It all started, with the hickups..........................
It all started with the hickups, for me that was quite strange i never hickcupped. We all though it quite funny at the time. "You eat too fast and dont talk while eating", mum said. At first it was only now and then, it became more frequent until every time i ate i started. Then it became chuck ups i had very little time to run outside, as the food went in and came out faster, much to the amusement of my elderly neighbour thinking, "drunk again", and much to the pleasure of my dog, he always got right where i was chucking and loved a free feed. I forgot to mention the chest pain attacks which started shortly after the hick ups, they could drop me to my knees, cluching my chest my Doctor thought Heart but it checked out fine. (small sips of cool milk were the only help at that time). After a couple of years and going from 80 to 55kgs my Doctor who had run out of ideas thought it might be mental and that slimming desease.
Quite by accident my doctor was away and i had too see a new doctor, after explaning my symptons, his face lit up,"your not going crazy i think its Achalasia" and sent me to see a friend of his who was a scientist and he diognosed it, after doing a manometry (they are not pleasnt) to be continued if this allows me to edit later.
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