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Hi, My name is Dawn and I had a RNY on 16/06/2015 with Mr. Michael Hii at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

To cut a long story short I am a long time large volume GERD sufferer. I had 3 Nissen Fundopication operations with Mr. Peter Nottle. They all failed. The last one big time. I therefore ended up with no option but the RNY. I was 76.6 kgs before surgery and 62.2 kgs now..

I still have my good days and bad days. I found I can and do throw up sometimes to often

look forward to sharing with you all

Dawn

Albury NSW Australia

Hi Dawn I'm also going to see Dr Hii. I'm getting a revision from failed band to mini bypass. I live around half an hour from you, would love to hear your experiences.

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Hello, good to hear from you.. you are not that far away. Mr Hii is a wonderful surgeon.

I am again suffering GERD and I had a gastroscopy Monday, performed by Dr Adam Cichowitz in Wangaratta. I have another hiatus hernia and severe reflux esophagitis.. I see Dr Cichowitz on the 5th of r he next move for me. I am taking Nexium and it is not helping..

Dawn

Oh no you poor thing hope they can get it sorted soon.

Do you have much restriction?

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Hello

What do you mean by restriction? As in what sort of foods I can eat?

regards

Dawn

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Hi, My name is Dawn and I had a RNY on 16/06/2015 with Mr. Michael Hii at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

To cut a long story short I am a long time large volume GERD sufferer. I had 3 Nissen Fundopication operations with Mr. Peter Nottle. They all failed. The last one big time. I therefore ended up with no option but the RNY. I was 76.6 kgs before surgery and 62.2 kgs now..

I still have my good days and bad days. I found I can and do throw up sometimes to often

look forward to sharing with you all

Dawn

Albury NSW Australia

Hi Dawn I'm also going to see Dr Hii. I'm getting a revision from failed band to mini bypass. I live around half an hour from you, would love to hear your experiences.

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Hello, good to hear from you.. you are not that far away. Mr Hii is a wonderful surgeon.

I am again suffering GERD and I had a gastroscopy Monday, performed by Dr Adam Cichowitz in Wangaratta. I have another hiatus hernia and severe reflux esophagitis.. I see Dr Cichowitz on the 5th of r he next move for me. I am taking Nexium and it is not helping..

Dawn

Oh no you poor thing hope they can get it sorted soon.

Do you have much restriction?

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Hello

What do you mean by restriction? As in what sort of foods I can eat?

regards

Dawn

Yes and how about portion size?

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Hi, My name is Dawn and I had a RNY on 16/06/2015 with Mr. Michael Hii at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

To cut a long story short I am a long time large volume GERD sufferer. I had 3 Nissen Fundopication operations with Mr. Peter Nottle. They all failed. The last one big time. I therefore ended up with no option but the RNY. I was 76.6 kgs before surgery and 62.2 kgs now..

I still have my good days and bad days. I found I can and do throw up sometimes to often

look forward to sharing with you all

Dawn

Albury NSW Australia

Hi Dawn I'm also going to see Dr Hii. I'm getting a revision from failed band to mini bypass. I live around half an hour from you, would love to hear your experiences.

Sent from my SM-G900I using the BariatricPal App

Hello, good to hear from you.. you are not that far away. Mr Hii is a wonderful surgeon.

I am again suffering GERD and I had a gastroscopy Monday, performed by Dr Adam Cichowitz in Wangaratta. I have another hiatus hernia and severe reflux esophagitis.. I see Dr Cichowitz on the 5th of r he next move for me. I am taking Nexium and it is not helping..

Dawn

Oh no you poor thing hope they can get it sorted soon.

Do you have much restriction?

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Hello

What do you mean by restriction? As in what sort of foods I can eat?

regards

Dawn

Yes and how about portion size?

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I am pretty much unrestricted on foods except I do get dysphagia from bread, red meat and rice. v much much smaller than I used to eat. I find if I eat sweet things they do not agree, dumping syndrome has been an issue here.

When are you for surgery? Is at at Royal Melbourne?

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Hi, My name is Dawn and I had a RNY on 16/06/2015 with Mr. Michael Hii at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

To cut a long story short I am a long time large volume GERD sufferer. I had 3 Nissen Fundopication operations with Mr. Peter Nottle. They all failed. The last one big time. I therefore ended up with no option but the RNY. I was 76.6 kgs before surgery and 62.2 kgs now..

I still have my good days and bad days. I found I can and do throw up sometimes to often

look forward to sharing with you all

Dawn

Albury NSW Australia

Hi Dawn I'm also going to see Dr Hii. I'm getting a revision from failed band to mini bypass. I live around half an hour from you, would love to hear your experiences.

Sent from my SM-G900I using the BariatricPal App

Hello, good to hear from you.. you are not that far away. Mr Hii is a wonderful surgeon.

I am again suffering GERD and I had a gastroscopy Monday, performed by Dr Adam Cichowitz in Wangaratta. I have another hiatus hernia and severe reflux esophagitis.. I see Dr Cichowitz on the 5th of r he next move for me. I am taking Nexium and it is not helping..

Dawn

Oh no you poor thing hope they can get it sorted soon.

Do you have much restriction?

Sent from my SM-G900I using the BariatricPal App

Hello

What do you mean by restriction? As in what sort of foods I can eat?

regards

Dawn

Yes and how about portion size?

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I am pretty much unrestricted on foods except I do get dysphagia from bread, red meat and rice. v much much smaller than I used to eat. I find if I eat sweet things they do not agree, dumping syndrome has been an issue here.

When are you for surgery? Is at at Royal Melbourne?

Haven't got a date yet, public system so will only get a couple of weeks notice.

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Hi everyone! I'm also from Adelaide. No surgery date yet but am planning on an RNYGB with Justin Bessell, hopefully early in the NY. :)

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I see Mr Hii on the 20th of March at Royal Melbourne for discussion of a reconstruction of my r n y..I hope everyone is well.

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Hi all, I hope all is well. I will be having surgery soon, sometime in Nov. Mr Michael Huh will be performing the procedure. I'm from Melbourne. I hope all is well and would love to hear you all experiences [emoji4]

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TashMash25 did you have surgery yet? what about you RickyandCasey?

I go back to see Mr Hii on Monday

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