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Endoscopy fears

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mellymc22
mellymc22

Hi all, for the past 3 weeks I've been having intermittent dysphagia. I had some pain in my right shoulder blade and right chest also. I've got old gerd for a decade and have taken Prevacid and Protonix. I'm terrified that I have esophageal cancer as I've lost a few pounds. The trouble swallowing comes and goes but it's mainly with solid food. My regular doctor is sending me to do a barium swallow this Friday. I was glad to get to do that because I am terrified of an endoscopy That Could perforate my esophagus. Now I went to a new GI doctor and she said that you have to have an endoscopy to rule out esophageal cancer. My question is, can a barium swallow not show esophageal cancer? Should I have an endoscopy before the barium swallow? I'm wondering if I can get by with just the barium swallow for now. Any advice would be greatly appreciated because I have three little kids who desperately need their mother back and I'm so anxious from all of this.

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  • nancy54455
    nancy54455 mellymc22

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    Hi, I have had at least a dozen endoscopes with absolutely no problem. One of them saved my life by finding a tumour early. That was 3 years ago and now I’m Cancer free. I don’t even take any meds!! Get the endoscopes ASAP!!
    • becky7624
      becky7624 nancy54455

      Posted

      Nancy, how did you treat your tumor? I was diagnosed with a very early stage tumor in December and just underwent having my esophagus removed. No further cancer was found.
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