Throat and Jaw muscles

Hello Everyone.

I’ve had esophageal issues since March. Foods seemed/seem to go down slowly or getting stuck in my esophagus. I think it was a panic attack tWo weeks later when my pill felt like it was stuck in my chest. I just could not swallow my saliva. I was terrified. I went to ememrgancy and two hrs later I was okay and sent back home.  But after that incident I could not do multiple saliva swallow periodicallyI.I decided to chew down my foods more than usual to pass down my foods. It actually took me at least 30 -60 mins to finish my meal because I was chewing so much. 3 months later, I was eating my meal, and my jaw muscles came really lose. They felt so fatigue that I had to stop my meal. Also my throat muscle felt tired as I chewed my food down. Since then my swallowing became weaker weaker... one day I was driving and I could. It multiple swallow my saliva then I forced my self to swallow my last one. My swallow became softer and softer. Now it continued and I have weak swallow.

I met multiple GI, neuro , rehab doctors. Only things they found was

My 

1)D dimer - 1400

2)Anemia

3)Barium swallow test-Weak swallow squeezing

4)Monomentry Test- upper & lower esophageal sphincters relaxation pressures were incomplete and high

5)EMG muscle test twice - Fine

Other numerous tests came out fine.

My rehab doc told me you can’t really measure throat muscle with EMG because it is dangeraous and they tested my tongue said it is same nerve system. She said it can be stress and my upper esophageal sphincter affecting my throat muscle when I swallow which makes my swallow throat tiring quicker. 

My GI doc said let’s try Botoxing my upper and lower esophageal sphincters and letssee if my throat muscle will fix it.

I have tried a calcium channel blocker, it seemed like it was relaxing my throat but my swallow were weaker ..... so next day I tried the anxiety pills for three days at night and all my muscle were tiring and relaxing and it was harder to swallow my food from the throat.... now I don’t know what todo... i don’t know why I am suffering this problem and I am losing so much weight. Since March my life is just trashed because of this... I was really healthy guy but I don’t know why I am going through this. I live in the states and I really want to to someone who can really find my problem and help me out ... any suggestion? 

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