I Have Achalasia

I was diagnosed with achalasia in feb 2005. almost a year after i had my symmtpoms for doctors thought it was GERD. had the operation dec 2005. Things didnt go bak to normal right away.Though i can swallow without difficulty anymore...

Hi everyone...my names jade and I'm 25 years old..I was diagnosed with achalasia when I was 21 years old! It's started out with bad heartburn and a total weight loss of 40 lbs and a misdiagnosis of GERD! 5 months later I got a heller...

Hi All,

Was wondering if anyone else is going through the same thing? I was diagnosed with Achalisia in 08 and had a Heller myotomy in the same year. I had lost 41 % of my body weight and was really suffering with the weight loss...

i was diagnosed with achalasiain may of '08 after tests were run. I was throwing up several times a day. Not throwing up stomach contents. what was in my esophagus. At night i would dream, and in my dream i would be throwing up. I would...

Wow so excited!! I will finally be getting surgery and know what it will feel like to eat like a normal person!! =)

I have achalasia. I found out yesterday I need to have surgery again. 4 1/2 years ago, I had a hiatal hernia repair with a Nissan fundlipication. That now has to be undone, a hillar myometry done, fix the paraesophagial hernia I have...

My story started when I was thirteen years old. It started with a feeling like there was a chicken bone or something in my throat. I had terrible pain when I ate and coughed constantly. I started to lose weight and my gp referred me to...

Hello all! I know my last post I mentioned I need to get on here more... there has just been so much going on it's been hard to! So here is a little update on my Achalasia.
Last September, I saw yet another GI specialist. He was GREAT...

I have had Achalasia ever since I can remember (7 or 8 years old?) and had always put up with it as I didn't recognise that I was any different from anyone else. Things got harder when I turned 13 and I began choking in my sleep, I...

Feb.07 I was told I have chalasia. I could not keep food and lost 52 lbs
I did not choose the options offered but am doing massage,accupunture and chiroprctor. There are good days and bad. Sometimes I can eat chicken and sometimes not...

I was always a thin person always eating slowly and was the last one to finish my meal. Taunted all the time by all around me.My symptoms started happening 10-12 years ago when I used to get up with severe chest pain. As if a belch is...

Hi! I am 47 years old. I was diagnosesed with Achalasia almost 4 years ago, now! I started with symptoms back in 2002 had a EGD and was told I had GERD. Was put on Prilosec and it helped my symptoms to some degree but I progessively...

Hi everyone! This is the first group I've ever joined. I've had achalasia for about 8 years now. It's oddly comforting to read stories about peoples experiences with this disease, usually nobody has ever heard of it! Finally going to...

i was diagnosed with alchalsia about 4 wks ago. i have irritable bowel which was diagnosed when i was 22 years old i am now 38. i have had my gallbladder removed after the doctor told me that i had polyps in my gallbladder at the age...

I was diagnosed with achalasia when i was 17. It took the doctors ages to find out what it was and i was going back and forth to the doctors all the time.

A few months away from my 18th birthday, i had the hellers myotomy surgery. It...

I was back into the frey of 12 and 16 hour days for a few months on this big project with my work partner out sev mos on maternity leave. Right as I was easing into a lovely Friday evening of a 3 day holiday week-end, sitting down to a...

This month's readers digest features a story of someone who has Achalasia--and I think I now may finally have a term for it as well!

I am hoping so anyway. I often feel strictures in the upper part of my esophagus, like in the area...

I'm 32 I've had Achalasia for about 6 years now.  It started when I was pregnant with my son, I thought I was just having heartburn and burping a lot(I had never had it before so I was unsure what it felt like) later I found out it was...