Health

[the_bird]

I thought you had already learned how to supress your gag reflex, Dude?

 

[Yooper]

I thought you had already learned how to supress your gag reflex, Dude?

And how would you know that, bird?

Lorena

 

[SwAMi75]

Drinking the barium stuff was kinda nasty, but I never even thought about puking. The stuff will make you crap gravel, though. Remember that.

I was dreading the endo, though. It wound up getting cancelled and I never rescheduled.

 

[todd_k]

Just got home from my upper endoscopy. I'm feeling a little loopy but that's all. I have the rest of the day off but I'm not suppose to drive until 7:30pm. I was expecting them to tell me I have an ulcer but it is gastritis and a hiatal hernia. One thing I found strange was that I don't have to cut back on soda, coffee, or hot sauce. I have been cutting back on all of these anyway but I'm really happy about the hot sauce, I've used it once in about 3 months so it will be good to get my fix again!
I still have to continue my low-fat, low-grease diet which is ok, I've been eating a salad everyday but 3 days for lunch for 1 1/2 months. My problem is Friday/Saturday night when I go out for calzones or BBQ.

 

[delboy]

Started to have gastric problems (think it was the start of a hiatus hernia) after piling on the weight, decided enough was enough and lost almost twenty pounds, problem gone.

My brother in law had an op to stop gastric reflux (he had it bad), its the one that somebody else described were you can't vomit even if you want to.
He was overweight at the time and the docs had to open up the chest cavity through the ribs to get at it.
When he come round he was in agony, he was getting v. high doses of morphine but was still in agony for the best part of a week (at one point he wanted to jump out the window of the hospital to kill himself, thats how bad the pain was). He was later told that he could have slimmed down it could have been done by keyhole (was he p*ssed off or what). To compound matters they ended up infecting the wound with MRSA which destroyed a lot of tissue around the scar (has to wear a corset thing to keep things were they should be).
I guess the moral of the story is if you have to get an op like this, make sure you slim down first!!!!!!!