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Digestive Health | Last Active: Sep 26, 2018 | Replies (3)

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@ethanmcconkey

Hi @sickvick welcome to Connect! Please note that I moved your message to the Digestive Health group (https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/digestive-gastrointestinal-problems/) so you can connect with others members talking about similar issues as you describe. I recommend following the group and browsing through the discussions. Here are a few to get you started:

- Failed Nissen w/gastroparesis & possible MALs https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/failed-nissen-wgastroparesis-possible-mals/
- Reversal of a fundoplication https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/reversal-of-a-fundoplication/
- Linx After Fundoplication? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/linx-after-fundoplication/

After all you've been through, I can imagine that you're afraid of food and of doctors. I'm glad you're friends are recommending you look into Mayo Clinic. Our experts work together in multi-disciplinary teams to find answers together with you. Here are the contact numbers for when you're ready to make the call to inquire: https://www.mayoclinic.org/appointments

SickVick, You mentioned how the list of foods you need to avoid has increased dramatically, what foods are you able to eat?

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Hi, Ethan! Thanks for answwring and directing me to those discussions. Seems I am not alone. Thanks for the number to Mayo, too. I have been researching it all day. The obvious bad foods have been eliminated for years... pizza, bologna, anything spicy or greasy, bananas, apples, bacon. It is so mysterious. A small cup of cereal and milk makes me really ill one day, but not the next (when I dare try it again). Chinese food is killer. I eat little things. Things I know I can swallow easily, since choking and things getting caught is an issue. Nilla wafers, puddings, crackers and cheese. Nibble in the morning, same for lunch, and usually eat half of what is on my plate, or some of it for dinner, which family refers to as bird food. Any overage causes immediate pain and bloating, with a violent followup in the bathroom. Instant salivating, sweating and wretching, putting pressure where it hurts, almost passing out. Sometimes it feels like poo is trying to come up my esophagus. I wobble and fall a lot. And I am so very weak. Most times I can't open store or car doors. And the pain when I bend over is bad. I have to lay down right away... to what seems as I am allowing things to go back into place. I have pain at the bottom of my heart daily... feels like heart pain... but passes when I lay down. I think that may be adhesions tugging at my heart. They have been removed before. So much more. I feel like I am whining... so sorry! I also have glaucoma and arthritis in both thumb joints. Scarletina at age 5... quarantined; excessive bleeding during tonsilectomy age 10; hytatitaform molar pregnancy age 29; gallstones almost gangrene; 5 lb. Mesenteric abdominal cyst; kidney stones. And now I am so thin that everything hurts. Even hugs hurt. Taking a bath hurts. Sit, stand, lay, squirm... that is me always trying to get comfort from the bone pain. I apologize again for rambling.