Howard:

How does one repair the vegas nerve? Or do I wait it out?

Mike


Richard Kaszeta wrote:
> "Howard McCollister" <nospam@nospam.net> writes: 
>
> Indeed, when I had my Nissen, the surgery team insisted on several tests:
>
> - Manometry (which had already been done diagnosing the GERD along
>   with the pH monitoring test , so I didn't have to redo this one)
> - A barium swallow test (as Howard describes below)
> - A gastric emptying test (radioactive oatmeal, and they watch you
> until the oatmeal has passed from your stomach)
>
> The pH monitoring test (with a transmitter pill the second time) and
> barium swallow were repeated after surgery when I had a return of
> symptoms.  And after 6 months my new clinic (I moved cross country)
> had another endoscopy to make sure everything looked fine.
> 
>
> This is basically what my surgery team did with me.
>
> --
> Richard W Kaszeta
> rich@kaszeta.org
> http://www.kaszeta.org/rich

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