Guest guest Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 It apears that my esophagus has returned to it's normal size or close to it. I was not even aware that this is possible especially considering I have never had any treatment! A year and a half ago I had a chest x-ray and was told that my E was " grossly dialated " . A few weeks ago I had a barium swallow requested by a new Dr i am seeing and it showed that my E was no longer enlarged. This was further confirmed yesterday when I had another chest x-ray. The Dr. said it looked like normal size from what he could see. When I had the Barium Swallow done I was also told the les was opening but only a little. This is definitely good news considering that I was expecting the worst. I was expecting to hear that by this time it was sigmoid in shape at the very least. I have been daignosed with A about 6 yrs ago and like I said I have had no treatment. Luckily for me things have goten better except for sleeping at night. I have certain foods I stay away from and I use a wedge to sleep. A few nights ago I had a really bad night after eating mac n'cheese so this is one more thing I need to add to my list. I have pneumonia hence the recent chest x-ray, likely due to aspiration. the swallowing thing is pretty goodand I have learned to adapt moslyb Imay still opt for surgery as I would love to be able to sleep lying flat again and I am tired of dragging that wedge around when I am sleeping away from home. Has anyone else had their E go back to normal size? In Ontario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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