Chest pain...

Neil79 said:
I believe so yes, waiting for the top guru to put me forward and talk me through it
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You wont look back. Had mine a year gone July and changed my life.

Difficult to eat now - Have to eat slowly and not as much, but thats no bad thing. Better than what it was like with the acid.
 
BDEE said:
You wont look back. Had mine a year gone July and changed my life.

Difficult to eat now - Have to eat slowly and not as much, but thats no bad thing. Better than what it was like with the acid.
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So I won't be able to have things like Burger kings? or chinese dinners

Lethagized said:
Ask them if you can grab a copy of the video taken neil :D Good luck with the op dude.
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Want a gif? :D

Thanks :)
 
OP: I had a Nissen Fundopulation operation as my stomach valve was broken.
I used to get heartburn very very badly every day for anything and everything. As it is a pain nobody sees my housemates thought I was making it up!! They were ****s though.

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OpenToSuggestions said:
OP: I had a Niseen Fundopulation operation as my stomach valve was broken.
I used to get heartburn very very badly every day for anything and everything. As it is a pain nobody sees my housemates thought I was making it up!! They were ****s though.
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Let me guess, they gave you more and more pills sometimes twice-three times a day?
 
Neil79 said:
Let me guess, they gave you more and more pills sometimes twice-three times a day?
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I ended up on some big Lansoprazole tablets (30mg iirc!). One a day was more than enough. The problem is that these tablets did not have an immediate effect as they slow acid production, so I would forget to take the tablets as I felt fine, but a day or two later I would get some extremely painful burning. It really was awful.
A co-worker who also takes these tablets has major issues with the runs but I never had any issues at all.

The surgeon said that the tablets are kind of like powerful Zantac tablets, as they inhibit the acid production rather than the Gaviscon effect of just taming the acid down a little that was already there.
He then said that the Lansoprazole had shown signs of stomach cancer in testing on rats, but I would end up with throat cancer from the stomach acid giving it a daily battering. I had been on Lansoprazole for 3-4 years at the time with zero side effects - In fact when on them I would never get heartburn.

Off the medication though.....very very painful.

The doctors tried to fob it off on being overweight, but I had had issues with the acid since I was in primary school and I was super skinny back then, then it went away and came back badly when I was 18. I missed out on enjoying my Fresher's week as I kept feeling sick, which resulted in quite a difficult time in my first University year as people thought I just did not want to spend time with them.

I have had a wire down my throat that came out my nose with an ethernet socket on the end, attached to what looks like a USB modem for 24 hours! This measured the acid. I also had a camera down my throat.
I got a 2-4-1 operation. The operation was to fix the broken valve that leaked acid as it was weak. I also had one huge hiatus hernia!
I now only get heartburn if I eat/drink rubbish, and even then it is a mere tickle compared to what it was before! I do not take medication for heartburn at all anymore :). One issue though is trapped wind, as it is now much harder to burp, so fizzy drinks are uncomfortable as they make their way to the other end! Don't gobble your food or have fizzy drinks and you will live just like you never ever had an issue :D.

So all in all, a nasty condition, but if your valve is broken (I have never had any ulcers) then it is 99% fixable!




But trust me, there is worse. I had a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Pilonidal Sinus at age 15. Lovely!
 
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I take 30MG lansoprazole twice a day so that's 60mg, plus gavison + 150MG raniditine! and i get some awful side effects sometimes :(. We both share the same pain, different cause as my HH is very small but my gullet has been damaged on occasion + the stomach ulcers. Can't wait to get this done!.

Thanks for sharing your story fella!
 
Neil79 said:
I take 30MG lansoprazole twice a day so that's 60mg, plus gavison + 150MG raniditine! and i get some awful side effects sometimes :(. We both share the same pain, different cause as my HH is very small but my gullet has been damaged on occasion + the stomach ulcers. Can't wait to get this done!.

Thanks for sharing your story fella!
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Anytime. Sorry that I kept editting it as you were writing your post :p.
Any questions feel free to PM me!

Post operation I asked the surgeon if I had any long lasting damage to my gullet and he said no :).
The operation was done via keyhole surgery and the day after I felt like a 100 year old. Just 3 days after the operation though and I could move around OK, a day or two more and I could actually relax!
I did not take any pain medication at home as I thought that if I moved and it hurt that was a sign not to move in that particular way!
A few hours after the operation I was walking (more staggering like a pensioner who is about to die) around and the surgeon asked if I had actually had an operation that day :p.

I have heartburn tonight due to the 12 inch Subway I destroyed earlier followed by lots of refillable fizzy-as-**** diet coke.
The heartburn is a slight niggle though rather than me suddenly shouting obscene words like I used to when it used to burn!

What side effects do you get?
 
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Your's sounds very acute so I'm sure it's something more fundamental.

However for me, fatty food + water = heart burn, very bad heart burn. I think it's because the fat, and the acid produced to digest the fat concentrates at the top of my stomach. It's made an "appearance" on occasions and it's serious stuff :(

Taking antacids actually makes it worse in the long-run due to acid re-flux. I've stopped taking them for a while and don't get it nearly as often.
 
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