USC medical center, here I come...(maybe)

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

The last option is a surgery called a heller myotomy, which is basically removing the sphincter at the bottom of the esophagus and cutting away portions of the muscles from around the lower esophagus. This is what I had done in April. Was great for about 4 months, then symptoms returned.

WTF?!?! You have one aggressive esophagus there, bud!

Ok, so how does that surgical procedure differ from the one(s) being proposed now? I can understand not wanting to have surgery that results in a measly 4 months of respite, but - even accounting for you being on the uber-low end of the symptom-abatement scale - how long are abatement rates predicted for either of the two new surgical proposals?

My point is that you can always go the feeding tube route ... (without making too light of the risks and recovery surgery entails) why not try all other options?