Your esophagus may be scarred due to the radiation and so it requires to be stretched out again. It is important to remember that the radiation touches and impacts those parts of the body on its way, not just the cancer. You sound like you’re doing well, you have to give it time.

There are a variety of swallowing exercises. It is helpful to do them all to strengthen your swallowing muscles and keep them from becoming atrophied.

Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards

Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.