Re: Complications Years After Heller's Myotomy? STEVE..

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Steve-You really should seek a experienced surgeon to help make life

for you a little more tolerable.You dont have to be so

miserable..help is out there but you have to want it and by that

means getting with a specilaist who can make you better.Not fix you

100% but make life livable.

I dont know if you remember or not but my sons first surgery was a

screw up from a non experienced surgeon making him much worse as it

sounds you are.I then searched and found this group and then Dr

Rice.My son went through heck and back and was in ICU for 8 days!

But now after finally geting with someone who knew what the heck

they were doing...and he got fixed the right way, Hes gained over 50

pounds,6 or 7 inches and eats what he wants.Yes he has to drink,lay

inclined and has the sucky spasms but he is living life without

hating everyone around him for having this disease.

If a then 12 year old, could go through that and accept the fact one

Dr screwed up and he now needs more surgery, then maybe you need to

suck it up and do the same.Many people here have done many things be

it botox,dialations,surgery more than once or so on but they do it

and are better than how you are , and better than what they were.

My question is why? Why dont you seek help to get better?Why live

life like you are? Your not only angry with the Drs(which I so

understand that trust me)but your angry with everyone here.Seek help

to get better and live life the best you can with this disease.Dont

let it live your life!!!!

The choice is yours.....

Tonia-mom of who had to stay home from school today cause of

another spasm but still...........hes soooooooo happy to be better

than 2 years ago when pudding wouldnt go down

> >

> > Hi,

> > I had my Heller's Myotomy with Nissen Fundoplication in August

2003.

> I have had

> > relatively few problems since then, except for the occasional

> esophageal spasm and

> > occasional nausea (the bouts of nausea and dry heaving have

greatly

> reduced over time).

> > Of course, I still drink plenty of fluids when I eat. About five

> months ago, I started getting

> > what I thought was reflux. The pain has progressively gotten

worse,

> and I am now 15

> > weeks pregnant, so I thought it was pregnancy-related reflux.

The

> pain is at the base of

> > my sternum---very strong----kind of resembles spasms, but not

> really. It is a sharp

> > ache.

> >

> > Last week I was in so much pain! I was working, and in less

than 12

> hours time I took 30

> > Tums, a Prilosec, and a Zantac (the Prilosec and Zantac were

taken

> within two hours of

> > each other). I finally got some relief, but I didn't feel well

all

> day. I talked to my midwife

> > and explained to her what was going on, and I talked to a few of

my

> friends who are MDs

> > to get their thoughts. Some are at a loss (since they are not GI

> specialists, rather critical

> > care specialists), and others have suggested it could be a

> complication from my surgery--

> > --possibly my stomach is turning on itself? I don't know, they

> don't know. They don't

> > think it is reflux, and I have been referred to a GI

specialist. I

> was just wondering if

> > anyone else has had problems years after their surgery.

> >

> > I am kind of nervous when I think about the possibility of

having an

> upper endoscopy

> > while being pregnant---I don't want to hurt the babe.

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> >

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