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[the_rck]

I finally remembered to call on the biopsy results from the endoscopy. Everything's fine that way, no cancer, nothing even precancerous. I still won't know till mid-April if there's something worth trying to correct the hiatal hernia, something, that is, apart from the medications I've been taking for years (and the always classic bit about losing weight).

The last week has brought home why I really hope that something can be done-- Needing to wait 2-3 hours after eating anything in order to lie down to sleep, even for a nap (and no, I can't sleep sitting up. People keep asking), pretty well limits my day time options for catching up on baby impaired sleep. Being told to "sleep when the baby sleeps" doesn't work all that well when it means not eating or drinking anything starting 2 hours before she *might* sleep.

I wish I could find a way around this, but I haven't been able to. There are a very few things that I can sometimes get away with eating close to lying down, but only ice cream is consistently safe. Whether or not I can drink anything only partly depends on the reflux; it's more of a bladder problem. At least, I've got a better handle on what I can get away with there.

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[marith.livejournal.com]

Glah! That sounds awful :/ I'm glad that no dreadful problems turned up from the test, but on the other hand that means you still don't know how to fix it, right?

*hugs and sympathy*

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[the_rck]

The test was looking for two things. The first was the cause of my chronic acid reflux, and the second was whether or not years of reflux had altered cells in my esophagus to be either cancerous or precancerous.

The biopsy addressed the second question. Right now, nothing further needs to be done, but I'll have to keep having endoscopies regularly to make sure that the situation doesn't change.

As to the first question... Well, we now know that the cause of the problem is something called an hiatal hernia, a part of my esophagus where the muscles aren't capable of contracting to keep what I've eaten and the gastric acids that digest it in my stomach where they belong. I don't know whether or not this can be repaired or if attempting repairs would be worthwhile. Those are the questions I'll be discussing with the gastroenterologist when I see him in April.

I expect that he could have answered the question while he still had the scope down my throat-- That is, I don't think it's a difficult question for a specialist, not a rare problem within the specialty. I just have to wait because of his schedule. (Though I suspect they'd have found a way to get me in sooner if the biopsy'd shown trouble...)

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

(nods nods) Wishing you the best.