@doglover888 It's obvious from your remark about food stuck in your stomach indicates you have a stricture. If food gets stuck, so will your saliva, which begins, particularly as you begin to eat, as thick, to aid in digestion. At a guess, you may be having esophageal spasms, trapping food and saliva, as I do. I'm due for my second dilation for my stricture today just after noon. Although I'm afraid it'll have to be postponed because I forgot to stop my Eliquis soon enough. (The stretching process necessitates some bleeding, particularly because they are, in most cases, stretching scar tissue.) An oncologist friend, not my own doctor, told me he had a patient up to 40 dilations. There are other procedures which may be tried, if dilation doesn't work. The date of your surgery indicates you are a survivor. You don't have to put up with this symptom, with which I'm very familiar, unfortunately...