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RNY does cure - or at least greatly improves - GERD for most people, but not everyone. Mine came back after two years - but it's not as bad as it was pre-surgery.

Interesting because my experience is different. I am 15 years post RNY:

1. I feel my pouch every time I eat. It's very obviously behind my sternum and nowhere near my navel. I can absolutely also tell when my food has moved into my intestine. None of this was the case before surgery.
2. Vomiting is so easy. There is no bile, just whatever I ate or drank. There is no retching, it's just posseting like a baby.
3. No change in urinary habits, but very obvious poop changes because fat malabsorption is still prevalent.

The differences are very interesting.

I was thinking about your post today and it reminded me of something. You may be able to put your years of drinking diet coke to work in your favour.

One of the hardest things for me post WLS was developing good habits for getting enough fluid. One of the tricks that helped me is to re-use commercial beverage bottles with screw-on lids (e.g. diet coke bottles) instead of "water bottles" for cold liquids. I drink them more quickly and automatically. I think this is due to years of unconsciously sipping on diet sodas. Liquids in glasses tend to warm up, evaporate, and collect dust more quickly. I have tried using reusable water bottles, but I have found it difficult to develop a habit of drinking automatically from them. Plus, they smell funky after a while. And I find thermoses a bit intimidating (always afraid I'll break them.) So I just reuse ordinary beverage bottles lots and lots of times.

I've seen commercial beverages (fancy teas) in metal bottles with screw-on lids. Next time I run across them, I'll get one and see if it can fool my hand into thinking it's a diet coke. They would last indefinitely, which is even better for the environment.