Chocolate milk and chocolate soymilk are both staples in my diet!

Katie, I've struggled with swallowing problems since treatment which ended over three years ago. I won't go through all the ins and outs of what happened to me but I will say this--keep doing your swallowing exercises and keep swallowing as much as you possibly can. If you stop doing either of those, your swallowing will get worse because your swallowing muscles will atrophy.

Also, it may be time to get another opinion on why you can't swallow if you don't feel you are getting the answers or making the progress you need even when you do the recommended exercises. It turned out that the x-ray/video from a modified barium swallow that I had early on had not been read right (they had overlooked that I had a pretty large esophageal stricture) and so all the exercises I was doing faithfully weren't helping because I was like a clogged sink--stuff backed up. It took a lot of running around and travelling elsewhere to find that out and it is soemthing I shouldn't have had to go elsewhere to find out but mistakes do happen so be aggressive about things related to this.Swallowing disabilities are hard to live with I think you want to know you've done everything you can before assuming you may not get your swallowing ability back.

Nelie