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Masako exercise is to stick out your tongue and swallow, maintaining a neutral head position. The second one is to press your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and push for 5 seconds. The third one is to tuck your chin and tighten all of the muscles in your throat and mouth, and swallow your saliva.
So far, these are the ones I do multiple times a day.
Jim
Thanks, Jim, @jimhd
I'll give that a try - the first one sounds a bit tricky - may take some practice. I appreciate your sharing these exercises.
Teresa
help again. i now have over 40 mayo clinic gmails in less than 18 hours. guess i will have to stop using this site. to bad.
Teresa, for the Masako, sometimes I can only go as far as holding the tip of my tongue between my teeth.
Jim
I usually get over a hundred Mayo emails per day and watch at least one video, sometimes up to 150 all told. If I don't want to read them, I just mark them read, or delete them. I usually delete over 1000 emails per day, all told. I don't mind deleting all I do not wish to read. I figure it all helps to keep the internet free. You might unsubscribe from those threads you don't want to read. The only ones I am tempted to do that to are the MJ pushers.
@peach414145
Barb, I stopped following the groups that I was only marginally interested in. I don't check my email every day, so the messages can really build up. Most of them, I glance through quickly and delete them. I respond to a small percentage.
Jim
Hi @peach414144, I am sorry you are getting too many emails from Connect but it’s an easy thing to fix. To turn off email notifications, you can click the unsubscribe at the bottom of the email or you can click your Profile in the upper right corner of the screen and select Account Settings. Then go to the bottom and find Email Notifications. There you can select/disable which notifications you want to have sent to you (or not!).
John
thank you but at age 80 i must have dementia. cannot keep up with this new technology. perhaps if i were born in the fifties instead of the thirties i would be more able to keep up. so,,,, i will delete, delete, delete. (as i have said before, i need a five year old to help me. thanks again patience, patience, patience.
@jimhd That's great that Huntington's is so unlikely but I am sorry to hear about your other problems. I hope they will get resolved as much as possible, as soon as possible. You sound like you are working at staying positive despite everything and I think that is really paramount.
JK
Hi Jim @jimhd
We so appreciate the update. I'm glad that Huntington’s Disease was found to be an unlikely diagnosis, that is good news. I hope your neurologist visit goes well, they are good at figuring out some of the tough symptoms.
I've had a lot of speech therapy for swallowing and speech volume (paralyzed vocal cord), but the tongue exercises are new to me. Can you describe what they are like?
Teresa