Hello. First post here. So....
I had a sleeve/hiatal hernia repair done on March 3rd-ish this year. Since the moment I woke up I had severe heartburn/GERD, whatever they call it, it sucks!! I stayed in the hospital 3 days extra because of the pain. They blamed the gas which I'm sure had a lot to do with it. When I got home it took a good month for that gas to exit from my system. My heartburn never went away. I've been waiting for things to "heal" and have been on many meds for it but nothing is working. Not elevating my head, diet, timing of eating, etc when I lay down I can feel it trickle up my throat. No puking, just a stream of gross. My throat feels like someone punched me in the throat, my esophagus is like a burning sharp pain, like a hot knife, and I can't quit hiccuping for the life of me. I wake up in the night gagging and coughing up stomach juice from my lungs, it's in my nose, and the taste is horrible. I mean HORRIBLE! Worse than when I puked up bile for a month straight years ago.
Anyways... I finally am seeing the actual surgeon that did my surgery, not his registered nurse, for the first time. I called over the weekend at my wits end. He wants me to come in this week on Thursday to talk about what we can do. Does anyone know what kind of things they do for this type of thing? Like the "go to." The internet just throws too much info at me. Lol. If I don't get something done I don't think I will have a throat or lungs left. I didn't have issues before the surgery. Now it's been since I woke up in the recovery room.
