haven't been able to swallow in 3 months...

I forgot to address the gurgling.  It could be the result of the acid reflux.  Those gurglings usually don't persist for a long time.  Oh--and having my esophagus stretched the couple of times I did helped for a while.  I need an endoscophy, too, and am on the schedule. 

I have thick go a my spit and a very dry mouth and dont drink near enough fluids in. And I thought maybe it was just the pot 😊

Why, shoot, gal--there's another possible sedative for Yashie's endoscopy.

 

Yashie, if you are still reading, there's something else that could account for the gurgling.  I had forgotten all about it, which is strange because my mother and I were both diagnoses with it long ago.  It is Zenker's Diverticulum.  I have received quite a cocktail of genes from both my parents and, as a result, my digestive system seems to be made of cheap tinsel.  However, over time this Zenker's affected me so minimally that it completely slipped my mind.  I only mention it now because the Patient description includes the gurgling, which I never had.  You can see it here.  The severity of Zenker's evidently varies quite a bit.

?https://patient.info/doctor/pharyngeal-pouch

One caveat, though, I do not know if this disorder is found in young persons.  The URL I gave states that it manifests in people over the age of 70, but when I was diagnosed I was 20 years younger than that.

Achalasia can be found in young people, and even in children, but is most commonly found between the ages of 30 and 60.  There are also other conditions that are associated with swallowing / motitility problems, but it needs a specialist to distinguish between them.  

?You can get a pouch (ie diverticulum) developing, which accumulates saliva and air and cause plumbing-type noises.   I think the 'thick, foamy saliva' needs to be checked out, just in case it might be connected with thrush / candidiasis.

This is a non-qualified guess, by the way.

I was diagnosed at 22 but symptons started when I was 21.

The consultant back then ( 1990 ) said it was very unusual

for someone my age to develope it.

I think that is one of the reasons I had so much trouble

Getting them to believe me.

At first I was told it was in my head because I hadn't lost weight

and it wasn't until later that I had lost 7 stone and

couldn't keep water down that they did something.

I think it's my fault that, in replying to myself, I was not more specific that I was still referring to Zenker's Diverticulum without achalasia.  I was too tired last night to look into the age range with regard to that but did this morning.  Google came up right off with a GI site that said they had seen someone as young as 30 with Zenker's.  That one might have achalasia and Zenker's at the same time never occurred to me but why not?  I hate the very thought of the lives of such very young people being tainted by achalasia but my reading and testimony here has already made the possibility plain.  [You are right about the cadidiasis, too.]  But I think there may be a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to achalasia and other autoimmune disorders.  Two breakthroughs came about in 2014.  Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium appear to have satisfied the scientific community with their conclusion that achalasia is an autoimmune response, after all.  [A couple of papers that I viewed that post date 2014 did not seem to dispute.]  In that same year, scientists at Bristol University revealed the possibility of preventing cells from attacking healthy tissue without immune suppressive drugs, converting agressor cells into protector ones.  That was three years ago and I do not yet know the precise status of that research now.  But one can't hurry science. These breakthroughs are explained in two articles [not papers] that  are easily read.  If anyone cares to have a look, he or she can send me a PM and I will send them.

I imagine that it is feasible to suffer from both, but the way to find out is to have the specific tests that would show that you were suffering from either / both.   The causes could be different.

Ach--I meant I would send links to those articles.  Also, if one wants to know the status of some research, if it could hold out promise for achalasia specifically--and when--one is best off to write to someone involved in the study of T cells.  So I did. Perhaps I'll even receive a response.

Reading the info on Zenkers, it seems like something I could have. I have all the symptoms. Maybe I'll mention it to my doctor the next time I go, but they'll probably say it's not possible for someone so young or something. Idk, I guess I'll try. Thanks for all the responses!

I hope your next meeting with your doctor will be in the very near future.  Don't hesitate to mention anything you want to bring up.  Once again, from your description of your symptoms, you need someone to look at your throat and esophagus very soon.  Having difficulty swallowing for three months, losing thirty pounds [ten pounds per month] and living on mush and puree indicates some action on your part pronto.  Honey, old toothless people eat better than your daily fare.  Please get that endoscopy and then come back here and tell us the results.  That's my suggestion. You'll get more support that way, everybody will learn a bit more, and future readers can also benefit.  I think, more often than not, people come to the Patient forum seeking advice, ideas, reassurance and then don't come back.  The stories are left unfinished, the symptoms remain mysterious because no reader knows what they indicated in the final analysis.