robs477
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@robs477 The reason I said I would advise no wine is that I think GERD is a distinct possibility in this case and alcohol is a big-time trigger. Otherwise one small glass wouldn't hurt anything, but at 2.5 years alcohol messes with my stomach
Scott, yes, this is a variation of GERD where the LES is out of Synch. The very second something hits these ladies stomachs the stomach constricts, spasms, tightens, LES opens and everything comes back up. Its a catch 22 situation. In order to stop this from happening, everything has to become relaxed but...in order to relax the stomach, you have to ingest something that it likes. UNFORTUNATELY, that is going to be different from person to person, thus my saying, you just have to experiment and push the envelope and keep on trying to find something that causes that relaxation. Once that occurs, then she has way less problems actually eating something of sustenance once the stomach has been relaxed and the LES is no longer opening. It really is a VERY tough situation.
And BTW...the family member I've been talking about is my Wife. She had a VSG done in September. I never said anything publicly, because my Wife's business is her business and not up to me to put on a public forum. It was so bad at first, I PM'd Larra and Diana and Jo (our reigning VSG Queen..lol.)several times for advice because I was freaking out! The only reason I'm saying anything now, is to convey my recent learned "the very hard way experiences" and to share what we've gone through to try to help these ladies. I've literally spent 100's of hours (or so it seems), researching this including talking with her (which are also my) Doctors multiple times, so, I know first hand. My Wife has had a VERY, VERY tough time of it. More so than I've seen or read in any of these forums and its exactly to the Tee displaying the same symptoms that is going on with these ladies. The good news is....it IS getting better, BUT...it is VERY, VERY slowly happening. As said, she 3 months out.
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