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@henribaai Hi. You sound like you might have an upper gastrointestinal problem called esophagitis. Try there things: Avoid greasy, fried food. No caffeine. Sleep with your head propped up as high as you can, and still manage to sleep. Take 2 or 3 extra strength tums before you go to sleep. (Or any anti acid you prefer.) Go to a stomach doctor and perhaps get an upper gastro intestinal x ray with barium. Hope this helps!!! Lori Renee

@henribaai A swallowing test told me several things about feeling full and food sticking in my throat. Until recently fluids went down fine, but I'm doing what the speech therapist told me, to drink small amounts, hold it in my mouth and then tuck my chin in to swallow. I have to take small bites of food and chew it a lot. Sometimes drinking a sip will help the food go from the esophagus into the stomach. A couple of other things - no carbonated beverages and no straws.

Eating a meal takes much longer now, so I'm still eating when everyone else has been done a while. I also eat less because it's such a slow process. Sometimes I get tired from chewing so long, and don't eat my whole meal. That's ok if I need to lose some weight.

Have you had an endoscopy? That might reveal any esophageal and stomach problem. Perhaps your chest pain could be connected to a swallowing problem.

Don't give up until your doctors diagnose the problems.

Jim

@henribaai Hi. You sound like you might have an upper gastrointestinal problem called esophagitis. Try there things: Avoid greasy, fried food. No caffeine. Sleep with your head propped up as high as you can, and still manage to sleep. Take 2 or 3 extra strength tums before you go to sleep. (Or any anti acid you prefer.) Go to a stomach doctor and perhaps get an upper gastro intestinal x ray with barium. Hope this helps!!! Lori Renee

I use a 6" wedge bed pilow. Put regular bed pillow on top because the wedge is too firm. This helps me.

@russy please do you know of any test to embark on

vklittle61, where are you? I have had trouble getting tramadol and adderall in Virginia and Delaware. Draconian laws made by politicians who don't have chronic pain are hurting real patients who need real medicine. I bought some cold medicine in a drug store and the clerk had to check my I.D. even for that because she said that teenagers are abusing regular cough syrup like dextromethorphan. I don't know what they are doing with it, I don't see how it could make them high, all it does is stop cough and barely that. Peggy

My gastro doctor did an endoscopy. I have IBS and reflux. I take Linzess for the IBS. The pillow helps with both conditions. When I get too much reflux I put my bed pillow as high up on the wedge pillow as possible. Then I am able to release a lot of the reflux.

I’m in Houston Texas the medical center of the world

Hello, I am Mitch and have fibromyalgia, Fuctional Movement Disorder and degenerative disc disease. The fibromyalgia and FMD are all new to me in the last two years and learning to best manage my pain.