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Anyone fall into this category? Looking to connect with anyone who has experienced reoccurring hiatal hernias. I had my 1st repair during my sleeve sugery, then 2nd hiatal hernia repair in Dec 2014... now looks like I might be encountering #3 with the same symptoms occuring. What the heck, right?!

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Your post makes me nervous because when I go for my sleeve next month I'm also having a hiatal hernia repair. How does that work? Do they place a surgical mesh to patch it up? just curious. I know my father inlaw had a hiatal hernia repair last week and he wasn't allowed to do any sort of lifting for a month.

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I had a large hiatal hernia. I didn't know about it until after surgery.

They pry your stomach away from your diaphram & pull it back down into your abdominable cavity. Then they cut off the rim of the hiatus & stich it tighter together.

I must have had a hiiatal hernia since 2000 because every years since then, I had bronchitis every year, walking pneumonia one year, pertussis one year, or just constant coughing. One doctor told me I was asthmatic. I thought my lungs were just really bad although I have not smoked in over 30 years. Now I realize that my lungs & trachea were being seriously adversely affected by my part of my stomach being in my chest cavity instead of being in my abdomin. I have NO COUGH now. No more bronchitis. No more bad lungs!

On top of that, I AM LOSING WEIGHT!! Life is good right now...

If your hernia keeps coming back, I think that would be a scary thing. Good luck!

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I had one unbiblical one when I had my hysterectomy, an hiatal one that let loose and was probably as sick as I ever want to be in my life. And I will have another repaired during my surgery on March 2nd

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