my surgery and acid reflux

Jan 22, 2013

When they did the upper GI as a pre-op test they found severe acid reflux up to my collar bones.  He said they didn't see a hernia.  Of course, the nurse that called said that he wants me to consider the bypass due to the reflux.  I scheduled a time to meet with him about it, and in the meantime I started looking into the posts on here concerning reflux.

I met with him on Friday about the surgery options and reflux.  I was pretty against doing the bypass.  I do NOT want my intestines re-routed,  I don't want to loose my pyloric valve, and I don't want to have mal-absorption.  It seems to be such a crap shoot as to who's reflux gets better and who's gets worse! 

He warned me that the best case scenario is that my reflux stays the same.  I currently take 20mg of Prilosec and have VERY little reflux symptoms at this point, and to tell the truth I don't watch what I'm eating to help the reflux or when I eat before I go to bed.  He said I may have to increase the dose which has little long term problems.  Or, it could get so bad that I have to revise to the bypass.  He said the revision from sleeve to bypass comes with its own complications.

He said he will do the sleeve, but wanted to warn me of what could happen.  He said there is a very low occurrence of cancer with the reflux and that was my #1 concern.  He did say they will look hard for a hernia, just in case that was causing the problem and didn't show up on the upper GI.  They are also going to add a few stitches to help prevent one later.  He does a 40f and I'm hoping since its on the larger side, it reduces the reflux.

 So, here we go.  My husband is scheduled for the sleeve surgery on Jan 28th and mine will most likely be in March or April. 

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