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Its been a few years since I have been on here why are all the posts so old?

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Hello all, I am in desperate need of information, suggestions, remedies. I had the sleeve in 2010. Last week I saw a colon digestive Dr, for stomach pains. I am always self-conconious about my stomach...anyway the Dr perform a procedure that basically stuck a tube down my throat to observe. Okay, I got two weeks later for a follow up, he tells me my esophagus is that of a 90 year out. I am 46. I have always had extreme heartburn, and took prilosecs for six years faithfully up until last week. He said is essence food is getting stuck in my esophagus!!!! I don't have any pain never would have known this unless he told me, however in retrospect; if I eat to much I will spit up a little of the food. I am nervous, scared and open to honest suggestions, remedies, has anyone else experienced this, if so what was done. In essence, he also said when this occurs it increases the chances of throat cancer, although very slim. He told me to stop the prilosec two months on two months off. I stopped altogether and have been researching home remedies such as ginger tea, aloe vera, baking soda, they have lessened the heartburn somewhat... Any suggestions? Sincerely, I am hopeful.

Greetings! I'm a newby. I'm just wrapping up the final bits before I'm approved for surgery. I'm very nervous and my anxiety is running high. What does everyone do to cope with this? I have to admit, I'm more than a little nervous.

New to this world and looking forward to my first doctor visit @ the end of this month =) I've been a big girl most of my life and now it is time for a change. BTW I love reading everyone's story from beginning to end.

i had vsg 6/6/16 with hernia repair/did great first month then started having mid upper gastric pain and burning all the time/unable to eat any meats they get stuck after 2 very small baby spoon bites and come back up/saw my surg about the pain and burning had ct and another ugi they were normal/ was told i am eating to fast and i am not/was told im eating to much have not had food in 3.5 weeks now/and was told im not losing weight like his others pts/ive lost 33 lbs was told 40-50 lbs should be gone by now/im getting my water in but only 30 g of protein from a shake cause its all i can tolerate due to the pain/water gaives me pain/what do i do/i cant live with no nutrition ,i am in pain all the time,i did see my ct report and it did say at the top of page moderate hiatal hernia/when i questioned my surg about this he said it was just swelling/im in the med field and i know that is a flat out lie///HELP

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I am new to this, so I am not sure if this is the right site that I have to be on for the support group