So the surgeon said
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It was a weird day. i had to fill out like a dozen sheets of personal history for this doctor (who was in downtown Pittsburgh) only to have to repeat it to the nurse which took forever. And the actual doctor wasn't there so I had to see his partner (which was fine). But the long story short is, I would have to have another endoscopy and then they'll attach a Bravo probe to my esophagus which I suppose is better than the last time I had a ph study 20 years ago (which is naturally too old to be useful). It blows though because I have to be off GERD meds for two pain filled miserable weeks and the new probe instead of being a NG tube will be a tiny thing stitched with dissolvable sutures inside the esophagus that eventually just gets destroyed.
And if that's not bad enough I have to repeat the mamamotry study where they put a tube up your nose and down into your stomach and pull it out centimeter by centimeter testing the strength of the valve between your stomach and esophagus. It's beyond horrible. You can't swallow, you can't throw up. It's terrible terrible terrible.
And because of the gastric paresis, I'll have to have the valve between my stomach and small intestine botoxed to paralyze it so food will empty from the stomach faster because the surgery will prevent me from throwing up and since I have paresis, I vomit a lot.
Man...don't know what to do.
From there mom and I went to the casino. I won about 300$ so huzzah. And the buffet had it going on with prime rib, steak au pouivre and pumpkin ravioli.
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silvrethorn, rahirah & wildrider for the gifts.
It was a weird day. i had to fill out like a dozen sheets of personal history for this doctor (who was in downtown Pittsburgh) only to have to repeat it to the nurse which took forever. And the actual doctor wasn't there so I had to see his partner (which was fine). But the long story short is, I would have to have another endoscopy and then they'll attach a Bravo probe to my esophagus which I suppose is better than the last time I had a ph study 20 years ago (which is naturally too old to be useful). It blows though because I have to be off GERD meds for two pain filled miserable weeks and the new probe instead of being a NG tube will be a tiny thing stitched with dissolvable sutures inside the esophagus that eventually just gets destroyed.
And if that's not bad enough I have to repeat the mamamotry study where they put a tube up your nose and down into your stomach and pull it out centimeter by centimeter testing the strength of the valve between your stomach and esophagus. It's beyond horrible. You can't swallow, you can't throw up. It's terrible terrible terrible.
And because of the gastric paresis, I'll have to have the valve between my stomach and small intestine botoxed to paralyze it so food will empty from the stomach faster because the surgery will prevent me from throwing up and since I have paresis, I vomit a lot.
Man...don't know what to do.
From there mom and I went to the casino. I won about 300$ so huzzah. And the buffet had it going on with prime rib, steak au pouivre and pumpkin ravioli.
Thanks to
silvrethorn, rahirah & wildrider for the gifts. 
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