Post #51569 by Shipwreckjoey on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 5:44 PM

Ben, I feel your pain man (or at least I used to). After years of suffering, puking acid & gulping down hand fulls of rolaids & tums (and later tagamet), I finally went under the knife to repair the screwed up check valve in my esophogus. The proceedure was done with laproscopic surgery and is called a nassen wrap (sp?). Not too bad really...only one night in the hospital & a coupla weeks on a diet. The real drag is I wound up with an ulcerated esophogus that could become cancerous from all those years of neglect. So the moral of the story is don't fool around and blow this off...new esophoguses are hard to come by!