stricture? doctor to evaluate?
Normally a stricture involves the inability to eat or drink anything. Vomiting foods and liquids just eaten are typical. I know one guy in one of my support groups "looked like hell" at a meeting. He spoke about not being able to eat anything and extreme difficulty drinking fluids. We ALL told him to call the surgeon about a stricture. Guess what? That exactly what he had. It took 3 dialiations to resolve this issue. He was about 6-7 mo. post op. He also came to another support group a few mo. ago when he was a little over 2 yrs. post op. He spoke of blood in his stool, and gut aches. Again, he was told by 99% the post ops there to have his surgeon check for ulcers. He did have an ulcer, but his treatment regimine wasn't known. Minor ulcer issues may be treated with Carafate, others need surgery to resolve. If the issue doesn't improve over the weekend, I would make an appt. with a doc or surgeon you know is experienced with post ops. You may have a twisted intestine or other issues. DAVE
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I had 3 dilations in November of this year. The first one my stoma was completely closed and my wonderful surgeon re-opened it with balloon dilation. I had another one week later and yet another 2 weeks later. Currently I had to have a feeding tube placed because of my inability to eat anything. It is only a temporary glitch. I am 10 weeks post-op and have lost over 100 pounds already. Not in a healthy way, but still a loss.
I had an upper GI 2 weeks ago. It wasn't bad, except for the throwing up the barium part.
Call your surgeon if you have any concerns about your eating.
Do what you need to do to stay on a helthy course.
I have not personally heard of people getting general anesthesia just for an EGD (there are a lot of potential complications from it and it is simply not worth the risk unless it is necessary), but the "twilight" sedation still makes you (or does me, anyway) completely unaware of what they are doing.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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