How did you feel immediately after surgery?

[phazer08 15]

I had most of what everyone else mentioned with this thrown in: esophogeal spasms and hiccups. The first few day to day and a half I had the hardest time getting anything down because I'd get what the doc called esophogeal spasms. And then that changed to hiccups. Painful ones. Then someone suggested not eating anything colder than room temperature and that did the trick. I even heated up my peach juice. Now, on day 4, that has all gone away and I just have lingering incision soreness and occasional gas.