Question:
Has anyone experience (stenosis)?

Which does not allow your food to pass and the food get stuck.    — yb2lonely (posted on April 22, 2010)

April 23, 2010

   — Missmelinda2003

April 23, 2010
Yes, it's actually called a stricture, and it's fairly common. I had one beginning at about 4 weeks, and at my 6 week checkup, I described the symptoms to the PA, and she sent me to have an EGD to get it dilated. It is done in the outpatient surgical center, and they either give you conscious sedation or put you complete out, put a tube down your throat with a little balloon on the end, and insert the balloon into the stoma and blow it up and leave it for a few minutes to stretch the scar tissue out. Once that's done....you're fine. My whole procedure, from going into the surgical center to leaving, took about an hour. The actual dilation itself, took probably 6 minutes, and I wasn't aware of anything because I asked to be completely out (as I suffer from anxiety and have a massive gag reflex, and would have fought the tube if I was conscious).
   — Erica Alikchihoo