Below is a patient experience with Nissen fundoplication for LPR treatment
The outstanding reviews on this page were so helpful in my discernment, and I hope my experience can be useful too! The short story is that my surgery for LPR was a complete success, and I’m most grateful to Dr. Darido and his high standard of excellence.
My LPR symptoms became debilitating a year and a half ago when I got pregnant for the first time. When I contacted Dr. Darido postpartum, I was down to fasting after 3:30pm and only six foods that I could tolerate. If I deviated from this diet even a little bit, I would experience debilitating lung pain, ear pain, congestion, throat pain, throat mucus, and laryngitis. I could not bend over or lay flat.
I was diagnosed with asthma when I was very little, but I’ve since learned that LPR was the true reason for my respiratory issues all these years. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of LPR’s existence until after I gave birth. I vomited constantly during pregnancy and went through tissue boxes like crazy because of congestion and throat mucus. I didn’t understand my symptoms and neither did my doctors, including two ENTs. I’m lucky that both baby and I are okay.
Not the case with Dr. Darido’s practice. Brenda and Valerie were wonderful and helped me see Dr. Darido, who was very knowledgeable about my condition, as quickly as possible. When I came in for testing in September 2024, he found a large hiatal hernia, saw that my LES was very damaged, and diagnosed me with LPR. I went in for surgery soon after, and the pain was gone as soon as I woke up! Dr. Darido even gave me his cell phone number and responded right away when I had questions during recovery.
I’m fully confident that I made the right choice in choosing Dr. Darido as my surgeon. As he said, and as my experience confirms, my Nissen wrap was executed flawlessly. Dr. Darido is in a league of his own, and I will take care of my wrap to ensure it lasts a lifetime!
God bless you Dr. Darido! I can get back to my life and give my best to my family and baby girl because of you, and my family and friends are so happy to finally see me well and eating again! If that wasn’t enough, my husband and I look forward to me being much healthier and safer in the next pregnancy, if we are ever blessed again in that way! I desperately needed help and am most grateful to have found a surgeon I could trust. I can’t imagine my life without Dr. Darido and will recommend him to everyone I know suffering from acid reflux pain. I have even recommended him to my own family – that’s how much I trust him! Thank you again for everything! God bless you!!!