I just came from my upper GI (YUK) and they told me I had a hiatal hernia. They also said this may impact whether I have the surgery or not. Feeling very frustrated! Has anyone incurred this? TIA

I have a hiatal hernia as well - they plan to fix it suring surgery - no big deal according to my surgeon.

I just came from my upper GI (YUK) and they told me I had a hiatal hernia. They also said this may impact whether I have the surgery or not. Feeling very frustrated! Has anyone incurred this? TIA

Who is the "they" that told you that you had a hernia? Did they say it could prevent the surgey, or impact it? Either way don't worry too much. Just find a doctor that will repair the hernia and do the surgery at the same time.

I have a hiatal hernia as well - they plan to fix it suring surgery - no big deal according to my surgeon.

Yep...I have one too and my surgeon is going to fix it during my surgery tomorrow!!!

I just came from my upper GI (YUK) and they told me I had a hiatal hernia. They also said this may impact whether I have the surgery or not. Feeling very frustrated! Has anyone incurred this? TIA

I had a hernia too and they fixed it when they did my surgery. Just had mine done on 9/5/13.

"They" was the Dr who did the procedure. Thank you everyone - I now have a bit of hope!

I had one too. However mine could not be totally fixed. I'm part of the 5% of people who have some vein in the way..

I had one that was fixed during surgery. Good luck!

When I had my endoscopy they saw one but when my surgeon was doing my surgery it was nowhere to be found. I was told this is common in some cases. When they opened me up there was nothing to repair!

same here i had one diagnosed during my egd and was told that it would be fixed during the surgery

I had mine fixed during the sleeve surgery.

They didn't know I had one until they were doing my sleeve. Fixed it during surgery on 9/4/13

They didn't know I had one until they were doing my sleeve. Fixed it during surgery on 9/4/13

I had one too. The doctor fixed it during my surgery on Sept. 5th.

Any idea how long it lengthened the surgery time?

Any idea how long it lengthened the surgery time?

My surgeon says nearly 80% of his WLS patients have a hiatal hernia. If doing bypass, it isn't necessary to fix, but for VSG it is...however not a big deal in his book..mine didn't show up on upper GI, but I had a "decent size one" when they got in there, think it added about an additional 30 min toy surgery time

I had no idea I had one my surgeon just fixed when I was sleeved on the 9th and he told me about it after.