hi,

i had chemo&rad that gave me eating problems.. i did 8 months with a speach person, which helped big time... they know lots about eating...

then i got my esophagus stretched twice... seconday rad had caused it to be very tight.. it is now close to normal size. initially it was about 2 mm diameter, now it is 42 mm. in the general population, 50 mm is typical... however my doc didn't want to stretch again, so i am happy to leave it alone.

my eating is much improved, but lack of saliva continues to be a problem.

i found that getting help with this was something that i had to push for. the doc's didn't offer it. i had to ask for help.

cu,larryb