[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

If anyone is interested, here is a web page that has the most concise explanations of therapies for achalasia.

http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.a...=digestiv/4384

Thus, people with achalasia often accumulate large volumes of food and saliva in the esophagus. Food can only enter the stomach when enough pressure builds up in the esophagus to overcome the resistance posed by the non-relaxing LES.

So really, you can avoid all of this (surgery, feeding tubes, etc.) if you had something long and hard to shove down your esophagus on a regular basis to force the food through. Anyone have any ideas?