Or the one I had needs to be dilated some more. For the past two days now when I eat things are getting stuck. I have been absolutely miserable.

I've hardly been able to drink anything because whatever I have eaten is just stuck. When I think I may be able to eat something else I have only fooled myself.

This absolutely sucks.

Pik I'm so sorry you are going through all of this. You've had a tough road and you ate still always so positive in your posts. Things will get better!

Thank you. I sure hope so. We are supposed to go out of town for 4 days and I am really worried about doing that..... I am pretty concerned because I am not going to be able to get my medicine down...

Pik I hate to hear that you are having more problems. Hope you get better quickly!

Summer

Thank you!

I am so sorry to hear you are having problems again. Strictures are the worst. I had a total laryngectomy because of cancer almost 8 years ago and ended up with a stricture. Now my problem was a little different because I had had radiation in the same area. They would do esophageal dilations and 2 weeks later it was restricted again. So frustrating; everything would be fine and I would be eating and it would get stuck and I would have to cough it up. Gross and embarrassing when eating with others. Ended up having a dozen dilations. Then moved to NC to be with my son and went to Duke Medical Center and they fixed it for good.

I feel for you and I will say a prayer for a speedy recovery...

Thank you. I am here at my fiances parents and I am in rough shape. This is the third day in a row I am like this now and it is bad.

Praying for you Pik.

Really don't know if this needs to be said as my circumstances were different that yours, but I would rather play it safe ... don't let your stricture get too small (don't wait too long) or it can not be dialated again. Keep in close contact with your doctors. Try and calm down and get something in your stomach (food was my problem), liquids never became an issue. They might decide to do a stomach tube to hold you over until you can do food (I had one for several months).

Whatever they do, you WILL get past this part and things will smooth out. I'm praying for you...

Really don't know if this needs to be said as my circumstances were different that yours, but I would rather play it safe ... don't let your stricture get too small (don't wait too long) or it can not be dialated again. Keep in close contact with your doctors. Try and calm down and get something in your stomach (food was my problem), liquids never became an issue. They might decide to do a stomach tube to hold you over until you can do food (I had one for several months).

Whatever they do, you WILL get past this part and things will smooth out. I'm praying for you...

They were thinking I may need a stomach tube the last time around. I kept telling them I thought I had a stricture and they kept saying no. I was dehydrated and couldn't eat or hardly drink. They dilated it some until they met with resistance. Tomorrow makes 4 weeks that I had it done and at about two weeks I could feel it forming again.

Thank you for your prayers and support. Things have been pretty rough for me since surgery. I guess I've had two good weeks....

I don't want to read this! Can't they just put a mesh or tube or something there so it stops constricting? And change doctors.

I don't want to read this! Can't they just put a mesh or tube or something there so it stops constricting? And change doctors.

I have no idea what they can do, but I have a call in to them. I am out of state so I can't do anything until Thursday at the earliest.