Do not do any surgery against acid reflux

[Jimi Stein]

I have read on othrer forums that people have done this operation called fundoplycation surgery for acid reflux and the bad breath got worse. So do not fall into the dirty hands of the whitecoaties bastards that will only take your money and probably wirsen your overall health.

Acid reflux is obviously not the cause of Bad Breath. Here are some comments from other forums

Hey Faith,
Yes, the surgery did make things worse. If I could go back I would never have had that surgery done. I still have bad reflux. I was on aciphex for a few months but I quit taking it b/c the reflux started tasting like I was sucking on a piece of charcoal. I don't know why it started tasting like that but it did and even though I have stopped it still tastes like charcoal. I hope some day we can figure all this out.

Susie



Hi Susie,
I was wondering if having the fundoplycation surgery for acid reflux made your BB worse. It sure made mine worse.
Faith


Here is some more stories

Had Nissen two years ago this week. Going to a new GI next month because of problems caused by Nissen.

I am now lactose intolerant. I used to have three bowls of cereal each morning. I now cannot drink milk. Friday night pizza is a thing of the past.

I 'bonk' very easy. If I have coffee on an empty stomach or get dehydrated, my hands shake, I get a cold sweat and I get dizzy.

I still cannot drink carbonated beverages. When I do, I get a sharp pain in my left shoulder (I'm told that this is a nervous 'chain reaction', where pressure in the stomach fires off some nerves that land in my shoulder)

I get pressure at the top of my stomach when it gets upset (often), particularly (but not limited to) when I have alcohol. I can have maybe two drinks, and then I get pressure from my stomach that ripples up my throat. It prevents me from breathing or speaking for about a second or two. Recently, a friend handed me some Sambuca - I took a sip and it seemed to stick at the top of my stomach and burn there. Wine brings a tough reaction, so I limit myself to vodka and cranberry juice.

If I do have those two drinks, I get the most hellish hangovers. As you might expect, I don't drink often now.

After I eat, I often feel very tired. Sometimes I need to go lie down after eating. This, along with the alcohol thing, takes any fun that there was in business dinners.

I cannot eat 2/3 of the portions that I used to be able to (even though my Dr. said this would not happen)

I am amazingly flatulent. It is not just embaressing - it is uncomfortable.

TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY THE ADVICE TO CHEW FOOD THOUROUGHLY AND IN SMALL MOUTHFULLS!! I twice had food get caught at my LES right after surgery - on the second occasion, I was on my way to the hospital when I got it loose.

All in all, I traded one set of manageable problems for a second set that is more difficult to manage. Sometimes food will cause a reaction, the next day it won't. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't get the surgery.

[austuser]

I am getting surgery done in a couple of months because I have a polyp growing at my osophygus junction. Its benine. They told me the surgery would also cure my acid reflux, which by the way I thought may be a causing factor of my bad breath. Now I dont know what to do

[oneway]

I must add, from my own experience that the weeks when I experience persistent heartburn, my breath is much worse. Obviously, if you don't have halitosis, then acid reflux may not cause BB. However, if you already have halitosis, acid relfux can make it much worse!

[Jimi Stein]

I just wanted to suggest that if you are doing the operation just because of the bad breath do not do it, because it makes bad breath worse, at lease in few people that I read their stories