midnightramen

Thank you, I will definitely ask for an esophageal motility test. And yes I did mean physically, when I eat food most of the time it will just sit in my chest until I swallow water, and sometimes if it's enough food stuck water will just come back up out of my mouth while trying to swallow.

Hello. I am about 2 months away from having gastric sleeve surgery but I'm real scared of having problems swallowing. I haven't been able to normally swallow food without taking big swigs of water after every bite for 6 years now, sometimes even protein shakes go down slow, and I can't swallow pills at all. My doctors tell me that I need to be practicing eating without drinking, but I physically can't. So far my doctor had me do a barium swallow and didn't find any problems. Next I will be doing a more in depth swallow study, and then maybe they will look with a camera. Has anybody on here already had these kind of problems before having surgery. I'm not sure I could handle the sleeve if it ends up making my swallowing even worse.