Background: In an earlier post I reported that my blood tests show that I had/have anemia (also spelt anaemia). My doctor's initial reaction is to advise iron tablets, which I have to a large measure been taking. He then also requested my local hospital book me in for an endoscopy, which involves sedation followed by a tube being passed down through the mouth into the stomach. The goal being to do a physical examination of my insides. This revealed, at worse, a hiatus hernia, which means that my stomach is pressing upwards into my oesophagus.
The hospital report on this was reassuring, that possibly 75% of older adults had hiatus hernia and that mine was nothing special. I thus thought, well that was worth doing to find out not much wrong, and no particular harm done.