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Yes, that's so interesting. I got my second surgery because of horrible reflux all the time (taking my PPI religiously and nevertheless had developed a benign lesion in the lower esophagus that had to be removed) and when someone asks I tell them I had reflux and hernia repair surgery. Well, technically I had. I had anti-reflux surgery and an axial hernia was repaired. Nobody was like "OMG, you shouldn't have surgery!" Everyone was like "Ok, if it's that bad it's the right decision to get surgery."

The information sheet given to patients at the hospital I got surgery at say that diet pop is ok as long as you stir out the bubbles. (Meh, that's what I loved not only about diet pop, carbonated Water tastes so much better, oh well...)