TIF and Hiatal Hernia surgery and recovery (day 246)

General update and information, even for people new to my channel.

[@6382smile]

Thank you sooo much for documenting your experience on the TIF. I’m in my research phase and trying to decide if I need it. I will meet the specialist on Monday and I have all my questions ready! This is the 2nd video of yours that I caught. I think the first I saw of yours was around the 10 week mark. Then I jumped to end wanting to hear a good update. Bless you on your good recovery status. You have come a long was it seems. I will be looking into more of your videos. Again, thank you!

[@sidhenry6422]

Wow thats crazy u at 95 percent

[@amalimy]

Can you plz tell me the medications that you are taking actually and make you feel better plz

[@frank_umm]

The only medication I am taking that is for my reflux symptoms is Amitriptyline which is for my parasympathetic nervous system. However, this med is specific for me and my situation. I am not a doc or expert so can't say anyone should take this. Talk with your doc.

[@amalimy]

@@frank_umm thank you for your Replay surely i will not take any med without the view of my doc

[@akashsidhu8695]

Bro I have loss of appetite bloating and lots of gas in my stomach ... I have hiatel hernia it will be ok all symptoms after surgery

[@KLI22]

Any excessive gas symptoms as I read that this can be an issue in some?

[@frank_umm]

I "did" have gas but that went away after the first few months. I had forgotten about that. The gas was terrible at first. Glad it went away. No more than usual gas now for me. Biggest issue was flatulence.

[@wanamingo2225]

Has Tiff helped you with your LPR symptoms?

[@frank_umm]

Yes. Most all my symptoms are 95% gone. The lpr is too. Very rare to have any symptoms. Usually I might have symptoms a normal person might have... which are caused by a triggered food which one would expect. So, I am feeling pretty normal. Not perfect but pretty close and I'm happy with it

[@wanamingo2225]

@@frank_umm Thanks for the reply. Ive been dealing with relux for a few years now, most of my bothersome symptoms were respiartory and sinus related. ive reduced the severity of my symptoms through life style changes but they are still always there in some form and sometimes they flare up really bad still. im considering getting TIFF so that i can feel normal again. Its a tough decsion though becuase as you said youll never be truly back to normal. Do you think its worth it to get the procedure if ive been able to reduce the severity by quite a bit thouigh life style changes? im also only 20 years old and the thought of getting surgery so young that may result in many further surgery down the line is scary.

[@frank_umm]

​@@wanamingo2225 I wish I could tell you that the TIF is a miracle surgery, but I can’t. However, I can say that as of right now, it has made a major beneficial/positive impact on my life. I do think that I feel normal as I possibly can, given my circumstances and situation. And, given the fact that I felt so awful and had so many symptoms a great majority of every single day that passed, I do feel like the procedure was worth it and I would do it over again if I had to if it meant that I could feel the normalcy I feel now. I am certainly not in my 20s, and I think I mentioned in one of my videos a long time ago to try everything possible to change your lifestyle in order to keep things under control and avoid surgery, but, if you have already done so and are at a point where you are still getting symptoms a good majority of your day and the severity is increased when you do get a flare up, that is hard. I think I felt the same, in that I made significant dietary and lifestyle changes… at least I thought I did… and although I felt better, I still was very much like you and felt the flare ups were ruining my life. The fact that I had symptoms so frequently two were just difficult to stomach every single day. Not feeling normal and thinking I could even go to a barbecue and have normal food that everybody else was having was just life altering. Although I could take my own food or avoid certain things, at least in this example, it was not just this of course but the fact that the symptoms were so frequent every day and even a minor slip up on a dietary issue would cause symptoms and these would linger for long periods of time. Now, when I have symptoms they are gone relatively soon. I do feel like I am a relatively normal person that ate something they shouldn't have and had to pop a couple tums or rolaids in order to stop the symptoms. My wife has the same problem and she does not comment to my knowledge have a hernia or other issues with acid reflux. I'd say of course she like many others is a ”normal person” who just has symptoms because she ate something she shouldn't at a time she shouldn't. I now feel much like this. Again, not perfect but I feel as close to perfect as possible. I do miss eating some of the things that I used to, but as time has passed, I have craved those things far less often and have actually forgotten about then much of the time at this point. so although I wish I could tell you that you should move One Direction or another, I just cannot. Again, I am not a doctor and cannot give you medical advice of course but for me, the procedure seemed to have worked. Whether this is something that is effective for the long haul, I am not sure. Will I have to go through future surgeries, take additional medications, I am not sure. But right now, in this moment, I am OK! And, when the symptoms of reflux were at their worst, I would have given my left arm just to feel “OK”. so, I better get the saw out and cut my arm off because I do feel OK. not sure if this will be helpful but I just thought I would provide my thoughts. Good luck in your journey, please feel free to reach out with more questions if you have them. If you'd like, we can talk further outside of KZbin. Just let me know when we can exchange contact information

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[@RandomPerson-yc4vm]

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