Dysphagia Exercises?

Hello Jamie and welcome to the CSN H&N forum. You don't say what treatments you had but one thing you may want to consider is to ask your doctor if dilations would help your situation. I was getting things stuck after my first cancer and treatment and I had 4 of them. You may still have to drink with your food if your saliva flow is really affected and low flow.

But possibly though the first thing may be to have a swallow test so they can see where and what the problem is. That would be one of the options you can run by your doc.

I have had swallow tests and they have determined that my best swallow is with my head down and turned to the left. This would go through a speech therapist who handles everything such as speech, swallowing, talking, etc. They may also give you swallowing exercises to do I have done these different times following my treatments to help me strengthen my swallowing.

Here is another swallowing exercise video, a little more personal covering swallowing exercises and posture--

If you can give us a little more information on your cancer, treatments, maybe where you got them such as a cancer center or local hospital, etc. Did you have surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination of treatments? What stage was your cancer and was it a squamous cell?

Maybe your doctor already knows what your problem is so check with him first and he can help you decide on tests and treatment. If you need dilations or just a check of the throat via an endoscopy it is done by a gastroenterologist and he has a flexible tube that he inserts to look at the area.

Welcome aboard, glad you found us and I hope something here helps you.

Wishing You the Best

Take Care God Bless-Russ

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