About Monday September 27th I started having the sensation that a pill was stuck in my throat. And that may have been the case. I'm taking a variety of supplements in an attempt to address the underlying inflammation issues and one of those pills (I suspect the large Mag Glycinate pill) may have become stuck. It took about a week for that sensation to pass, or at least move lower, and during that time I experienced again many of the pre-botox achalasia symptoms: the feeling of food and liquid getting stuck, then releasing, belching hours after eating, that clenched "golf ball in throat" sensation.
Long story short, I had another upper endoscopy today. The last time we did this I had a demorol / vicodin cocktail and I was groggy for hours and hours.
Today I had propofol and I'm pretty damn alert already, less than three hours after the procedure. I'm still not about to drive a car and I'm sure I'll sleep well later, but I'm doing fine now. And I'm hungry. Having some potato leak soup now.
They found some fluid accumulating in my esophagus that was causing problems swallowing, but no food accumulation or pills or anything else, so that's good.
They went ahead and did another botox shot so I should have months of relief again.
During that time I need to seriously consider getting the Heller Myotomy surgery in order to have a permanent solution.
I can continue to hope for some improvement with the anti-inflammatory diet and supplements but I don't know if that will provide enough relief.
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