Appointment with surgeon tomorrow. Nervous!

My nerves are up for an appointment I have with the surgeon tomorrow. I've been dealing with acid reflux off and on since about January. In March around my 6 month post op time I started feeling alot of esophageal swelling so my surgeon had me up my PPI dose to twice a day. Everything was going good until about 4 days ago when the swelling feeling in my esophagus returned with a vengeance. When I woke up with some upper left abdominal pain today that only got worse I called my Surgeons office and they want me in tomorrow morning. He's in surgery all day today so tomorrow was the best they could do. Along with the swelling feeling, i feel like I have to swallow hard and multiple times to get it clear and I've been hiccuping/ burping more than normal. My stomach has also been making a lot more gurgling noises then normal. Can acid reflux really cause all of this? I did have acid reflux prior to my VSG and it was well controlled with just one PPI a day or every other day even. I'm hoping their will be an easy solution to this and that I won't need revision to RNY.

I'm very sorry you're going through this experience. I hope you get good answers tomorrow.

Best of luck wished for you at your appointment today, Lesley. I am still taking a 1 a day omeperazole and think it has really helped keep the reflux away. I need to schedule an apt with my primary physician and see if they want me to stay on the dose after my 6 months surgiversary passes, which will be May 29th. I had severe GERD and acid reflux during my banded years and never want to get back to that place again. :(

I hate to read about people who are suffering :(

I have pretty nasty acid reflux, but it's very controllable, I'm using protonix (pantaprozole) 40 MG and I really only have to take it twice a week. MAYBE 3 times.

Do you have a gallbladder? (The pain is on the wrong side, but gallbladder pain can migrate).

I just got back from the Surgeons and they have an Upper GI scheduled for Tomorrow morning. He said more than likely I will need and EGD done also but they wanted to check the Upper GI first. I do still have my gallbladder. Other than the constant swelling feeling, the last two days I feel like I'm just radiating heat. Slight temp at the docs (99.4) but they didn't seem to concerned about that. Fingers crossed it all goes well.

The EGD is a nice nap. Good luck!

I'm hoping they can get it scheduled ASAP. This swelling feeling is so uncomfortable.

I am glad you're appointment went well. I read a few posts of folks where most ppis failed but Dexliant worked.