Guest guest Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 AmI the only one? I can choke on my own spit. I have to break my pills into tiny pieces and spread out eating only nibbles throughout the day. Forget a whole meal at once. It gets scary sometimes. My md thinks I need a scope down my esophagus. But, it comes and goes. And, when it happens I have pain beyond belief, paralysis, blindness, etc going on too. It never seems to occur when I am doing well. So I think it must be ms related. I am afraid to let someone try to put a scope in. Once they insisted I needed to get a stricture enlarged. After that I had worse problems. Then they got better. Now worse again. Don't want to go down that road again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Swallowing difficulty a common symptom of MS. It's a nerve thing. I would be scared to have scope shooved down my throat too! > > AmI the only one? I can choke on my own spit. I have to break my pills into tiny pieces and spread out eating only nibbles throughout the day. Forget a whole meal at once. It gets scary sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 I also have trouble swallowing(also called dysphasia)I can only eat puured foods now!And just water-no straws-it's really made a difference! Pam G Subject: Re: swallowing difficulty To: mscured Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 12:33 AM  Swallowing difficulty a common symptom of MS. It's a nerve thing. I would be scared to have scope shooved down my throat too! > > AmI the only one? I can choke on my own spit. I have to break my pills into tiny pieces and spread out eating only nibbles throughout the day. Forget a whole meal at once. It gets scary sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Me too! You're not alone by any measure in this one! I've always had to be careful with swallowing so I'm used to chewing my food and dodging anything dry that I'm served up to eat. I am also really aware of how I tackle the process of swallowing and have found my way to swallow many tablets at once.I just concentrate, move the tabs to the sweet-spot on my tongue where tabs get flicked down my throat and swallowed safely.....I have to take my time to do it, but keeping calm and concentrating helps me more than anything. 'What we do in life, echoes through eternity.' MARCUS AURELIUS (121 - 180 A.D.) To: mscured From: plg8388@... Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:49:46 -0700 Subject: Re: Re: swallowing difficulty I also have trouble swallowing(also called dysphasia)I can only eat puured foods now!And just water-no straws-it's really made a difference! Pam G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 You can swallow water ok???? Water is a killer for me. I eat a lot of pudding. I have found that spreading my food out a few bites here a few there helps most. I choke on mashed mushy sweet potatoes if they are at the end of a full meal. Do you get spasm attacks in the esophagus too? Does seeing a GI do any good for this? My md wants me to go to one  but it is a 200 mile drive. Good luck to you, Dole Subject: Re: swallowing difficulty To: mscured Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 12:33 AM  Swallowing difficulty a common symptom of MS. It's a nerve thing. I would be scared to have scope shooved down my throat too! > > AmI the only one? I can choke on my own spit. I have to break my pills into tiny pieces and spread out eating only nibbles throughout the day. Forget a whole meal at once. It gets scary sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Hi , I imagined it was ms because of the impeccable timing of the symptoms. So, if it is a nerve thing, will consulting a GI, in your opinion, accomplish anything? I don't want to make a lot of useless trips to doctors who can do nothing anyway. Dole Subject: Re: swallowing difficulty To: mscured Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 4:33 AM  Swallowing difficulty a common symptom of MS. It's a nerve thing. I would be scared to have scope shooved down my throat too! > > AmI the only one? I can choke on my own spit. I have to break my pills into tiny pieces and spread out eating only nibbles throughout the day. Forget a whole meal at once. It gets scary sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 That isn't a question that I can answer for you but I would do more investigation on the subject before I followed the advice of a doctor who I had only known for 30 minutes. > > Hi , > I imagined it was ms because of the impeccable timing of the symptoms. So, if it is a nerve thing, will consulting a GI, in your opinion, accomplish anything? I don't want to make a lot of useless trips to doctors who can do nothing anyway. > Dole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 My swallowing problems left with the prokarin. ________________________________ To: mscured Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 8:16:32 AM Subject: Re: Re: swallowing difficulty Hi , I imagined it was ms because of the impeccable timing of the symptoms. So, if it is a nerve thing, will consulting a GI, in your opinion, accomplish anything? I don't want to make a lot of useless trips to doctors who can do nothing anyway. Dole Subject: Re: swallowing difficulty To: mscured Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 4:33 AM Swallowing difficulty a common symptom of MS. It's a nerve thing. I would be scared to have scope shooved down my throat too! > > AmI the only one? I can choke on my own spit. I have to break my pills into >tiny pieces and spread out eating only nibbles throughout the day. Forget a >whole meal at once. It gets scary sometimes. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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