Re: Possible Achalasia but don't know.

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where do you live--I think you need to go to one of the top GI doctors in your area--we all live in so many places and can help you with names == from Bostonrfrazier5671 <rfrazier5671@...> wrote: I have been having these problems for some years now and my doctorthinks it is alargies. In the last couple of days it has gottenworse. It is almost everyday now. So here we go: My upper backhurts, my chest hurts, my esophagus hurts, and it is hard to move without alot of pain. It got so bad one time i

almost stop breathing, andcould not get water down at all. But i think since i found thisAchalasia it sounds like i now know what it is. I now know i am notimagining it. Does anyone here agree with me. or am i wrong. Doesanyone else have the same problems. I am going to go see a doc. afterthe holidays. __________________________________________________

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Redding, California which is about 160 miles north of Sacramento

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Hello and welcome! I'm glad to hear that you'll be seeing a doctor

about this soon! Your symptoms could be from any number of things,

just one of them being Achalasia. If your problems are narrowed down

to coming from the esophagus, I agree with that you should see

a top doctor or go to a university medical center for proper diagnosis

(and the members of the group may be able to recommend someone or

someplace near you). My husband has an esophagus motility problem

(not Achalasia, but a different one). We found that the esophagus

tests done at our local hospital didn't provide a conclusive

diagnosis, like the ones he had done later at a university hospital.

Good luck and please let us know what happens for you!

in Michigan

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> I have been having these problems for some years now and my doctor

> thinks it is alargies. In the last couple of days it has gotten

> worse. It is almost everyday now. So here we go: My upper back

> hurts, my chest hurts, my esophagus hurts, and it is hard to move with

> out alot of pain. It got so bad one time i almost stop breathing, and

> could not get water down at all. But i think since i found this

> Achalasia it sounds like i now know what it is. I now know i am not

> imagining it. Does anyone here agree with me. or am i wrong. Does

> anyone else have the same problems. I am going to go see a doc. after

> the holidays.

>