Bariatricwarrior

I am 2 month post op this surgery and doing wonderful!!!!!

I know this post is old but I'm scheduled to have this surgery July 5th! I'm beyond miserable and had the modified duodenal switch January of this year. The same surgeon who did my weightloss surgery is doing my upcoming surgery.

Wow! I’m so glad to hear this worked for you! Could you share the results? How bad was your GERD? Are you off all PPI’s now?

I know this is a year plus after the original post but I have had the ligament wrap done . It is amazing!

I sent you an email with my phone number. Please text if you get the chance. I’m seeing 3 doctors in the next 2 weeks and thought we could share research!

I saw this webpage for Dr. Elias Darido, who appears to be very knowledgeable about the sleeve and says that in many cases a hernia repair alone will stop the reflux. He will do virtual consults online. However, I have not yet found anyone who has actually seen him as a patient, so I don't actually know much about him.
https://houstonsleevesurgeon.com/category/acid-reflux-and-heartburn/

I also found out that Dr. Keshishian, who I know is pretty well known in the WLS world, has experience with repairing hernias after sleeves:
https://www.dssurgery.com/laparoscopic-hiatal-hernia-repair/

I am so glad that you mentioned that Dr. Jossart is experienced in dealing with this issue. I will need to look into that. Did you have to make an appointment with his office staff to talk to him?
I am sorry that you are suffering with these issues too, but I am also glad that you are here and talking about what you have learned. It is so nice to hear from someone else who is interested in this topic and taking action to try to figure it out. This is such a difficult problem because it seems like there aren't a ton of people who have dealt with it so you feel kind of alone struggling to find help with a complicated problem that even many doctors don't seem to understand very well. To be honest, I desperately wish that I had never had the sleeve, because I didn't understand at the time what trouble it could lead to, and I NEVER wanted a bypass under any circumstance. I wish I had made it more clear to my doctor at the time that I did not consider the bypass an option and maybe then she would not have done the sleeve.

Here are a couple of other leads that I have found that you might want to check into:

Dr. Kenneth J. Chang at UC Irvine is doing research into an experimental method of controlling GERD with an endoscopic procedure that can be done post-sleeve.
https://www.ucihealth.org/find-a-doctor/c/kenneth-chang
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6133678/

Dr. Olaya I Brewer Gutierrez at Johns Hopkins is apparently close to starting a clinical trial using a similar endoscopic procedure:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04771247