Just a quick update: going to my 21st VitalStim session this afternoon and am up to 360 "forceful swallows" of "nectar". After this next MBS, planning on ditching VitalStim as I will have done 24 of them and all their literature as well as posters here indicate that if it was going to work, it would have worked by now. Here is the link to the NIH study I mentioned, even though it is using a different machine than the VitalStim - same principles. I can see now why they excluded people like me from this study
NIH study on swallowing


65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13