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Old Dec 31, 2011, 07:57 PM
mrsconfused2012 mrsconfused2012 is offline
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Okay, so...about 4 years ago I moved to Phoenix to be with a boyfriend. No friends or family their that I knew AT ALL. Completely different zone. Now that I think about it, a few weeks before I left, a couple of times I would go to eat I would have to do "double swallow" for my food to go down but I never thought anything of it. The same thing happened a few weeks after being in Phoenix. (I moved from Pennsylvania) My bf was in the Marines so I saw him once a month. One day, I went to DQ and got a burger and drink and was eating like normal. I took a bite and choked on it. I thought "okay, maybe it went down the wrong pipe, no biggy" Took another bite, it happened again. I took a drink, it happened again. I went for about..3 months with HARDLY eating or drinking anything. 3 months is all I was down there for. I found that getting up in the morning and eating right away and drinking, I was able to do just fine if I did it quickly. As the day went on, it got worse. I moved back to PA, and then met my now husband. After moving in with him and his family, within 2 weeks it was COMPLETLY gone. Now beings, 3 years later, I was at work and just took a sip of my drink and I choked on it. It's been like that ever since. But this time around, I can swallow food just fine. The thicker the liquid the easier. It doesnt happen everytime though either. It started when I was worried about money for xmas, then my son got put in the hospital for a week, and its just been one stress after the other. Everyone said, it will go away. Well I went to the docs and he put me on Cipralezam. Its helped SOME but not completly. I can chug something down if I wake up in the middle of the night just fine or just in the morning. But again, gets worse. ONLY with liquids.

It sucks SO BAD watching everyone chug a drink and a whole cup of something lasts me a week. Any thoughts or help or ideas?? The other thing is, I did suffer from bad heartburn and was in the process of getting polyps on my gullbladder looked at when our insurance ran out so now I cant do that. I suffer from these acid reflux like symptoms:

-trouble swallowing
-acid taste in my mouth
-sometimes when i yawn i feel like throwing up immediately afterwards
-stomach pains with diahrea
-heartburn after certain drinks and foods

Is it possible it could be that? I work at Subway, and shortly before it started, i was drinking ALOT of soda and eating a meatball sub EVERYDAY sometimes more than once.