I'm going Thursday for my fifth dilation, all under anesthesia. I'm in Huntsville, AL and my GE doc here stretches to 20mm, which equivalent, I understand, to 60 FR. I had my last at MD Anderson, in Houston, where I was treated, only with chemo radiation. I was dilated, among other things, on 8/5/'26. He only dilated to 18mm, because we were flying in two days. I started feeling a little tighter about a month ago, although I can still eat about what I want. My GE here is pretty young. We mentioned DIY, actually I did as a joke, in the OR just before the last one. All in the OR laughed and the doctor said "some people do." If it keeps on at this pace, I'll certainly be interested in it. Mine was squamous, in the middle third, and originally staged as advanced III (confined to esophagus, no hot regional or distant nodes) and later lowered to II, it was circumferential of my esophagus, so that they couldn't even get a wire down. I finished treatment on 5/15/'25 and am so far NED. Self-dilation is very interesting to me...