Question:
8 weeks out, having extreme GERD

Is anyone else having this problem? I had GERD prior to surgery, but NOTHING like it is now! Thanks in advance for the info.    — jengrz (posted on January 14, 2003)

January 14, 2003
HI,, before WLS I had such acid reflux (gerd). I was living on Tums,, especially at night. My surgeon has me taking one Pepcid AC every morning, and I havent had nothing, its great. I can eat hot spicy stuff and no suffering. Good luck to you! (open RNY, 11/14/03)
   — Amy Hoffman

January 14, 2003
I HAD really bad GERD prior to surgery, but now it is completely gone. The drug I took before for my GERD was PROTONIX...if you want to get rid of your GERD, ask your doctor to prescribe it. It works beautifully. My surgeon told me that since surgery I'm no longer mechanically ABLE to reflux, so maybe you had a different surgery or my surgeon did something different to me. Hugs, Joy
   — [Deactivated Member]

January 14, 2003
Call your surgeon. A woman in my support group had really bad GERD symptoms a few weeks out of surgery and it turned out to be a stricture caused by adhesions, and she needed surgery to correct it. Like the others said, our pouches don't contain acid, so you shouldn't have GERD.
   — Michele C.

January 9, 2004
Hi, I am 8 weeks out and actually yes there still is a minimal amount of acid in your pouch and it isnt often one gets an acid build up after surgery but it DOES happen. As always recommended talk with your surgeon. I had GERD severe prior to surgery and at 7 weeks was doubled over with stomach pains due to that wee bit of acid (your digestive juices) swirling around in there. I was put on prevacid and carafate....for 2 weeks...prevacid is to help with controlling the acid and the carafate coats...I am off prevacid now but must continue the carafate for another month and the results are going very well. Never let anything you are feeling go for too long without being checked out. I hope this helps. Hugs~Jamie [email protected]
   — Jamie V.