If you experienced acid reflux post-op, at what point did you start experiencing it?

[anonbaribabe 236]

Hi all! I'm 1 week post-op and know that some experience acid reflux after getting sleeved. If this happened to you, can you tell me at what point? Was it shortly after getting sleeved or once you started on solids? Also, as you lost weight did your symptoms improve? I never really experienced acid reflux or heartburn prior to getting sleeved, so I'm hoping I'll be okay, but I'm curious about others' experiences. Thanks in advance!

[GreenTealael 25,430]

9+ months, comes and goes. Mild so far...

[S@ssen@ch 745]

I started getting heartburn about 6 weeks after sleeve surgery. I started taking nexium right away and it takes care of it.

I started noticing nighttime reflux after about 6 or 7 months. I started sleeping on inclined bed and vowed never to eat after 7pm. As long as I'm faithful to the no eating after 7pm rule, I'm good. I don't get the heartburn and the reflux is mild, but I saw gastroenterologist a few weeks ago to stay on top of it. He found a small hiatal hernia contributing to the reflux.

I can't say if it got better after losing weight because at some point in this journey I developed the hiatal hernia. My surgeon said that I didn't have one at the time of the sleeve surgery.

[anonbaribabe 236]

3 hours ago, S@ssen@ch said:

I started getting heartburn about 6 weeks after sleeve surgery. I started taking nexium right away and it takes care of it.

I started noticing nighttime reflux after about 6 or 7 months. I started sleeping on inclined bed and vowed never to eat after 7pm. As long as I'm faithful to the no eating after 7pm rule, I'm good. I don't get the heartburn and the reflux is mild, but I saw gastroenterologist a few weeks ago to stay on top of it. He found a small hiatal hernia contributing to the reflux.

I can't say if it got better after losing weight because at some point in this journey I developed the hiatal hernia. My surgeon said that I didn't have one at the time of the sleeve surgery.

Thanks for your response, I appreciate it. I hope that your hernia doesn't get any bigger.

[chellyvillen 21]

I had never experienced reflux before surgery and I started having really really bad reflux a few weeks after surgery. I was on 2 different antacids 2x a day to control it - for about 4 months. Then I got down to 1 just in the morning. And I was trying to get off of it, but I've noticed reflux a night recently and I am going to start taking my antacid mid-day so that it lasts longer into the night.

If 1 antacid isn't working don't just start taking another one - some of them you can take together an others you can't - talk to your doc about it.