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Another great reason for the surgery! They found something.

ImaWaterBender
ImaWaterBender Posts: 516 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
I had my VSG surgery on February 4th. I found out a couple of days ago that doing the pathology on the removed stomach, they found a tumor.

It is called a GIST and was small and benign, but these grow in the wall of the stomach unnoticed and always become malignant. I don't know if there are any more, but they say that they typically grow in the fundus and my fundus was removed.

I am thanking God for his mercy in getting this tumor out of me and I am SO glad that i didn't have the bypass, because the stomach AND the tumor would have stayed inside of me.

Both of my parents died of digestive cancer and this is one of the reasons that I had the surgery, to lower my risk factors for cancer.

Jan

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  • lorilbuckner1
    lorilbuckner1 Posts: 172 Member
    Wow! Praise God!
  • janet0513
    janet0513 Posts: 564 Member
    That is great that you had it removed in time
  • TN_Tinker
    TN_Tinker Posts: 143 Member
    amazing
  • ImaWaterBender
    ImaWaterBender Posts: 516 Member
    I'll have to have another endoscopy in six months, but i can live with that.
  • bikrchk
    bikrchk Posts: 516 Member
    True dat! They found evidence of GERD, (called silent reflux as I didn't have any heartburn symptoms) when they did my EGD. What I DID suffer with pre-op was a chronic cough from the GERD\hernia being mistakenly treaed as asthma. Through this process they were able to properly diagnose, fix the hernia and put me on a PPI which has resolved all symptoms. It is an AMAZING gift to breathe again!
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