Re: Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy post op 18days

[Guest guest]

You've got to be careful with Rice.  It usually forms a clog especially right

after the HM.  Soups worked well for me post op.  Rice is still a problem

11months post op.  I think pasta or mashed potatoes works better as long as you

eat slowly.  The air feeling or trapped air feeling seems to be a normal thing

according to many on this forum per my last post to ask others about this. 

From: math229 <math229@...>

Subject: Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy post op 18days

achalasia

Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 9:20 AM

 

Hello, Like most of you I had trouble eating and drinking for more moths

than I care to remember. So on the 28th of October I had the pleasure to undergo

the Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy and I spent only one evening in post-op. Then

yesterday I had my first followup with my doctor at Fletcher in Burlington

VT. I voiced one concern that the last couple days after eating my small

portioned meals I felt blotted and expelled allot of gas. Was told this is

normal? After leaving the hospital we (my son and I) stopped for some dinner I

ate half a salmon fillet and some rice then it started,the urge to vomit. I

vomited like 6 more time on our 3 hour ride home. No food just clear liquid type

stuff.And this increased the chest pain and fears. today I will be talking to

the Doc again and we shall see.

It could be worse

[Guest guest]

I had Myotomy in 2009 and still can't eat rice, always gets stuck and end up

spitting out! I avoid it completely! Sad, because I love rice.

I would agree, try mashed potato's or pasta, and eat very slow!

, California

[Guest guest]

math229 wrote:

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> ... I ate half a salmon fillet and some rice then it started,the urge

> to vomit. I vomited like 6 more time on our 3 hour ride home.

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It could be a number of things such as esophagitis or maybe you had a

bit of the flu. It reminds of something about sea food though. I like

sea food. I also have a strong stomach. Salmon is hit or miss for me

though. Sometimes it is great. Other times I struggle to eat it. On

occasion salmon will give me the urge to vomit. It usually happens soon

after I start eating it and I don't think it has ever lead to me

actually vomiting. I don't know why that is but I do have something that

I wonder about, sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP).

STPP is put on a lot of sea food, even salmon. It acts as a preservative

and also helps keep water in the flesh and make it look lighter. You can

tell on scallops because they will look bleach compared to untreated

ones. People will think the treated sea food looks fresher than the

untreated food even though the treated food may be older and even past

the sell by date. Because it keeps more water in the flesh it also makes

it look like you are getting more and at equal price/pound stores can

charge more.

One reason that sea food can be hit or miss for taste is the STPP. STPP

has an alkaline chemical taste, think baking powder or baking soda.

Treated food can have an off alkaline taste. Some people are more

sensitive to alkaline tastes. Many people don't find the taste a problem.

STPP is on the US government's list of generally recognized as safe list

and most people are not going to have an issue with it. It is however a

bit of a skin and mucus membrane irritant. It has been reported that it

can even cause vomiting and esophageal burning with stronger doses

(MSDS). Again, most people are not going to have a problem but we are

not most people. I have said before that we need to watch things that

can irritate the esophagus. I would include STPP in that group. Our

esophagi can be already irritated and inflamed for a number of reasons.

If there already is a sensitive area in the esophagus and some STPP

salmon ends up just sitting against it, perhaps that could cause an urge

to vomit.

I am not saying that is what happened to you, but who knows.

notan

[Guest guest]

Good to know about not eating rice.

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than I care to remember. So on the 28th of October I had the pleasure to undergo

the Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy and I spent only one evening in post-op. Then

yesterday I had my first followup with my doctor at Fletcher in Burlington

VT. I voiced one concern that the last couple days after eating my small

portioned meals I felt blotted and expelled allot of gas. Was told this is

normal? After leaving the hospital we (my son and I) stopped for some dinner I

ate half a salmon fillet and some rice then it started,the urge to vomit. I

vomited like 6 more time on our 3 hour ride home. No food just clear liquid type

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[Guest guest]

had my myot. in sept. i have had a few bouts with feeling real over stuffed and

actually seeing my upper tummy all pooched out. if i eat soup doesnt happen. i

never have had gas in my life . I AM NOT KIDDING! and now i get gas. i am just

appalled! (not kidding here either) so it is a whole new world after my MYOT.

and i bet everyone has some things to add to this., i think it is because i

HAD   A. for a long time and did not know i had it. and i thought i was " normal "

when really my eating habits and the barfing, and my upper tummy pains, and my

spasms, which i thought were reflux (were actually spasms i thought i was having

heart attacks, had them for like 15 years that i can remember) i have to eat

very slowly and i realize that generally i am over eating. i have decided to

begin measuring what i eat.

[Guest guest]

Its Funny what we are able to except as normal or at-least for us. Not being

able to enjoy some thing is expected but having trouble with everything is what

we wait for before doing anything about it i would say is true for most. So here

I am same world different choices. Having the surgery set me back in a couple of

ways but I do feel it will unlock new choices (food)without all the drama.

Its nice to know others are listening.

[Guest guest]

Yes Kim, the same goes for me too!  I have to eat small portions and NOT over

eat or I will get sick.  It's okay cause I enjoy just being able to swallow

again, but bummer that I cannot eat anything anytime. 

 

Julee

From: Kim <kimellenbailey@...>

" achalasia " <achalasia >

Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:58 PM

Subject: Re: Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy post op 18days

 

had my myot. in sept. i have had a few bouts with feeling real over stuffed and

actually seeing my upper tummy all pooched out. if i eat soup doesnt happen. i

never have had gas in my life . I AM NOT KIDDING! and now i get gas. i am just

appalled! (not kidding here either) so it is a whole new world after my MYOT.

and i bet everyone has some things to add to this., i think it is because i

HAD   A. for a long time and did not know i had it. and i thought i was

" normal " when really my eating habits and the barfing, and my upper tummy pains,

and my spasms, which i thought were reflux (were actually spasms i thought i was

having heart attacks, had them for like 15 years that i can remember) i have to

eat very slowly and i realize that generally i am over eating. i have decided to

begin measuring what i eat.