Post-Nissen Fundoplication Problems: What helps?
<p>I had a nissen wrap operation in 1999. I still have problems at night after about 4 hours of sleep. I've tried all kinds of drugs to help relieve the gas. Right now I am on 40 mg of pantoprazole in the morning before breakfast. Most of the time days are fine. I have problems being regular on bowl movements, so I have a high amt of gas from the meds I take to go number 2. At night is when I have real problems. Any kindred spirits out there?</p>
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How interesting! I’ve been googling and reading about functional medicine. I had never heard about it until today. Thanks for the posts!
Ask your primary care doctor if he or she can recommend someone. I think that what the previous person says could be true—about many functional doctors not being MDs. But my primary care doc recommended a functional/integrative MD at the University of MN Medical Center he knows and trusts. Actually I think even Mayo now has an integrative medicine department.
Yes Mayo has an "Integrative Medical Department".. So you see the semantics changes... Wording is everything and the patient must be informed.
It notes the following...:"Integrative Medicine (IM) is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapies."
Thank you for the info.
I looked but no doctor found. Will keep looking maybe have to do bigger city farther away from me.
How far are you from Minneapolis? Does University of ND have a medical center in Fargo or Grand Forks?
I’m about 8 hours from Minneapolis and 5 or six from Fargo. I will check for Fargo since I do have to go there in December.
Also I have appointment at Rochester Mayo in January so maybe I can check with them to see if I could get appointment with someone there.
have you seen a functional medicine doctor? They try to get to the root cause rather than dealing with every symptom like putting out fires
I select the doctors I go to by examining their schooling, their history in practice, and their accreditation by medical fellowships.. I do not go to medical practitioners who have been educated only in Chiropractic schools.
I clicked on Zaroga’s link. In my area there are 4 listed and 2 of them are MDs.
Since mine in August of 2018 I’ve had constant bloating. Occasionally Gas-X 250mg would somewhat work. But not not a great extent. I too had a gastric emptying study as well as multiple Ph tests, upper GI. Yet everything can back normal. I swallow more than usual due to the last manometry causing excessive gagging during the procedure and now I’m produce more gas and it keeps getting trapped, sometimes moving back up into my checks and shoulder area.
Have you had your GI also test for SIBO, you could get on Xifaxin and see if that works. It helped me for a little bit after the wrap, it’s been slightly over a year and the bloating keeps getting worse.