HM done 4/25, slowly emptying E still

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My HM was done on 4/25. I had it done laproscopicly although initially I was

going to have it done endoscopicly. My Esophagus was a bit worse than what they

thought and has taken on the lovely sigmoid shape so that ruled me out of that

study.

Once it was done the Dr. told me I had one of the strongest LES he has ever had

to work on but that he did a very long myotomy however when he got in there the

sigmoid shape was much worse than he thought. All my post op barium swallows

are showing a delay on emptying of a few minutes.

I'm feeling a bit discouraged because I'm afraid the next step is an E-ectomy

however he has told me that many times the E will start to shrink back to a more

normal size as long as we take our time letting it heal. Has anyone had

experience with this? Or did it just work right off?

I knew there was a possibility it wouldn't work because of this board, but no

offense, I really wasn't hoping to join that club. Keeping my fingers crossed

that after another week or so on liquids things will start going down much

faster.

Please excuse the spelling, I can't sleep or spell.

in Maine