Barrett's Esophagus. Good News. Correction. Great News

[spiritfilled 32]

Back in May I was having a lot of heartburn, indigestion, pain, and nausea. I had already seen a WL doctor and he suggested that I do the bypass instead of the sleeve because of all my heartburn and indigestion. In the process of this I went to the Gastro doctor and may they did a colonoscopy and a endoscopy. I found out that I have Barrett's esophagus and ulcers in my esophagus. For those of you who don't know, Barrett's esophagus means that I am precancerous. They put me on medication and she wanted to scope me again in 45 days. I was scoped on July 17 and they call me with the results today. No more Barrett's esophagus and everything is looking good. I still have gastritis in my stomach and the same type inflammation in my esophagus. She said to continue my medication. This is better news to me than being approved for weight-loss surgery, Because there is no cancer. I see her in about four weeks and she may discuss hernia repair because my GERD is so bad

I think weight-loss surgery is on hold for me right now until I get this stomach and esophagus healed. The other good news is I have drastically decreased my Coke intake and no weight loss.

I'm also scheduled for major eye surgery on August 12. This is one of the reasons I chose to back off on weight-loss surgery. But again I am cancer free in Jesus name. Amen

[Djmohr 6,965]

Thank goodness! You definately need to take care of yourself and it sounds like you made the right decision to wait on WLS.

I wanted to share with you tha I too was planning on the sleeve but it was recommended by both my bariatric surgeon as well as my enterologist that I have RNY because I had severe Gerd. I cannot tell you how many nights sleep I missed because I was up walking the floors with stomach and chest pain from that disease.

I went ahead with the bypass and low and behold, I have never had Gerd or heartburn since and I can pretty much eat anything. All of the things that used to set me off, I can now enjoy. I am so glad I went this route.

I wish you the best of luck and hope you continue to get good news!

[spiritfilled 32]

Thank you