This is in reply to Jesse’s question about recovering from fundoplication…
The gastroenterologist told me that the surgery is done laparoscopically through five small abdominal incisions. One of those is through the belly button. I’m going to ask my surgeon if indeed it is the belly button because when I had pelvic laparoscopy done before and they went through my belly button, it took forever to heal and was very painful.
The gastroenterologist and surgeon both said that the surgery is more involved than an appendectomy, but much less involved than a hysterectomy (of which I had the full abdominal version last year and had an extremely easy recovery). They said I’ll be in the hospital overnight and unable to work the day of and day after surgery. Since I work in IT and am mostly sitting in front of a computer all day, I’ll be able to go back “to work” the day after I get home. “To work” means that I’ll be required to not drive for a week, and I’ll have to work from my home computer, which is easy for me to do. I also won’t be short on help, as I work for the hospital where I will be having the surgery.
May 12, 2008 at 7:07 am |
Thank you so much for your answer.. i hope that everything’s ok tomorrow.. i hope it isn’t anything serious, but we’ll see.
thanks again, i wish you luck with yours!
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Jesse,
28 years old and already with gas tank issues
May 12, 2008 at 7:52 pm |
Well.. today i had my Manometry test.
In a nutshell, it was the most terrifing, painfull experience i’ve ever had, and i wish i never go through it again in my life, EVER.. well for a million bucks i would.
First i had this clear gel blown up my nose by a device, and then told to “sniff it in” which was impossible because its thick and its a lot!
Then they stuffed this rubber, marked tube down my nose and i could feel it going down into my throat and stomach.. it hurts like a mofo, and you can multiply your gag reflex by x100, and trust me, im not exagerating.
You can feel the tube in your throat, and your body’s natural instinct is to swallow because you feel like there’s something stuck in your throat.. to say the least.
Once its down and you start realizing what was done to you in those last 10 minutes, while they’re preparing everything.. and you feel like you’re inside an alien space ship being abducted and tested on.
The nurse said i needed to wait another 10 minutes because something that had to do with “getting it to body temperature” or might have been my imagination.. but she said something like that, its hard to pay attention when you have a tube the size of a water pipe taped to your nose, and gaging in the most wierd way you could imagine.
Those 10 minutes went by, and the test started, and to tell you the truth, for me.. it was like i had been inside that room for hours, but only 20 minutes had gone by, so anyway.. the test consists of a series of dry and wet swallows, and then the nurse at every 10 swallows or so, starts pulling the marked tube out your nose, placing it strategicly where the markers indicate.
after an hour, YES.. an HOUR, she stood me up (all that test was done while in bed completely horizontal) and 1/4 part of it was done sitting down in the same bed.
They pulled the tube out of my nose, they told me they would fax the results to my doc and i was free to go.
I could not believe what had just happend and ran as fast as i could out the hospital, (joke) i just walked out stunned and sad, but happy because my GERD days are over! …. apparently.
J.