Acid reflux AFTER Gastric bypass?

[Christina.Rose 287]

Has anyone else experienced GERD after the Gastric bypass? I got the bypass after my sleeve was causing my stomach acid to burn lesions in my esophagus. A year has gone by, but for the last few months I have been getting really bad heartburn again. I'm getting an endoscopy next week, but I can't seem to find anything about what this could be. The ironic thing, is that I was a smoker for years, but NOW I don't smoke and rarely drink, but my acid feels worse than when I was smoking etc. This happens if I eat or not, when I wake up sometimes, I can't seem to pinpoint a reason. Please let me know if anyone else has been through this.

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[catwoman7 10,973]

you can - but it's not common. For most people, bypass improves if not outright cures GERD - but unfortunately, there are a few that it doesn't work for.

[ReadingMochaMom4 6]

I'm sorry that you are having this issue.

My SIL has the sleeve, and she has had horrible issues with reflux. She never had it before even with her 3 pregnancies.

Before my surgery I had untreated Gerd for 9 years, they discovered it during the waiting period and put me on pepcid. It changed my life!

He even went in and had to repair a 2 or 3cm intrusion in my stomach BEFORE doing my RNY.

Well everything went great for 6 months, the GERD didn't return- but the loud, explosive (TMI) belching did. So I went back on pepcid and I take it daily.

I have heard that RNY has helped several people but for me, it has reduced the acid greatly but NOT eliminated it completely.

Good luck



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[2Bsmaller18 436]

I had mild reflux before bypass. Then a year after surgery I began to have what I thought was reflux again. It was almost like I heard not felt bubbling. Like carbonation when I hadn't eaten or drank anything. I switched surgeons for annual follow up and the new surgeon took a contrast x-ray and saw that I have a candy cane or hockey stick off of the pouch and that my pouch had stretched or at least was bigger than the normal despite me never eating more than a half cup of food in one sitting and feeling a lot of restriction. . I think when food or salvia goes into the candy cane and then moves into the pouch it creates that feeling. The new surgeon said some people will have reflux after surgery and I had never heard that from the first surgeon.