Tina77, I just had a chuckle. Had a swallow study as well. When they hand you something to eat or drink and they have to also tell you what it is, well that can't be good...

This is applesauce.

This is graham cracker.
Ha!

That aside the technology is incredible. I went through some swallow therapy which cost a stinking fortune and I still didn't "pass" the second study. I decided close was good enough. Without exception, when I choke it's right after I did something stupid (too big a bite, too dry a bite with no liquid, etc). The therapy was beneficial but common sense is as well.

Sounds like me, Chris. I failed my barium swallow test miserably so swallowing therapy was ordered. I did 35
1-hr sessions of therapy and still couldn't do much better than I did when I first started them. I did learn to bend my head down when I couldn't swallow something, and also turn my head from one side to the next to swallow. Yippee! Insurance paid some but not all and it was expensive. It might help others, but to me it was a waste of time and money. Your "common sense" approach is better than the therapy was, hate to say.
Julieann

Chris, I would have preferred applesauce, I got butterscotch pudding - ughhh.

I am, as always, so upset when I see that people cannot afford part of the treatment options that are available. Not to get political on anyone, but I was not out of pocket one penny, nor did I have to process anything through an insurance plan for speech, physio, nutritionist, hospital, you name it. Perhaps the US government needs to take a look at the (much maligned) Canadian health care system.

HI Tina,

Since I don't want to say anything political, I won't say that we in the US have been well and truly hosed since we decided that Medicine was just another business in a for-profit world.

Nope, I wouldn't say that, even with a mouthful...

And in your not saying that I would say I agree...if we were saying it!