant. I used to have three bowls of cereal each morning. I now cannot drink milk. Friday night pizza is a thing of the past.
I 'bonk' very easy. If I have coffee on an empty stomach or get dehydrated, my hands shake, I get a cold sweat and I get dizzy.
I still cannot drink carbonated beverages. When I do, I get a sharp pain in my left shoulder (I'm told that this is a nervous 'chain reaction', where pressure in the stomach fires off some nerves that land in my shoulder)
I get pressure at the top of my stomach when it gets upset (often), particularly (but not limited to) when I have alcohol. I can have maybe two drinks, and then I get pressure from my stomach that ripples up my throat. It prevents me from breathing or speaking for about a second or two. Recently, a friend handed me some Sambuca - I took a sip and it seemed to stick at the top of my stomach and burn there. Wine brings a tough reaction, so I limit myself to vodka and cranberry juice.
If I do have those two drinks, I get the most hellish hangovers. As you might expect, I don't drink often now.
After I eat, I often feel very tired. Sometimes I need to go lie down after eating. This, along with the alcohol thing, takes any fun that there was in business dinners.
I cannot eat 2/3 of the portions that I used to be able to (even though my Dr. said this would not happen)
I am amazingly flatulent. It is not just embaressing - it is uncomfortable.
TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY THE ADVICE TO CHEW FOOD THOUROUGHLY AND IN SMALL MOUTHFULLS!! I twice had food get caught at my LES right after surgery - on the second occasion, I was on my way to the hospital when I got it loose.
All in all, I traded one set of manageable problems for a second set that is more difficult to manage. Sometimes food will cause a reaction, the next day it won't. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't get the surgery.
The pain in my shoulders and neck is entirelly gone (caused by the air/gas they pump your stomach up for the surgery)the surgical pain is gone, the incisions are tender, but the bandages are off, and they are healing perfectly.
I am having one "meal" a day, salad(haven't been able to eat that in two years!) I can now comfortably drink water.
The amazing thing is, it's only been two weeks, and I know it worked. I had raw carrots and lettuce yesterday (they used to be two of my worst trigger foods) and they stayed down, with no reflux or regurgation!
To "lil-ol-me", I'm 22 and slim, throughout the past two weeks I've lost about 10 pounds, but I'm now drinking soy protein drinks and going back to normal.
I was lactose-intolerant before all of this, so if that is a typical side-effect it won't effect me.
I've been told to avoid meat and bread for the first while, however I did try a bit of toast this morning and had no problems.
The thing about small bites and really chewing is very important, I too experienced alot of pain, just by swallowing a chunk of popsicle.
Thaanks again to everyone who has been posting suggestions and questions, its an amazing thing to feel like there's a bit of a support system from people who understand the symptoms!
Kate
I also have asthma, and worry about coughing after the surgery.
Any input welcome.
Thanks!
Cori
I hope you have better luck than I had!