Guest guest Posted September 22, 2011 Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 Hey everyone. So, I had a pretty scary day this past sunday. I was eating chips and cheese on vacation. Well, I must have had too many before water. After I took a drink of water I felt it...stuck...usually this will last about 20 min or so and I can get the food to go down with water and gravity. but not this time. 3 hrs later I was still in a bad place. I tried to vomit and get the food out, but I have not been able to do this since surgery. I tried and was able to get just a tiny bit of food to come out. Then, it was every time I took a drink of water, the water and just water would come back up. I was in a little town in Texas and the nearest ER had no idea what achalasia was, go figure. They tried to give me somthing to relax the esophagus and to hope the food would pass. Well, when your muscles are pretty much dead, not sure relaxing dead muscles would help, I'm just saying. Then, they gave me warm water to drink. I felt like s circus act, everyone in the ER looking at me. They ended up transfering me to another hospital. Much better and not only did the doc know what I had, the nurse did to! I guess since so much time had passes, I was able to get the food down, but didnt know it because my insides felt so bruised and my chest still hurt. They did a swallow test and could see a small stream going into my belly, about 30 min later, most of the fluid was in my belly. I saw my GI doc's PA yesterday. She recommended an endoscopy to make sure I didn't damage anything from all the retching. She is going to run it by the doc first, but I also wanted to get all your expert opinions. Should i get scoped for the 2nd time this year? hugs from St. Louis, a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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