Seen different doctors about this and all have different views, had camera down throat and all that stuff. One camera up/down nose that was awful. on liquids and some stuff from hospital that tastes absolutely awful. Swallowing is difficult feels like evertything gets stuck and won`t budge which causes gagging/vomiting. Really is awful.
Sleep is difficult at the moment, catch an hour here and an hour there, anyone else have the same?
Hi I have this problem but bot all the while its usually when I am tired, ad a speech and lang therapist to help me told to eat at lunchtime.as not so tired, but this is not always possible, also raise the bed at one end this helps with reflux in the night which is probably waking you up, antibiotics wont help as it is not an infection, but finish the coarse. good luck hope this helps
I have to have a glass of ice cold real orange juice to hand when eating particularly for meat , spicy foods or bulky bread etc. Stress can make it worse. My throat 'blocks' until the orange juice trickles through and then my throat seems to relax, open and then normal operations resumed. Sometimes it can be scary.
I hope this tip might be of help to somebodyelse.
Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated and gratefully accepted.
Purchased a blender and now my food gets blasted to a fine liquid which I swallow in small in spoonfuls.
That orange juice tip helps - thanks for that
I have also found that a lttle of the blended food at a time seems to stay down and I 'm not vomiting - yet.
Will help with my weight also as I am a wee bit overweight
It blends the little baby oranges to a smoothy making them easy to swallow also.
Well done Wobblybee ! I know how hard it is to lose weight so i know what you had done is unpleasant but thinking of the positive is good . I hope you don't have to keep them on for good . Maber x
I've bought a hand blender with a potato masher attachment. The masher is
wonderful, I thoroughly recommend it xB
The blender I have hs numerous attachmnets? I've only used the blaster to blend my food into liquid paste. I'll have to read the manual to see whta the rest are for
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