6 weeks postoperative

Feb 14, 2012

 All I have to say is *you* need to be your own medical advocate. 

Im really angry right now. Ever sense my RNY I have had non stop burping issues. Anywhere from 30-80 times an hour. And always when I ate or drank anything. Also as time went on, there was less and less I could actually eat on a mushy diet.16oz of liquid a day was pretty much tops, and it took *all day* to go down.

My doctor ordered an Upper GI. The barium went nowhere. So they told me I had GERD. 

Oh heck no. GERD *hurts* it feels like a heart attack and it wakes you up at 0200 in tears. I know what GERD is.

I feel like I had to get snotty to be heard, but I did get referred to a gastro doc for an endoscopic procedure. At first it felt like I was being blown off. "Why did you get the bypass? Glucophagehas been shown to help people like you." As if I hadn't already tried that!

So anyway, results. Your anastomoses is supposed to be 12-15mm wide. Mine is ~2-3mm. There was actually a pill from 12 hours before still in my stomach trying to dissolve itself to be small enough to pass through. No pain, a little vomiting, no NSAIDs, no cheating on allowed foods. This is a pretty normal post op issue. Be it sutures that were too tight, scar tissue or just restrictive healing it happens. 

Just thank goodness I wasn't willing to wait a "little while more" to see if it would clear on its own. Hospital trip tomorrow to stretch it out and hopefully fix for a while. 

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