[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

That's why I'm getting the test. I've been having a minor issue swallowing anything on the dry side, like sammiches or cheese and crackers. It gets caught a little right where it transitions from mouth to throat. Sometimes I have to swallow 2 or 3 times or take a drink of something. It's not serious, but it is noticeable as I've never had that problem before. I figured it's best to have it looked at in case there is an underlying reason. Always good to catch stuff in the early stages.

Definitely true. Might be esophagus issues. I worried about this (had a swallowing issue) and had an upper endoscopy done. Luckily everything turned out okay and problem went away.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Definitely true. Might be esophagus issues. I worried about this (had a swallowing issue) and had an upper endoscopy done. Luckily everything turned out okay and problem went away.

That's what I'm hoping for.

[bucketfoot]

Had the back of my neck puff up bigtime during our WDW trip for our daughter's wedding.

Had it checked out recently including a CT scan and fortunately found out it is only a fairly large lipoma (benign fatty tissue). It does impact my range of motion and causes some neck pain, so I'll be looking at getting it removed.

[NealfromNZ]

Originally Posted by M_Six

That's why I'm getting the test. I've been having a minor issue swallowing anything on the dry side, like sammiches or cheese and crackers. It gets caught a little right where it transitions from mouth to throat. Sometimes I have to swallow 2 or 3 times or take a drink of something. It's not serious, but it is noticeable as I've never had that problem before. I figured it's best to have it looked at in case there is an underlying reason. Always good to catch stuff in the early stages.

My father-in-law had issues swallowing with food of late especially with dry food.
It got progressively worse to the point where he reduced his eating consumption considerably.

Background is he’s been on a lot of meds from heart through to others required over last three years.

It turned out that his GP was saying with all the meds and antibiotics he ended up getting thrush in the throat. Ended up being straight forward to treat with yet more meds, but came right relatively quickly after.

Hopefully it’s something straight forward like above.

[kscarrol]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

Don't remember those... not to scare you but my wife had hers last week, initial biopsies were negative but they found a mass that will hopefully be removed in the next week or two for additional testing/biopsies. Keeping fingers crossed!

So a long over due follow up. The mass was cancerous and had spread to her liver. The mass was removed back in October and she had six rounds of chemo to shrink the three small spots on her liver. The chemo shrunk the spots significantly and she had surgery this morning to remove those spots.

Scans show no other cancer but given the spread beyond the initial colon tumor, she will have another six rounds of “clean up” chemo in case anything else is floating around.

She is resting comfortably and should be home in a couple days. There is a light at the end of the tunnel!!

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

So a long over due follow up. The mass was cancerous and had spread to her liver. The mass was removed back in October and she had six rounds of chemo to shrink the three small spots on her liver. The chemo shrunk the spots significantly and she had surgery this morning to remove those spots.

Scans show no other cancer but given the spread beyond the initial colon tumor, she will have another six rounds of “clean up” chemo in case anything else is floating around.

She is resting comfortably and should be home in a couple days. There is a light at the end of the tunnel!!

Sorry to hear about the first part, but glad to hear the second part. Sounds like she has been through a lot over the past 6+ months (as have you I am sure). Best wishes with her continued treatment, recovery and a healthy future.