After years of struggling with acid reflux I've reached the point where I can no longer deal with it.
The chest pains and breathlessness were put down to 'anxiety' so often that i gave up going to the doctors.
I recently tried again and really had to push for a referral.
An endoscopy in november revealed a 5cm sliding hiatal hernia, gastritis, Oesophagitis grade 2, Duodenitis and gord.
I thought I had suffered enough, I've now been asked to have a barium swallow test.
Surgery would be my absolute last option normally but I've reached the point where I see no other option.
Medication doesn't help, losing weight isn't an option because my BMI is already fine and I'm struggling to eat more than a few bites of food without being full.
Yet I'm now worried, after seeing other posts, that I'm going to need to fight for surgery? So many people are being refused surgery and I really don't know what I'll do if they turn me down.
To anyone who had the barium test, how long after this test were you told you would be able to have surgery? Or when were you refused surgery?
It would be on the nhs, going private isn't an option for me unfortunately.