Update: from Louisiana...first post op message

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Hi!

I made it through the Heller's and the fundoplication quite well, that

was about 9 days ago. Thanks for all your encouragement! It WAS worth

it.

I am amazed at how little pain there was after the surgery! I am a big

chicken when it comes to pain and I stopped taking the pain meds by

midnight of the same day. I am faithfully following the gradual liquid

to soft food diet.

I was going to ask if any of you STILL experience the spasms in the

esophagus *after* the surgery, but on the recent posts (and some archive

messages) I have just read I see that most of you do. I guess it is

something I have to live with and that's ok because if I take a Gas-X

strip *or* the Levsin under the tongue that was prescibed - the pain

goes away within a few minutes. I just thought that those pains would be

gone. I mostly experience it around 3 a.m.....so it wakes me up big

time!

I go to my post op appointment on Thursday - May 17th. I'll ask the Dr.

about that and maybe look up more of the archives of this group.

Again, thanks for all of your encouragement and sharing your experiences

about the surgery for achalasia.....I will definitely keep up with this

group!..

.. from Louisiana