olly
Extremely helpful member
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2008
- Messages
- 2,743
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 11/2007
- Country
- uk
- State
- uk
- City
- uk
no,not intake (too skinny for that)but what i eat.
slowley my swallowing is getting worse and some foods are getting just plain too procarious (sp) to eat.
tonight while eating my evening meal (lasagne,jacket potato and salad)the salad kept getting stuck and i had to keep hacking so i would not choke on it.
my list of moderated foods so far are......salad,spagetti,biscuits or stodgy stuff.
if it gets stuck at the top of the throat its a case of trying to dislodge it.........further down which thankfully is not ofton then its a full on choking fit.
i'm not a doctor but it feels to me like the muscles are not reacting quick enough to get food down.
i have had several years now were my chewing muscles have been effected.....yes,i could try to chew food up more but my jaw and lower facial muscles would give out half way through a meal.
i have been putting off going to see about it as it will mean more tests,just waiting till it gets to a more serious level.......for now its managable.
rose gave me a great tip of having some yogurt handy to help when food gets stuck so will give that a try.
dont want to alarm fellow pls'ers,alot here dont have bulbar involvement yet.........its taken about 5yrs from bulbar onset to get to this point.
so as i have said its now time to draw up a list of no no foods.
slowley my swallowing is getting worse and some foods are getting just plain too procarious (sp) to eat.
tonight while eating my evening meal (lasagne,jacket potato and salad)the salad kept getting stuck and i had to keep hacking so i would not choke on it.
my list of moderated foods so far are......salad,spagetti,biscuits or stodgy stuff.
if it gets stuck at the top of the throat its a case of trying to dislodge it.........further down which thankfully is not ofton then its a full on choking fit.
i'm not a doctor but it feels to me like the muscles are not reacting quick enough to get food down.
i have had several years now were my chewing muscles have been effected.....yes,i could try to chew food up more but my jaw and lower facial muscles would give out half way through a meal.
i have been putting off going to see about it as it will mean more tests,just waiting till it gets to a more serious level.......for now its managable.
rose gave me a great tip of having some yogurt handy to help when food gets stuck so will give that a try.
dont want to alarm fellow pls'ers,alot here dont have bulbar involvement yet.........its taken about 5yrs from bulbar onset to get to this point.
so as i have said its now time to draw up a list of no no foods.