I just got home from my endoscopy. The Dr found a hiatal hernia & said it would be fixed when I get banded. Anyone else have to have one fixed? How was your recovery?

I just got home from my endoscopy. The Dr found a hiatal hernia & said it would be fixed when I get banded. Anyone else have to have one fixed? How was your recovery?

There are many people here who have had it done. Search the Forums for many threads about it. It's a non-event, and the recovery coincides with recovery from band surgery. The major benefit of having a hiatal hernia repaired during band surgery is it (generally) eliminates heartburn and reflux from happening. Since mine was repaired during my surgery, I no longer get any reflux symptoms.

Dave

They found mine when they opened me up, even though they looked for one when they did my Upper GI and didn't find it. I can't say whether it affected my recovery, since I've only had this surgery once but it does seem like my recuperation was very similar to what people without hernias say.

I've had MUCH less heartburn or reflux since the surgery. If I woke up at night I had to keep Tums by my bed because I'd always have wicked heartburn- no longer a problem! I think I've taken Tums twice in the past 6 weeks... total!

i was just banded yesterday and my surgoen has you sign a form stating if he finds one it's ok to fix it. I never had heart burn or acid reflux, but when I got out of surgery he said he had to repair a small one. No way of me really knowing about it cuz i was sleep. LOL! from what i can tell from the boards it's not that uncommon.

Thank you for your responses. I had a little voice inside of my head telling me something is causing my nightly heart burn. I'm glad the Dr wil fix it.