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Dear , This IS a good thing - please believe it. It is better to know what you are dealing with so that you can come to terms with it and move forward. Waiting for answers is the hardest part. I am sure you have been witnessing the agony has been going through recently. All she wants is to KNOW, to have some resolution, peace of mind and some effective treatment. Tell your wife that she will receive all the advice, love and support she will ever need with this. We have our oracles (Notan, ). our 'secretary, welcome committee and achalasia evangelist', , our long-term experienced veterans, like Maggie and Ed ( excuse me guys , I did not mean to imply you were getting on in years or anything - lol) And

then we have our medically challenged agony aunts. One of them types in lilac ink all the time and will answers your more 'parochial' questions as best she can, however trivial or carzy they may seem to you. This Group member deals in feelings. What we all deal in is 'being in this together' . The power it generates is incredible. Please gently persuade your wife on to this Board so that she can use her own voice, if possible. I predict that the first advice she will be receiving is that dilatations, although often extremely effective, are usually not the long-term answer. And unless your wife is in her 70s or 80s the most positive way forward is the laproscopic cardiomyotomy. I say that with very recently gained authority. With a warm welcome and much love from Ann in England xxx "D.M.W" <long7time@...> wrote: Hello group. My name is and my wife has been FINALLY diagnosed with Achalasia, I say that like it is a good thing when I know it is not. It is just we have spent the past year and half for treatments other then Achalasia which has been the biggest waste of time there was. We have finally found a good GI doctor here in Houston and he has made more progress with my wife in 3 months then

the pervious doctor did in the past year. My wife just recently had her 5 dilatation performed, our current doctor stretched her to a 35 mm which is the largest he will go. He sees a need for a Heller myotomy at some point but we want to see how this last procedure goes. What I am writing about is her chest pains. They are a 7 - 9 out of 10 sometimes. She becomes totally disable while they occur and sometimes they happen hourly. I understand these are NOT HEART ATTACKS but like angina attacks. What can be done about this and how can we lessen these attacks if there is a way? from houston>> Ae you having chest pains?> Achalasia casues muscle spasms that we all call chest pains, becasue > it is a non-cardiac chest pain which feels like a heart

attack. The > first two I had I went to the emergency room thinking I had a heart > attck, but didn't, I was misdiagnosed for many years, but that is a > different story.> Maybe the doctor is thinking that if the mammontry rules IN > achalasia, then he can rule OUT that your chest pains are heart > related.> If he thinks the heart is an issue why no EKG or whatever they do > now.> Ask him what he is thinking> Dave-State of Jefferson> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.