I HAVE BREAST CANCER AND I HAD CHEMO AND RADIATION. 😟 AND NOW I HAVE A HARD TIME EATING AND DRINKING..😞 AND I PRAY THAT I CAN HAVE ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY. 😇🌻🌞 I'M SO GRATEFUL TO MY GREAT GOD FOR GIVING ME MORE TIME. I JUST WANT TO GROW OLD WITH MY BELOVED HUBBY AND MY SWEET DOGGY. 👱♀️💕🐕👱♂️ WE'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR OVER 42 YEARS. 💕💕
@@zahwaglam4782 use a lotion to make your skin slippery and use the end of your fingers to feel for lumps push not to hard and in a circular motion feel the muscle type flesh for lumps check all the breasts including the sides towards the armpits also have you noticed weight change or other things that have changed like weight pains feeling lethargic or nauseous these are just some things I know as I'm a man so don't know alot my best advice is see a doctor as soon as possible if your worried
This is going to sound weird, but this guy had stage four cancer in four different places in his body veterinarian told him to try FENBENDAZOLE a few months later he was cancer free. I told the story and then three other people messaged me on my Facebook and told me the same thing with one of their family members are their friends.
Also, I had lung cancer and I have not had a recurrence in two years after I had my upper right lobe removed and then afterwards starting to eat broccoli sprouts three times a week. You can look up how to grow them right here on UA-cam. John Hopkins university tried to patent broccoli sprouts, but it was denied because it is a natural substance and there is a sulforaphane in broccoli sprouts. not just broccoli you have to eat the sprouts. It has 10 times the amount and eat them raw not cooked. I put them on my egg sandwich.
My first husband died of this twenty two years ago . It was not discovered until a couple months before he died. I want to say, when life is hardest, God carried us. The last days my husband got saved and Holy Spirit baptized. He said the Bible meant everything to him.
my father died of Esophageal Cancer last thursday. Please go to a doctor, the pain you cause on yourself and your families is not worth it. Stay strong.
Sorry for your loss. Im sure he experienced difficulty swallowing (i currently experience this and am scheduling a screening for cancer), what other symptoms did your father display. Bless him and your family
@@michaelciullo4788 thank you, this means a lot to me! Primarily reflux and not being able to swallow resulting in him vomitted it out again. He had reflux for a few years and did drink alcohol every day (not always getting drunk, but a glass of wine or whiskey). He lost lot's of weight and got tired pretty quick. I hope you do well and it's not cancer, bless you!
My mum had this cancer she fought hard to beat it but unfortunately she passed away 12 months after diagnosis, she was just 60 years old I miss her everyday , i wish all the best to those whom have been diagnosed and hope they get through everything to be cancer free and live a longer happy life , god bless xx
I'm sorry that your mom, you and your family had to go through this. May the Lord bring you peace beyond all understanding and put his loving arms around you. God bless you.
My husband was diagnosed in May of 2021 of non-small cell Adenocarcinoma stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was not a candidate for surgery or radiation as the cancer is in his lymph nodes. He has never had reflux but did smoke many years ago. He is only a social drinker, no liquor. He’s been through chemo in combination with immunotherapy for the initial 3 months but immunotherapy only since. He is doing quite well but has just developed a rash that is quite pronounced. I’m concerned that the doctors will stop his treatment and praying for a miracle. For all of you, I ask God to love, bless, and protect you and your loved ones from the ravages of all cancers. 🙏
I hardly ever drank, but over 40 years ago was a light smoker for about 25 years, never ate very spicy foods in my life, I'm in my early 80's and noticed a few months ago I had suddenly trouble swallowing and pain, but my Dr. thought it was acid reflux, heartburn, but even with Meds it did not help so I got 8 weeks (had to wait) later a Endoscopy test that said, stage 2 cancer, nobody in my family had it and they all smoked, some drank, but you can live a model life and do nothing wrong like smoking, drinking or eating spicy foods and get it , I do not want surgery at my age, it involves a 2 week hospital stay and then if you live alone like I do a 8 week nursing home stay, at my age the risk of infection and dying are to great for me to risk, in my opinion and that of two out of three doctors say a nasty operation, especially of course at me age, so I had the chemo and radiation, just finished it , and now can swallow better, but of course need tests, (Endoscopy) to see how much the tumor shrunk , most people die after a few years anyhow From this, it can spread to other organs according to statistics I read, but many don't , sadly I had it for a few months before even my GP Doctor suspected anything, not his fault, but I had to wait two more months for the test, health care here in our country is expensive and slow, you better have good insurance or lots of money or you die, I'm old but I am also so sad for younger folks with it, and depressed myself over this horrible painful disease, all I have left too enjoy is food, and that is hard to do when you cannot swallow well and have chest pain, but chemo and radiation help me a lot and I am better. Chemo is much improved, so you are not sick from it these days and radiation gives you a bad sore throat for a couple of months, but helps a lot , I did not need a food tube luckily. so Good luck, if you have family your lucky, I don't anymore. .
@@di3dsudd3nly, he just finished another round of chemo before going back to Cleveland for new scans, which looked stable. He’s currently on a chemo break before starting chemo orally in September. Have you ever hated and loved something at the same time? I feel that way about chemo. The side effects are brutal. Thank-you so much for following up, it’s greatly appreciated. 🙏
I think the reason it is detected late is the doctors miss it!!! It is not the people going late, it is the doctors who dismiss the symptoms as acid reflux, a virus or a sore throat.
I don't know which is your personal experience, but I can assure you that when a doctor has suspicion that a patient can have an esophageal cancer he won't dismiss the symptoms and will start the diagnostic process to confirm that suspicion.
Yes!! i agree with you. Aparently i'm too young to have any issues, but i know my body and i know whats not normal but if you're persistent like me they chalk it up to stress and anxiety, ugg.
my dad was diagnosed with this cancer on friday 9th october 2020 , i found him dead the next day in his kitchen , watching these videos to try get some answers to his sudden death , miss him loads xxx
Sorry for your loss. I feel your terrible pain. I've lost both my parents to cancer. Sudden or a slow death, doesn't make it any easier losing your parents :-(
My dad is currently battling stage IV esophageal cancer. It is horrible. It started with difficulty swallowing. He started chemo but what really helped his swallowing was getting cryotherapy on the main esophageal tumor. It helps instantly. He got it done at CTCA in Phoenix AZ.
My dad passed away from this in February 2020. He was a heavy drinker and tobaco user. 83. He presented systems in October. Then chemo and radiation. Till just a few days after the treatments ended. Things went down hill. Hospice. He took the easy way. So no further life savings methods. It was just pain with drinking or eating. We made him comfortable. I've felt the worst guilt for not helping him more. To keep him alive longer. Seeing this. Now. He made the right decision. It would have been terrible. Thank you. This releases me from the pain and guilt.
My brother passed away a week ago from this. By the time he found out he had it, he only lived 4 more months. A strong man was reduced to no strength in his body at all. My parents had to watch him waste away. It’s a terrible cancer.
A number of these symptoms are also reflected in Trotsky’s Ring. A constricted oesophagus. Food becomes stuck. Water to force it down often comes back up. Violent coughing to loosen it can work. I have had this for over 3 decades. So good to know I don’t have cancer
That was very informative. I believe that my father may have suffered from this because he often had indigestion to a very high extent. Eventually he complained about extreme back pain and headaches as well as a anemia. They ran all kinds of test, but what you are describing to me it looks like the doctors missed it completely after all the test they had done. We were at the hospital at least once a month and they ran every scan & test available. The last time I went to the hospital they diagnose him with cancer of the brain and spine and gave him 3 to 6 months to live. I wish I had seen this video earlier and I would shown it to the doctors and I believe I could have probably had saved his life. Now I'm starting to have a esophageal issues and have scheduled an appointment to get that investigated more. Again thank you for your informative video.
@@ForeverChiTonight Do you mean on me? If so I did have tests done and my issues were with a narrowing at the opening right where your esophagus goes into the stomach. They placed a balloon at the narrowing and it seems to have worked for a little while, but I feel as if it's reversing again and I will monitor the situation. Because of the constant throwing up (because of the narrowing) I found out that I was anemic, even though I have a little too much meat on my bones, and you can be anemic and be overweight as well at the same time.... who knew! I found that out by unfortunately going into the emergency room because of low hemoglobin. I was at a 3, normal levels are supposed to be between a 12-16, optimally! So needless to say I was on death's door. They found out I had other issues and I spent 4 days in the hospital and 3 pints of blood later.
I complained for months to my doctor I had pains in the chest the then the back and she still didn't listen eventually it got so bad I couldn't keep anything down not even water so I decided to go to the hospital thinking if was a heart attack only to be told it was cancer. It was almost curtains for me the head surgeon didn't want to operate so a Spanish lady surgeon did the removed Esophageal 2 thirds of my stomach removed a rib and cancer in my lymthnodes I was choking on food so they stretched my throat then I got skin cancer around the eye. I'm still here thanks to my surgeon family and they prayers but not to my doctor in Birmingham uk who didn't listen now I hear my brother hs prostate cancer I'm gutted please pray for my brother George 🙏
God Bless you Joseph. You are one tough person. I'm sorry to hear your brother George has Prostate Cancer. I was diagnosed with it June 2010. I had robotic surgery August 2010. I'm still here. I was positive 9 out of the 12 biopsies that were removed when I was diagnosed. Fortunately the cancer cells did not spread to other parts of my body. It was caught early enough. I had no symptoms other than my PSA had risen sharply from the year before. Gearge has a very good chance he will survive.
Oh wow see what if u had died that blood what I have been on that doctors hand thank God that he brong u before the right doctor and my name is George also I pray for u and your brother George healing
That really was a no nonsense summary of this terrible disease. I wish I had never heard of it. Best results are if detected early, yet it's progression is so subtle, making it difficult to detect at the early stage. It is an absolute nightmare.
I've been diagnosed with early stage EC but don't fancy the treatment so will take my chances which I understand to be very low (how low I don't know). So, it's good that, given the lack of decent information out there, someone has made this video for the questions that people in my condition ask. I don't really intend to go through all the horrors that may await me, so nice to know when the time comes to bail out before going down with the ship
I was diagnosed with EC in February of 2022. I went through chemo and radiation. I was in apparent remission for a few months, but then it came back. They offered an esophagectomy, but I'm not interested.
@@alneal100 It's a tough operation to take, and even if successful, only 1 in 2 are still alive 5 years later. Of course it's a very personal choice and if I had a lot of dependency on me then I may have felt more guilty about opting out. Someone like me with an early stage T1b is offered this op because it's the only way to guarantee getting it all out, but all in all, it's not for me and I'd rather do the risk assessment and take my chances that it won't return. If it does then it was my choice and I'm glad I flipped the coin. What this video does is give me signs to look out for in case it spreads and It's not noticed otherwise. The medical community don't always tell you all you need to know.
If your having issues with reflux and swallowing, get yourself a very good Gastroenterologist. It's highly likely you have a Hiatus Hernia. Don't assume it's simply a part of aging. My mother and her two brothers suffered with reflux and all three had Hiatus Hernias. Only one uncle use to get his esophagus stretched. So I just learned to live with mine. By the time I seeked help, I had too be operated on to repair my gaint hiatal hernia that required a fundiplicatiin wrap. It had become an issue that needed surgery almost immediately. I was placed on a low dose of blood pressure medication used off label. It was well tolerated until my country became in short supply, meaning the medication that worked the best suddenly became unavailable. There was no substitute available.
I was diagnosed with that hernia this year not nice cause it creates a divertical colon in my body because of my reflux over the years and taking omaprozole meds that destroyed my stomach over the years taking it not happy so I'm taking myself off those meds that is repairing one part of my body but destroying other parts 😢
This video is an awesome presentation in patient freindly language. So educational and informative. Could not have been done any better. Amazing caring doctor.
Great video describing this cancer. exactly what I was told at my doctor. When in doubt go see a doctor.... if you detect this cancer early it can be cured. I'm a survivor of this cancer because I caught it early.
Wish I came across this video couple of years ago. Year ago today how my mum died from this cancer. Happened so fast. She died two weeks after being diagnosed. Wish I knew about the symptoms earlier so I could persuade mom to have endoscopy she kept refusing to have. Thank you doctor for your videos. For people who want to understand their bodies your information is very welcome 🙏
I was diagnosed in September with an Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus just at the junction of the oesophagus and stomach. I have my next cycle of Chemo finishing on New Years Eve. I will be having my stomach and much of my oesophagus removed mid January, via keyhole surgery, followed by 4 more cycles of FLOT Chemotherapy. The Doctor believes I have a chance of a total cure because the Pet scans indicate that it hasn’t metastasised outside the GI Tract.The only symptom I had was I noticed my stools were much darker than usual and the Doctor recommended a gastroscopy, as the dark stools could indicate bleeding higher up than the bowel, which uncovered. My advice is to be very observant of any changes in your body and bowel moments. This cancer is becoming very prevalent and has a very, very poor survival rate if not caught early!
I just come here to encourage somebody today I want you to known GOD is a healer and GOD is the one that give life not men so trust GOD with your life there is nothing that GOD can’t do there is not sickness GOD can’t heal I know about it because GOD heal me I was fighting for 3 month and the doctor 👨⚕️ couldn’t do nothing so if GOD heal me who are you there he can’t do the same for
Bible verse from Sirach 38:1-4 1. Make friends with the doctor, for he is essential to you. God has also established him in his profession. 2. From God the doctor has wisdom and from the king he receives sustenance. 3. Knowledge makes the doctor distinguished, and gives access to those in authority. 4. God makes the earth yield healing herbs which the prudent should not neglect. Always, God's will be done.
Of course it is God the creator so he will fix anything he wishes when he sees fit, but sometimes when he does not there is usually a very good reason for that and we must accept it.As we say there is always bright light after a dark tunnel so we need be brave and to trust God. Peace
I have all symptoms of this cancer. I'm 22 and have had GERD since I was roughly 16. Lanzoprazole has become useless and have been prescribed the highest dose of omeprazole whilst I wait for my endoscopy. The trouble swallowing food has become a real problem for me. Just been discharged from hospital after 3 days under assessment due to extremely low blood pressure from not being able to eat. Even drinking water has become hard. Doctors think I have this but with spread to the lymph nodes , kidneys , stomach and bowels. I am not scared of death, but I am scared of a painful one. Hopefully I do not have this horrible disease as I have a mate who's been told he has no more than 8 months to live after being diagnosed with stage 4 esophagas cancer. My heart goes out to all of you surviving with such a dehumanizing illness.
@jon Mate hope u r okay, I hope u don’t have this. Please update us My dad has stag 4 and he has no idea, I kept him in dark We caught it early and had chemo for 5 sessions I could not do much after as taliban came to Afghanistan and had to leave the country Now in Pakistan, doctors said that he needs to be on drugs as long as he survives I pray for all
I was in car accident,trouble eating. I sleep with my head high. Belly bloated. Tired out,dizzy & don’t want to go to doctors. I pray things get better.
Please go to the doctor. my husband was in a fender bender 3 years ago and the air bag deployed. He felt fine except a few weeks later he could not stop huccupoing. His doctor prescribed an over the counter acid blocker. I think 3 years down the line that accident caused damage that lead to esophageal cancer. Doctors could not find it and treated him for other issues. Hindsight tqhe cancer spread to his brain, liver and other organs. We only had 3 weeks between diagnosis and his death on July 23, 2021. This is a horrible way to die, we were married 35 years. If your body us giving you symptoms you are fortunate. Please push your fear aside and get medical help. I'm begging you.
White Wolf, I strongly advise you to immediately go see a Doctor about your symptoms. PLEASE. I'M not a Doctor but I feel your symptoms will not go away. The longer you wait the more damage can be done. PLEASE PLEASE SEE A DOCTOR.
My late Father had an hiatal hernia and at the time was told the operation to fix it would be very painful like cutting through a rib bone, sorry long story short he suffered reflux had a miner heart attack , years of gastrol medicine throat losanges, he was diagnosed with a 2cm pollip ( cancer ) in his stomach/ esophageal cancer, at the time he had a camera down his throat i asked why did they just not cut it off it was small, anway they put hikm on chemo first dose caused him to have a stroke , could not speak to us again properlly, hurt to eat anything going wild with pain, started him on radiation to source finished the time then said oh hang on your still alive said he needed one more week i said no Dad dont do it he dies the next week, so cancer treatments are still not known , i beleive the treatment killed him
So very sorry..l saw my Mom suffer til she passed away due to this idiotic health system. Money isn't important but it is if you're forced to go to horrible city hospitals for your care, getting bags full of harmful RX's. Again if sure hurts to go through this. Now l'm almost reaching her age and trying my best to not let history repeat itself. Thank you for being there for your Dad. Take care of yourself, Blessings to you and your loved ones 💐
My father died of this 18 months ago, wasn’t picked up early enough and so it was very difficult watching him die a bit more every day and suffering a great deal of pain....terrible disease!
I went through it too with my brother, I watched him fade away from a muscular man to become emaciated, it was very painful to witness, the cancer literally consumed his body.
I used to drink a lot of hot tea with very little milk in it. I was irritating the lining of my esophagus and had symtoms of G.E R D. Stopped drinking the tea and felt alot better, symtoms improved within weeks. Very hot tea drank frequently is not good for the esophagus.
@@the_original_public_newsense My late Father had an hiatal hernia and at the time was told the operation to fix it would be very painful like cutting through a rib bone, sorry long story short he suffered reflux had a miner heart attack , years of gastrol medicine throat losanges, he was diagnosed with a 2cm pollip ( cancer ) in his stomach/ esophageal cancer, at the time he had a camera down his throat i asked why did they just not cut it off it was small, anway they put hikm on chemo first dose caused him to have a stroke , could not speak to us again properlly, hurt to eat anything going wild with pain, started him on radiation to source finished the time then said oh hang on your still alive said he needed one more week i said no Dad dont do it he dies the next week, so cancer treatments are still not known , i beleive the treatment killed him
Hi I have had esophageal cancer. I believe it was stage 2 at localised to the esophagus. I was very lucky that it was very difficult to swallow foods as you explained so I knew thing was very wrong. My specialist diagnosed Barretts oesophagus and cancer after an endoscopy. I had cross therapy. ie. radio and chemo therapy. Then 3 weeks ago, I had surgery using the Ivor Lewis method. I am now very saw still where they opened me up and the right part of my chest. It is still painful when I cough, sneeze or laugh, not as bad as when I was discharged from hospital 2 weeks ago. Now though, I find it hard to eat properly because if I have too much I get an agonising pain in my abdomen only to be relieved by belching or burping. I almost rang an ambulance twice wanting to be rushed back to the ward. I am now so careful to eat very small meals but more often, say 5 meals a day. I am scared to drink also fearing it may fill me up. Any advice at this stage of my journey. My specialist hopefully can answer my questions when I finally see him. I also would like to know whether the cancer can rear its ugly head again even though I have a brand new esophagus and suspect lymph nodes were cut out.
I had chemo and radio therapy and the Lewis operation 4 years ago. Now at 63 of age I have fully recovered and am in fact in better condition than before diagnosis. Living without an esophagus is an adaptation but is perfectly feasible. I must say that the operation is done now in Europe without opening of the chest.
@@christianwouters6764 Hi, I am eating quite normally now, just entre size meals. How long did it take you to get to full fitness, like going back to work full time? I am on immunotherapy now once a fortnight to ensure the beast doesn't return. My oncologist is pretty confident the drug will work, it just leaves me fatigued.
@@Alpha_7227 I went back to work 2 weeks after I left hospital. Don't take any medication now. This recovery is exceptional, the doctors were and are surprised. But it is possible.
@@christianwouters6764 If I told my surgeon that he'd be completely surprised. It hurt like hell when I coughed, sneezed or laughed - that didn't go away until a month later. I was still extremely sore 6 weeks afterwards. He said patients take a good year or so to recover. You must have been a very fit person prior to the operation with a great positive attitude. I have just returned to work last month, only 2 days a week, for 5 hours because I just get fatigued - I am putting it down to the immunotherapy drug though. I am looking to be fully fit by the start of the school year in Feb next year.
Thank you very much for this very interesting video sir. Sadly my grandfather suffered and died from this awful disease (and had liver secondaries) in 1950s Blessings and peace
Wow so I'm not alone by myself I'm 24 years old man having problems eating not wanting to eat and I even when I want to eat I feel like my brain is telling my body not to eat and I'm losing weight and definitely having trouble swallowing and shortness of breath lord I pray 🙏🏿 pray right now I'm the name of Jesus Christ for everyone that has comment about going through this cancer or someone that has lost a loved one because of this cancer I pray in the name of Jesus Christ god that will be with us in this dark time lord I pray against this cancer that's attacking the inside of are physical body which u have created I come against these cancer lord that u will make a way out of no way lord I pray that help are brain cells and organs anything that is not right break it and remove it In Jesus name
You know what I never see on ANY esophageal cancer video? The smaller symptoms ever. I have not been diagnosed yet but, I am sure. My symptoms mucus, sputum production with VERY light bleeding, I mean most would miss it. Mornings are worse, bubbly gut mid to lower stomach. I have main symptoms as well : dysphagia but can swallow ok for now, weight loss,. Barium swallow friday so I will find out. If its EC I hope its not stage 4. I have no pain when I swallow, no black stools or vomit. Scared af. On blood thinners Have "small" hiatal Hernia drank heavy back in the day, moderately the last 3 years smoked 17 years ago May 2021 Endoscopy esophogus ok Dec 2022 CT scan with contrast caught nothing and while not gold standard for EC I have had 3 Xrays the last month of my chest which does show the esophagus with no findings
@canbreezy we had the same situation 3 xray all negative, barium swallow looks normal, ct scan last December 2022 also negative. My symptoms are feeling a lump in my throat, excessive saliva, and hard to swallow, btw how's your barrium swallow test?
I lost my mum and dad to Esophageal cancer. It’s a horrible wasting disease. By the time you get diagnosed it’s usual to late. It’s already spread to other organs. 😢😓😭
All this is signs and symptoms are totally true but is salient cancer that by the time it is diagnose the patient is already on stage four and in critical conditions my husband pass away of 43 years and doctor never caught it and according to doctor my husband blood level were normal and were not able to understand was going on plus treatment took another month until Insurance’s give us approval by the time care was given was just to expand his life for couple month’s . Now he is in heaven.
I am so sorry for your loss😟 I have trouble swallowing and food getting stuck between my chest and I can feel a lump around where the food if getting stuck.. sometimes the food comes back out with all this mucous..also have grape like things that come out of my colon when I strain to pee..but I have not lost weight and my drs. Believe it is an autoimmune disease..did he lose weight by any chance? Also did he have bug biting sensations all over body ? So he never had symptoms??
I'm so sorry for your loss. My husband passed due to lung cancer, and the doctor wouldn't even do a blood check for months. Then, when they did, he was already stage 4 . After 30 years together, we got 9 months and 9 days , 40 weeks and 4 days. He was 45. Stay Golden 🌟
How long have you had with Barret’s? How often do you have endoscopies to check it? I first got diagnosed with barret’s 3 years ago, no displasia was found back then, I haven’t gotten another endoscopy ever since. I’m a bit scared that whenever I have a new endoscopy they could find something else.
About 3 years ago i started choking and having difficulty swallowing i also was spitting up blood in the mornings. Had a endoscopy an turned out to be oesophigitis from a hiatus hernia where the acid was splashing up into the throat. Been on ppi since and all fine
I have been gagging all day and night like dry itchy throat sometimes it’s so bad I throw up. It feels dry and I’m not sure why it’s been happening for a while now I have to drink water and keep cough drops.
Dang! i was worried i had this after googling food always stuck in the throat and not going down into the stomach. Dodged a bullet. Thank you for the informative video Doctor.
The best advice I can give because I had this cancer is if you get hart burn 🔥 or acid or find it hard to swallow go to you doctors asap and don’t leave it . It is more treatable the quicker you seek help .
Guys plss mention me i have a little hurt when i drink water and eat things i feel like i i streched my esophagus when im angry and then next day this happens to me im so scared but im not using tobacco im not drinking i have acid reflux but it didn't come for a month now is it esophagitis or esophageal cancer im so worried 😟 i dont wanna go to hospital
Is any one here in the comment section diagnosed with Barret’s esophagus for over 5 years and that has NOT turned into cancer? I have had Barret’s diagnosed for over 3 years now, my first endoscopy showed no displasia, but I haven’t checked again ever since, they say that only 1 out of 200 cases of Barret’s will ever turn into cancer, but for whatever reason every single case of people with Barret’s that I read ends up in cancer.
I had this cancer 2 years ago when I was 58 years old and am cured of it. The treatment is hard-radiation, chemo and a complicated surgery-but recovery is possible. For the surgery 3 conditions were required: no smoking, no overweight or underweight, no diabetes.
@PUC IRC Yes , here in Belgium for 5 years after treatment there is every 3 months a follow-up program( blood analysis and MRI scan) and no metastases we're detected. I was very lucky to be operated by a very able surgeon. I have no esophagus anymore and no functional stomach but surprisingly I lead a 90% normal life whitout heavy medication or hindrance, am fully at work and actually in better shape than before
My sister-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 adenocarcinoma esophageal cancer last July. Dye to the conditions you mentioned she was not a candidate for surgery. It's ten months later and she is still with us. They did not expect her to live beyond two months. She is on a strict modified keto diet and one month ago she started the Joe Tippens protocol. She is doing very well.
I just had a CTs scan for a stomach ache, that ended up being nothing, the next day the radiologist read my CT scan results and i got a call, they said my esophagus is thickened the ER doc who passed that info to me, said it can be cancer, over The phone, with no compassion and no real answers, so I'm waiting on my appointment, not for a month, I'm so scared
Hope this is not too late I have thickening of the esophagus too. When I had my scope it was found that I have a tortuous esophagus. It’s twisted. ?? Going in this year to go more test. I pray you are feeling better
I had a normal Z-line, but there were some small distal esophageal plaques. This was biopsied and sent off the table for specimen. Should I be worried!?
Thank you for making this video. I started having difficulty swallowing even water for the past couple years but it comes and goes. It's gotten to where sometimes when I swallow even liquids it backs up into my nasal cavity and that hurts like inhaling water through your nose. Since it's been going on a couple years with no weight loss does that make it more likely it's something less serious going on?
@@the_original_public_newsense glad to know it isn't something serious. I feels twisting feeling in chest with blockage in food pipe like feeling and inability to burp. It is sometimes accompanied by left chest pain
Thank you for a very informative video. I do have the feeling like my food doesn’t want to go down when I swallow. My doctor said it was because I have a very large herniated food tube. I still will call my gastro doctor and see if I need further exams. As always your videos are a up 👍 thanks stay safe, God bless you. 🙏
My brother in law was diagnosed 18 months ago with stage 3 esophagus cancer(9cm tumour) Unfortunately after months of chemotherapy and even radiation therapy, he sadly passed away recently. A very aggressive and deadly cancer. He did have symptoms prior to being diagnosed of difficulty in swallowing food etc, but like many, brushed it off as indigestion issues. the take home message here is, if you are feeling any of those symptoms, don`t hesitate to go see your Dr, it may just save your life.
My brother did the same, he thought this was indigestion issues, by the time we got him convinced to see a doctor it was too late, he was stage 4, he died 3 months later.
I know all too what this cancer can do. My brother passed away two years ago. Living in a remote place in Indian he just did not put a lot of stuff energy finding out what was wrong. Just indigestion!! He passed away in not a lot of pain. Additionally God saw to it after his suffering for more than a year. His last few months he could eat, drink like he was ok. The doctors could not explain. I guess the Best doctor in the world has the last word !! Thank you lord for taking him home in that manner!!
I have had acid reflux when I was young and have a lot of scarring and have been scoped two or three times and told not to worry about it. I have choked several times and had my throat stretched out procedure that did not help at all. All they say is that I have a large neck and muscle in there. I am not satisfied with this diagnosis. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
My GP called me today to go and see him and checked me out and sent me urgently to the ENT department and gave me a leaflet about possible susected cancer . the leaflet says that the urgency is to rule out cancer and if it is cancer ,it is best to treat it earlier. my symptoms are exactly what this video shows, terrible time eating solid and after eating I cough no stop to clear my throat and the cough is just dry. I can drink water with no issue, but I do feel a lump and sometimes I have pain. it all started after catching covid 8 months ago but it was just a very minor issue ,now it s very serious.
Hello, Dr, My Name Is Susan Boyd,Ive Been Fighting With Some Pains But Its In My Lungs & Back ? It Feels Like A Knife In My Back & Are Lungs When I Have An Attcak ? Thats What I Called Them Attacks ! Because It Hits Me In The Early Hrs &.Just Comes Out Of No Where ! & Am Throwing Up Nothing But Stinking Bile ? & No Foods ? Thanks ! If You Have Any Feed Back For Me Thanks ! Much Susan Boyd ,Ca.
Hi you may need you esopagus tube that enters in to the stomach tighten and if you have a gall badder it may need removal. I had those symptons years ago. You need to see a Doctor because I went to long and the vomiting and bile burned my esophagus so that it developed pre cancer of the esophagus.
I have been suffering for years since 1979! I am now 69, and occasionally have to have my esophagus stretched. Presently, I'm having problems with heartburn even though I'm currently on prescription medication. I feel that all those years of having my esophagus stretched, my sphincter is just too "opened." My doctor is hesitant to perform corrective surgery because I may be back to square one with having my food get stuck! Try not to worry. At least you're proactive and seeing a specialist. Good luck and God bless.
I’ve been having pain/tightness in my chest, tight throat, random pains in esophagus (esp where esophagus meets stomach), constantly having contents from stomach come up. Can’t hardly eat anything without having food contents coming up so I’m on a pretty bland diet. I’m on dexilant, sucralfate, and zegerid and none of these are curing me. Was on Prilosec and protonix but they didn’t work either. I’ve dealt with reflux for a few years. I’m terrified this could be cancer since no ppi’s or otc’s are working (they’ve helped but haven’t cured). I’m miserable. I’m only 26 and I’m scared this could be esophageal cancer. My appointment for an endoscopy is in 2 weeks so we’ll see what he says. Hoping for the best...
I HAVE BREAST CANCER AND I HAD CHEMO AND RADIATION. 😟 AND NOW I HAVE A HARD TIME EATING AND DRINKING..😞 AND I PRAY THAT I CAN HAVE ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY. 😇🌻🌞 I'M SO GRATEFUL TO MY GREAT GOD FOR GIVING ME MORE TIME. I JUST WANT TO GROW OLD WITH MY BELOVED HUBBY AND MY SWEET DOGGY. 👱♀️💕🐕👱♂️ WE'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR OVER 42 YEARS. 💕💕
Please tell me wat are the symptoms of breast cancer
Look up the anti cancer institute and get the book-killing cancer not people. You’ll be amazed what you can do with targeted foods!
@@zahwaglam4782 use a lotion to make your skin slippery and use the end of your fingers to feel for lumps push not to hard and in a circular motion feel the muscle type flesh for lumps check all the breasts including the sides towards the armpits also have you noticed weight change or other things that have changed like weight pains feeling lethargic or nauseous these are just some things I know as I'm a man so don't know alot my best advice is see a doctor as soon as possible if your worried
This is going to sound weird, but this guy had stage four cancer in four different places in his body veterinarian told him to try FENBENDAZOLE a few months later he was cancer free. I told the story and then three other people messaged me on my Facebook and told me the same thing with one of their family members are their friends.
Also, I had lung cancer and I have not had a recurrence in two years after I had my upper right lobe removed and then afterwards starting to eat broccoli sprouts three times a week. You can look up how to grow them right here on UA-cam. John Hopkins university tried to patent broccoli sprouts, but it was denied because it is a natural substance and there is a sulforaphane in broccoli sprouts. not just broccoli you have to eat the sprouts. It has 10 times the amount and eat them raw not cooked. I put them on my egg sandwich.
My first husband died of this twenty two years ago . It was not discovered until a couple months before he died. I want to say, when life is hardest, God carried us. The last days my husband got saved and Holy Spirit baptized. He said the Bible meant everything to him.
my father died of Esophageal Cancer last thursday. Please go to a doctor, the pain you cause on yourself and your families is not worth it. Stay strong.
Sorry for your loss. Im sure he experienced difficulty swallowing (i currently experience this and am scheduling a screening for cancer), what other symptoms did your father display. Bless him and your family
@@michaelciullo4788 thank you, this means a lot to me! Primarily reflux and not being able to swallow resulting in him vomitted it out again. He had reflux for a few years and did drink alcohol every day (not always getting drunk, but a glass of wine or whiskey). He lost lot's of weight and got tired pretty quick.
I hope you do well and it's not cancer, bless you!
I’m so sorry
My mom also died of esophgeal cancer too on July 2024 I’m so sad she was so good to us I love her so much now I will also go with her
@@heikrujamkishan6507stay strong and live life happily.. don’t think of off the past much
My mum had this cancer she fought hard to beat it but unfortunately she passed away 12 months after diagnosis, she was just 60 years old I miss her everyday , i wish all the best to those whom have been diagnosed and hope they get through everything to be cancer free and live a longer happy life , god bless xx
I'm sorry that your mom, you and your family had to go through this. May the Lord bring you peace beyond all understanding and put his loving arms around you. God bless you.
@@johannabhattarai3789 what stage was it when you first detected it and what were the symptoms?
My husband was diagnosed in May of 2021 of non-small cell Adenocarcinoma stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was not a candidate for surgery or radiation as the cancer is in his lymph nodes. He has never had reflux but did smoke many years ago. He is only a social drinker, no liquor. He’s been through chemo in combination with immunotherapy for the initial 3 months but immunotherapy only since. He is doing quite well but has just developed a rash that is quite pronounced. I’m concerned that the doctors will stop his treatment and praying for a miracle.
For all of you, I ask God to love, bless, and protect you and your loved ones from the ravages of all cancers. 🙏
You and your husband are in my prayers 🙏 ❤ 💕
@@lauriecoon1114 Thank-you. May God Bless you.
I hardly ever drank, but over 40 years ago was a light smoker for about 25 years, never ate very spicy foods in my life, I'm in my early 80's and noticed a few months ago I had suddenly trouble swallowing and pain, but my Dr. thought it was acid reflux, heartburn, but even with Meds it did not help so I got 8 weeks (had to wait) later a Endoscopy test that said, stage 2 cancer, nobody in my family had it and they all smoked, some drank, but you can live a model life and do nothing wrong like smoking, drinking or eating spicy foods and get it , I do not want surgery at my age, it involves a 2 week hospital stay and then if you live alone like I do a 8 week nursing home stay, at my age the risk of infection and dying are to great for me to risk, in my opinion and that of two out of three doctors say a nasty operation, especially of course at me age, so I had the chemo and radiation, just finished it , and now can swallow better, but of course need tests, (Endoscopy) to see how much the tumor shrunk , most people die after a few years anyhow From this, it can spread to other organs according to statistics I read, but many don't , sadly I had it for a few months before even my GP Doctor suspected anything, not his fault, but I had to wait two more months for the test, health care here in our country is expensive and slow, you better have good insurance or lots of money or you die, I'm old but I am also so sad for younger folks with it, and depressed myself over this horrible painful disease, all I have left too enjoy is food, and that is hard to do when you cannot swallow well and have chest pain, but chemo and radiation help me a lot and I am better. Chemo is much improved, so you are not sick from it these days and radiation gives you a bad sore throat for a couple of months, but helps a lot , I did not need a food tube luckily. so Good luck, if you have family your lucky, I don't anymore. .
Any update?
@@di3dsudd3nly, he just finished another round of chemo before going back to Cleveland for new scans, which looked stable. He’s currently on a chemo break before starting chemo orally in September. Have you ever hated and loved something at the same time? I feel that way about chemo. The side effects are brutal. Thank-you so much for following up, it’s greatly appreciated. 🙏
You are the only Doc that has made an attempt to tell the people less severe symptoms. The BEST vid by far.
I think the reason it is detected late is the doctors miss it!!!
It is not the people going late, it is the doctors who dismiss the symptoms as acid reflux, a virus or a sore throat.
I don't know which is your personal experience, but I can assure you that when a doctor has suspicion that a patient can have an esophageal cancer he won't dismiss the symptoms and will start the diagnostic process to confirm that suspicion.
lizanne my physician ordered an endoscopy after hearing of my symptoms. I was scoped 2 weeks later and diagnosed with Barrett's.
I have seen 3 doctors, finally I got one to book me a visit with an ENT. I have to wait till August!! Could be dead by then!!
lizanne well good luck. Hopefully something with an easy fix. I get scoped this summer 🔦👀
Yes!! i agree with you. Aparently i'm too young to have any issues, but i know my body and i know whats not normal but if you're persistent like me they chalk it up to stress and anxiety, ugg.
my dad was diagnosed with this cancer on friday 9th october 2020 , i found him dead the next day in his kitchen , watching these videos to try get some answers to his sudden death , miss him loads xxx
So sorry to hear that .
So
Sorry to hear you lost your dad so quickly. May he RIP . Sending you much love ❤️
This isn’t the kind of thing where you might drop dead, suddenly......Have you considered that it might of been suicide?
@@shucksful I was thinking the same thing. It wouldn't have killed him this quick. I would be asking for an autopsy
Sorry for your loss. I feel your terrible pain. I've lost both my parents to cancer. Sudden or a slow death, doesn't make it any easier losing your parents :-(
My dad is currently battling stage IV esophageal cancer. It is horrible. It started with difficulty swallowing. He started chemo but what really helped his swallowing was getting cryotherapy on the main esophageal tumor. It helps instantly. He got it done at CTCA in Phoenix AZ.
What is cryotherapy?
My dad passed away from this in February 2020. He was a heavy drinker and tobaco user. 83. He presented systems in October. Then chemo and radiation. Till just a few days after the treatments ended. Things went down hill. Hospice. He took the easy way. So no further life savings methods. It was just pain with drinking or eating. We made him comfortable.
I've felt the worst guilt for not helping him more. To keep him alive longer. Seeing this. Now. He made the right decision. It would have been terrible. Thank you. This releases me from the pain and guilt.
God Bless you, I'm sorry for the loss of your Father. You are not to blame. Your Father would want you to go on with your life.
Be grateful for your father lived to 83
83? What is there to complain about?
My brother passed away a week ago from this. By the time he found out he had it, he only lived 4 more months. A strong man was reduced to no strength in his body at all. My parents had to watch him waste away. It’s a terrible cancer.
I'm so sorry 😥
Sorry bro😢😢
Yes
@@rosieds4996 what was the stage when you detected it and what were the symptoms?
A number of these symptoms are also reflected in Trotsky’s Ring. A constricted oesophagus.
Food becomes stuck.
Water to force it down often comes back up. Violent coughing to loosen it can work. I have had this for over 3 decades.
So good to know I don’t have cancer
Shit!. My endoscopy result revealed that I have Intestinal Metaplasia of the gastric cardia aka the GE junction.
Never seen such an wonderful discussion . any one can understand the content . thank you sir.
That was very informative. I believe that my father may have suffered from this because he often had indigestion to a very high extent. Eventually he complained about extreme back pain and headaches as well as a anemia. They ran all kinds of test, but what you are describing to me it looks like the doctors missed it completely after all the test they had done. We were at the hospital at least once a month and they ran every scan & test available. The last time I went to the hospital they diagnose him with cancer of the brain and spine and gave him 3 to 6 months to live. I wish I had seen this video earlier and I would shown it to the doctors and I believe I could have probably had saved his life. Now I'm starting to have a esophageal issues and have scheduled an appointment to get that investigated more. Again thank you for your informative video.
Update?
@@ForeverChiTonight Do you mean on me? If so I did have tests done and my issues were with a narrowing at the opening right where your esophagus goes into the stomach. They placed a balloon at the narrowing and it seems to have worked for a little while, but I feel as if it's reversing again and I will monitor the situation.
Because of the constant throwing up (because of the narrowing) I found out that I was anemic, even though I have a little too much meat on my bones, and you can be anemic and be overweight as well at the same time.... who knew! I found that out by unfortunately going into the emergency room because of low hemoglobin. I was at a 3, normal levels are supposed to be between a 12-16, optimally! So needless to say I was on death's door. They found out I had other issues and I spent 4 days in the hospital and 3 pints of blood later.
I am a Nurse but i am learning again from you.
I complained for months to my doctor I had pains in the chest the then the back and she still didn't listen eventually it got so bad I couldn't keep anything down not even water so I decided to go to the hospital thinking if was a heart attack only to be told it was cancer. It was almost curtains for me the head surgeon didn't want to operate so a Spanish lady surgeon did the removed Esophageal 2 thirds of my stomach removed a rib and cancer in my lymthnodes I was choking on food so they stretched my throat then I got skin cancer around the eye. I'm still here thanks to my surgeon family and they prayers but not to my doctor in Birmingham uk who didn't listen now I hear my brother hs prostate cancer I'm gutted please pray for my brother George 🙏
God Bless you Joseph. You are one tough person. I'm sorry to hear your brother George has Prostate Cancer. I was diagnosed with it June 2010. I had robotic surgery August 2010. I'm still here. I was positive 9 out of the 12 biopsies that were removed when I was diagnosed. Fortunately the cancer cells did not spread to other parts of my body. It was caught early enough. I had no symptoms other than my PSA had risen sharply from the year before. Gearge has a very good chance he will survive.
Hi pal amazing inspiring story how are you getting on?
Oh wow see what if u had died that blood what I have been on that doctors hand thank God that he brong u before the right doctor and my name is George also I pray for u and your brother George healing
This guy is a great teacher
Thank you, Joanna
Thank you so much for your video.
I suggest you add to your videos the diagnosis and the treatment to make it deeper and complete.
Thanks again.
You welcome, Zamza.
I'm preparing new videos with all aspects of each type of cancer.
Thank you for your suggestion.
That really was a no nonsense summary of this terrible disease. I wish I had never heard of it. Best results are if detected early, yet it's progression is so subtle, making it difficult to detect at the early stage. It is an absolute nightmare.
Shit!. My endoscopy result revealed that I have Intestinal Metaplasia of the gastric cardia aka the GE junction.
I've been diagnosed with early stage EC but don't fancy the treatment so will take my chances which I understand to be very low (how low I don't know). So, it's good that, given the lack of decent information out there, someone has made this video for the questions that people in my condition ask. I don't really intend to go through all the horrors that may await me, so nice to know when the time comes to bail out before going down with the ship
I was diagnosed with EC in February of 2022. I went through chemo and radiation. I was in apparent remission for a few months, but then it came back. They offered an esophagectomy, but I'm not interested.
@@alneal100 It's a tough operation to take, and even if successful, only 1 in 2 are still alive 5 years later. Of course it's a very personal choice and if I had a lot of dependency on me then I may have felt more guilty about opting out. Someone like me with an early stage T1b is offered this op because it's the only way to guarantee getting it all out, but all in all, it's not for me and I'd rather do the risk assessment and take my chances that it won't return. If it does then it was my choice and I'm glad I flipped the coin. What this video does is give me signs to look out for in case it spreads and It's not noticed otherwise. The medical community don't always tell you all you need to know.
@@nosredna2 That's really tough 9 days
Try Fenbendazole protocol or cannabis oil. Good luck
@@sallyfowler1918any remedy for chronic hyperacidity that' been there for last 25 years
If your having issues with reflux and swallowing, get yourself a very good Gastroenterologist. It's highly likely you have a Hiatus Hernia. Don't assume it's simply a part of aging. My mother and her two brothers suffered with reflux and all three had Hiatus Hernias. Only one uncle use to get his esophagus stretched. So I just learned to live with mine. By the time I seeked help, I had too be operated on to repair my gaint hiatal hernia that required a fundiplicatiin wrap. It had become an issue that needed surgery almost immediately.
I was placed on a low dose of blood pressure medication used off label. It was well tolerated until my country became in short supply, meaning the medication that worked the best suddenly became unavailable. There was no substitute available.
I was diagnosed with that hernia this year not nice cause it creates a divertical colon in my body because of my reflux over the years and taking omaprozole meds that destroyed my stomach over the years taking it not happy so I'm taking myself off those meds that is repairing one part of my body but destroying other parts 😢
Can you order your medicine from Canada?
yes. i have also hiatal hernia grade b. and it worsen and worsen. like anxiety symptoms
Did you ever find the cure??@@sonialewis8153
Start a Go Fund Me account.
This video is an awesome presentation in patient freindly language.
So educational and informative. Could not have been done any better.
Amazing caring doctor.
Enjoy every day like it is the last and stop living for money and processions because neither will save you
I totally agree with you!
Money will help a lot tho
What’s the point of living then?…
Great video describing this cancer. exactly what I was told at my doctor. When in doubt go see a doctor.... if you detect this cancer early it can be cured. I'm a survivor of this cancer because I caught it early.
That's the key: an early diagnose can save many, many lives. I'm glad you're OK.
Great to hear what was early sign for you.thanks
That’s great. My husband was diagnosed yesterday. I’m so worried. They said it hasn’t spread so I’m hoping that is a good thing
what were your early symptoms
@@leebeex8 What is her present condition?
Rip Dad. This video is exacly the expirences that happened
I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a father is a big pain.
Daniel González M.D. especially at such a young. Thank you very much sir
Grandfather just passed in april. He stopped eating Thanksgiving and took medical department till march to find it.
Wish I came across this video couple of years ago. Year ago today how my mum died from this cancer. Happened so fast. She died two weeks after being diagnosed. Wish I knew about the symptoms earlier so I could persuade mom to have endoscopy she kept refusing to have.
Thank you doctor for your videos. For people who want to understand their bodies your information is very welcome 🙏
That’s terrible. I’m sorry for your loss.
sorry for your loss.
I was diagnosed in September with an Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus just at the junction of the oesophagus and stomach. I have my next cycle of Chemo finishing on New Years Eve. I will be having my stomach and much of my oesophagus removed mid January, via keyhole surgery, followed by 4 more cycles of FLOT Chemotherapy. The Doctor believes I have a chance of a total cure because the Pet scans indicate that it hasn’t metastasised outside the GI Tract.The only symptom I had was I noticed my stools were much darker than usual and the Doctor recommended a gastroscopy, as the dark stools could indicate bleeding higher up than the bowel, which uncovered. My advice is to be very observant of any changes in your body and bowel moments. This cancer is becoming very prevalent and has a very, very poor survival rate if not caught early!
Good luck to you . I am also going though a possible achalasia. All the best. Take care.
You are going to make it..don’t give up, even on harder days. See the victory!
Wishing you the very best of luck and a prompt recovery my brother. Hope you well and defeat this terrible disease!
Thanks for your story. Succes and all the good luck in the world ik wish you. 💖💖💖🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
All the very best to you Michael.
I just come here to encourage somebody today I want you to known GOD is a healer and GOD is the one that give life not men so trust GOD with your life there is nothing that GOD can’t do there is not sickness GOD can’t heal I know about it because GOD heal me I was fighting for 3 month and the doctor 👨⚕️ couldn’t do nothing so if GOD heal me who are you there he can’t do the same for
Bible verse from Sirach 38:1-4 1. Make friends with the doctor, for he is essential to you. God has also established him in his profession. 2. From God the doctor has wisdom and from the king he receives sustenance. 3. Knowledge makes the doctor distinguished, and gives access to those in authority. 4. God makes the earth yield healing herbs which the prudent should not neglect. Always, God's will be done.
Amen,something moving at my throat and vomiting blood
Of course it is God the creator so he will fix anything he wishes when he sees fit, but sometimes when he does not there is usually a very good reason for that and we must accept it.As we say there is always bright light after a dark tunnel so we need be brave and to trust God. Peace
Praise the Lord
Amen
I have all symptoms of this cancer. I'm 22 and have had GERD since I was roughly 16. Lanzoprazole has become useless and have been prescribed the highest dose of omeprazole whilst I wait for my endoscopy. The trouble swallowing food has become a real problem for me. Just been discharged from hospital after 3 days under assessment due to extremely low blood pressure from not being able to eat. Even drinking water has become hard. Doctors think I have this but with spread to the lymph nodes , kidneys , stomach and bowels. I am not scared of death, but I am scared of a painful one. Hopefully I do not have this horrible disease as I have a mate who's been told he has no more than 8 months to live after being diagnosed with stage 4 esophagas cancer. My heart goes out to all of you surviving with such a dehumanizing illness.
@Jon Jonny
I wish you are doing well
Have faith In GOD don’t lost hope GOD can heal all thing his a healer
@jon
Mate hope u r okay, I hope u don’t have this.
Please update us
My dad has stag 4 and he has no idea, I kept him in dark
We caught it early and had chemo for 5 sessions
I could not do much after as taliban came to Afghanistan and had to leave the country
Now in Pakistan, doctors said that he needs to be on drugs as long as he survives
I pray for all
How are you ?
You are a very good teacher.
Thanks for your kind words.
I was in car accident,trouble eating. I sleep with my head high. Belly bloated. Tired out,dizzy & don’t want to go to doctors. I pray things get better.
I hope you cured
Please go to the doctor. my husband was in a fender bender 3 years ago and the air bag deployed. He felt fine except a few weeks later he could not stop huccupoing. His doctor prescribed an over the counter acid blocker. I think 3 years down the line that accident caused damage that lead to esophageal cancer. Doctors could not find it and treated him for other issues. Hindsight tqhe cancer spread to his brain, liver and other organs. We only had 3 weeks between diagnosis and his death on July 23, 2021. This is a horrible way to die, we were married 35 years.
If your body us giving you symptoms you are fortunate. Please push your fear aside and get medical help. I'm begging you.
White Wolf, I strongly advise you to immediately go see a Doctor about your symptoms. PLEASE. I'M not a Doctor but I feel your symptoms will not go away. The longer you wait the more damage can be done. PLEASE PLEASE SEE A DOCTOR.
@@denisesaxton790 am so sorry for your loss.
Get a doc that specialized your experiencing
My late Father had an hiatal hernia and at the time was told the operation to fix it would be very painful like cutting through a rib bone, sorry long story short he suffered reflux had a miner heart attack , years of gastrol medicine throat losanges, he was diagnosed with a 2cm pollip ( cancer ) in his stomach/ esophageal cancer, at the time he had a camera down his throat i asked why did they just not cut it off it was small, anway they put hikm on chemo first dose caused him to have a stroke , could not speak to us again properlly, hurt to eat anything going wild with pain, started him on radiation to source finished the time then said oh hang on your still alive said he needed one more week i said no Dad dont do it he dies the next week, so cancer treatments are still not known , i beleive the treatment killed him
So very sorry..l saw my Mom suffer til she passed away due to this idiotic health system. Money isn't important but it is if you're forced to go to horrible city hospitals for your care, getting bags full of harmful RX's. Again if sure hurts to go through this. Now l'm almost reaching her age and trying my best to not let history repeat itself. Thank you for being there for your Dad. Take care of yourself, Blessings to you and your loved ones 💐
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Very well illustrated with excellent explanation .Thank you Dok for your kindness .More power to your advocacy. God bless you
My father died of this 18 months ago, wasn’t picked up early enough and so it was very difficult watching him die a bit more every day and suffering a great deal of pain....terrible disease!
My mother in law died one month ago due to this cancer..... pathetic disease
I went through it too with my brother, I watched him fade away from a muscular man to become emaciated, it was very painful to witness, the cancer literally consumed his body.
Did he drink coffe?
@@rl8087
Coffee is fine but it can contribute to acid reflux.
r.i.p to my aunt who died of throat cancer
Im so sorry for lose 😔😔
I used to drink a lot of hot tea with very little milk in it. I was irritating the lining of my esophagus and had symtoms of G.E R D. Stopped drinking the tea and felt alot better, symtoms improved within weeks. Very hot tea drank frequently is not good for the esophagus.
I don’t drink hot liquids and I am waiting on my biopsy. Praying it’s not this.
@@BreezeWithAfricahow are you?
@ It’s going good. I was diagnosed Crohn's disease it runs in the family thanks for checking up.
@@BreezeWithAfrica thanks for replying, I'm glad you're doing better
Thank you so much for these videos, they are very informative and and nicely explained.
A hiatal hernia also produces almost all of the same symptoms. Also allergies can do some weird things causing choking feeling and trouble breathing.
Oh really. I was Dx'd with hiatal hernia in the 80s and they never said anything needs to be done about it. Do they go away on their own?
@@the_original_public_newsense My late Father had an hiatal hernia and at the time was told the operation to fix it would be very painful like cutting through a rib bone, sorry long story short he suffered reflux had a miner heart attack , years of gastrol medicine throat losanges, he was diagnosed with a 2cm pollip ( cancer ) in his stomach/ esophageal cancer, at the time he had a camera down his throat i asked why did they just not cut it off it was small, anway they put hikm on chemo first dose caused him to have a stroke , could not speak to us again properlly, hurt to eat anything going wild with pain, started him on radiation to source finished the time then said oh hang on your still alive said he needed one more week i said no Dad dont do it he dies the next week, so cancer treatments are still not known , i beleive the treatment killed him
Hi I have had esophageal cancer. I believe it was stage 2 at localised to the esophagus. I was very lucky that it was very difficult to swallow foods as you explained so I knew thing was very wrong. My specialist diagnosed Barretts oesophagus and cancer after an endoscopy. I had cross therapy. ie. radio and chemo therapy. Then 3 weeks ago, I had surgery using the Ivor Lewis method. I am now very saw still where they opened me up and the right part of my chest. It is still painful when I cough, sneeze or laugh, not as bad as when I was discharged from hospital 2 weeks ago. Now though, I find it hard to eat properly because if I have too much I get an agonising pain in my abdomen only to be relieved by belching or burping. I almost rang an ambulance twice wanting to be rushed back to the ward. I am now so careful to eat very small meals but more often, say 5 meals a day. I am scared to drink also fearing it may fill me up. Any advice at this stage of my journey. My specialist hopefully can answer my questions when I finally see him. I also would like to know whether the cancer can rear its ugly head again even though I have a brand new esophagus and suspect lymph nodes were cut out.
I had chemo and radio therapy and the Lewis operation 4 years ago. Now at 63 of age I have fully recovered and am in fact in better condition than before diagnosis. Living without an esophagus is an adaptation but is perfectly feasible. I must say that the operation is done now in Europe without opening of the chest.
@@christianwouters6764 Hi, I am eating quite normally now, just entre size meals. How long did it take you to get to full fitness, like going back to work full time? I am on immunotherapy now once a fortnight to ensure the beast doesn't return. My oncologist is pretty confident the drug will work, it just leaves me fatigued.
@@Alpha_7227 I went back to work 2 weeks after I left hospital. Don't take any medication now. This recovery is exceptional, the doctors were and are surprised. But it is possible.
@@christianwouters6764 If I told my surgeon that he'd be completely surprised. It hurt like hell when I coughed, sneezed or laughed - that didn't go away until a month later. I was still extremely sore 6 weeks afterwards. He said patients take a good year or so to recover. You must have been a very fit person prior to the operation with a great positive attitude. I have just returned to work last month, only 2 days a week, for 5 hours because I just get fatigued - I am putting it down to the immunotherapy drug though. I am looking to be fully fit by the start of the school year in Feb next year.
@@Alpha_7227 I am no doctor, but I think the minimal invasive operation technique is better than the opening of the thorax
Thank you very much for this very interesting video sir. Sadly my grandfather suffered and died from this awful disease (and had liver secondaries) in 1950s
Blessings and peace
Thank you for these videos it will save lives
One of my relative have esophageal cancer, i hope he will get well soon.
I hope so too
I hope he gets better. Good luck!
Did he die?
Great video. Good job. Thankyou for the info. My son is a smoker and I worry.
I'm glad you like it.
Tell your son he should stop smoking. It's the best thing he could do for his health.
Thank you, Doctor, for a great video, very well presented, it has a good flow to register each step. I subscribed.
I'm glad you like the video, Burcsi.
Thanks for subscribing!
Wow so I'm not alone by myself I'm 24 years old man having problems eating not wanting to eat and I even when I want to eat I feel like my brain is telling my body not to eat and I'm losing weight and definitely having trouble swallowing and shortness of breath lord I pray 🙏🏿 pray right now I'm the name of Jesus Christ for everyone that has comment about going through this cancer or someone that has lost a loved one because of this cancer I pray in the name of Jesus Christ god that will be with us in this dark time lord I pray against this cancer that's attacking the inside of are physical body which u have created I come against these cancer lord that u will make a way out of no way lord I pray that help are brain cells and organs anything that is not right break it and remove it In Jesus name
Keep the faith don't give up seek help also . Prayers for u
Amen
@@Rayray-jo9wsAmen 🙏
great information doctor thank you very much!!!!
You welcome!
@@DoctordanielgonzalezMD thank you so much for telling it like it is!
Excellent and easy to understand thankyou doctor great service
Bravo Dr! God bless you.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the video.
Very educative, thanks
Very good explanatory video.
Thanks!
Daniel Gonzalez M.D *Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your video,it helps to understand what is happening.😇
You welcome. I'm glad you like the video, Anna.
Thank you to explain so well to understand.🙏
You know what I never see on ANY esophageal cancer video? The smaller symptoms ever. I have not been diagnosed yet but, I am sure. My symptoms mucus, sputum production with VERY light bleeding, I mean most would miss it. Mornings are worse, bubbly gut mid to lower stomach. I have main symptoms as well : dysphagia but can swallow ok for now, weight loss,. Barium swallow friday so I will find out. If its EC I hope its not stage 4. I have no pain when I swallow, no black stools or vomit. Scared af.
On blood thinners
Have "small" hiatal Hernia
drank heavy back in the day, moderately the last 3 years
smoked 17 years ago
May 2021 Endoscopy esophogus ok
Dec 2022 CT scan with contrast caught nothing and while not gold standard for EC
I have had 3 Xrays the last month of my chest which does show the esophagus with no findings
You may have Barrets esophagus
@canbreezy we had the same situation 3 xray all negative, barium swallow looks normal, ct scan last December 2022 also negative. My symptoms are feeling a lump in my throat, excessive saliva, and hard to swallow, btw how's your barrium swallow test?
@cabreezy123 ask for a gastroscope. I have Barrett’s and have them regularly to take biopsies for cancer. Good luck
So what is the cause of your symptoms if your endoscopy came back clear?
Hope you're doing fine now
Excellent! I love the amateur drawings.
Yeah, they look like kids' drawings. Awesome!
Can’t tell if you meant that ironically or not lol
Has ANYONE ever beat cancer if the esophagus?
Yes many people has
I lost my mum and dad to Esophageal cancer. It’s a horrible wasting disease. By the time you get diagnosed it’s usual to late. It’s already spread to other organs. 😢😓😭
Happened to my brother, by the time the symptoms were obvious he was stage 4, too late by then.
@@DG-nv3nn how old was he? Sorry for your loss.
@@DG-nv3nn how long did he wait?
My dad too suffered horribly69
Found this very informative. Thank you so much!
very good explanation, thank you
You welcome!
All this is signs and symptoms are totally true but is salient cancer that by the time it is diagnose the patient is already on stage four and in critical conditions my husband pass away of 43 years and doctor never caught it and according to doctor my husband blood level were normal and were not able to understand was going on plus treatment took another month until Insurance’s give us approval by the time care was given was just to expand his life for couple month’s . Now he is in heaven.
Awww I'm sorry
Doctors are useless
I am so sorry for your loss😟 I have trouble swallowing and food getting stuck between my chest and I can feel a lump around where the food if getting stuck.. sometimes the food comes back out with all this mucous..also have grape like things that come out of my colon when I strain to pee..but I have not lost weight and my drs. Believe it is an autoimmune disease..did he lose weight by any chance? Also did he have bug biting sensations all over body ? So he never had symptoms??
I'm so sorry for your loss. My husband passed due to lung cancer, and the doctor wouldn't even do a blood check for months. Then, when they did, he was already stage 4 . After 30 years together, we got 9 months and 9 days , 40 weeks and 4 days. He was 45. Stay Golden 🌟
@@daybyday0731 how are you now ?
I have something call Barrett’s esophagus. I have EGDs every few years. What are the chances it will eventually turn into EC? Will it ever go away?
It won't go away but only a 1 in 20 chance of it turning cancerous
It has no serious complication other than irritation and pain.
Hardly will it turn into cancer.
@@243david7 It's not 1 in 20, it's 1 in 200. And it's more common in men.
Start taking fenbendazole now.
How long have you had with Barret’s? How often do you have endoscopies to check it? I first got diagnosed with barret’s 3 years ago, no displasia was found back then, I haven’t gotten another endoscopy ever since. I’m a bit scared that whenever I have a new endoscopy they could find something else.
About 3 years ago i started choking and having difficulty swallowing i also was spitting up blood in the mornings. Had a endoscopy an turned out to be oesophigitis from a hiatus hernia where the acid was splashing up into the throat. Been on ppi since and all fine
What is ppi?
Suzette.. a proton pump inhibitor, a medication that reduces the production of acid in your stomach
I have been gagging all day and night like dry itchy throat sometimes it’s so bad I throw up. It feels dry and I’m not sure why it’s been happening for a while now I have to drink water and keep cough drops.
Sounds like allergies and severe post nasal drip.
Are you also burping a lot or having reflux??
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing
A well explained video. Thank you
You welcome, Rosalind
I am very pleased to find your channel. I just subscribed.
Dang! i was worried i had this after googling food always stuck in the throat and not going down into the stomach. Dodged a bullet. Thank you for the informative video Doctor.
What was your problem?
The best advice I can give because I had this cancer is if you get hart burn 🔥 or acid or find it hard to swallow go to you doctors asap and don’t leave it . It is more treatable the quicker you seek help .
Thank you for sharing this information!! ♥️✝️
The best I've seen in a long time thank you from a fellow Doctor, Dr Debbie M Bebington
Excellent video thanks
You welcome!
Thank you so much !Im glad i watched this video.
Guys plss mention me i have a little hurt when i drink water and eat things i feel like i i streched my esophagus when im angry and then next day this happens to me im so scared but im not using tobacco im not drinking i have acid reflux but it didn't come for a month now is it esophagitis or esophageal cancer im so worried 😟 i dont wanna go to hospital
Well you better go with your dr,
How are you doing? did you go see a doctor?
How are you now ?
My 45 year old brother has swallowing problems but he wont go to the doctor and i have to listen to him going on and on. Oh well
My brother was the same, he died 3 months later.
Well according to stats what the point of going to the doctor?
My ex husband recently died, he had esophagus cancer that spread to his lungs then to his brain, killed him in a yr & a half
Sorry for your loss.
You take any tratment like kimo or radiation
Is any one here in the comment section diagnosed with Barret’s esophagus for over 5 years and that has NOT turned into cancer? I have had Barret’s diagnosed for over 3 years now, my first endoscopy showed no displasia, but I haven’t checked again ever since, they say that only 1 out of 200 cases of Barret’s will ever turn into cancer, but for whatever reason every single case of people with Barret’s that I read ends up in cancer.
You need to be monitoring it at the most every 3 years. It is time for you to get another endoscopy!
Its about 2-3 people in 1000 ger cancer from this.
7 years no cancer ( still fit and healthy 💪
@@darrenprior9842 7 years with Barret’s? What about hiatal hernia?
@Luison40 no just barrets had the latest endoscopy this week.
I’ve had thyroid n parathyroid Cancer I have these symptoms
But the weight doesn’t fall off of me
Thank so much doc, u explained it very well
🌿🌹 These videos are very enlightening. Thanks a ton and God bless you !
I had this cancer 2 years ago when I was 58 years old and am cured of it. The treatment is hard-radiation, chemo and a complicated surgery-but recovery is possible. For the surgery 3 conditions were required: no smoking, no overweight or underweight, no diabetes.
@PUC IRC Yes , here in Belgium for 5 years after treatment there is every 3 months a follow-up program( blood analysis and MRI scan) and no metastases we're detected. I was very lucky to be operated by a very able surgeon. I have no esophagus anymore and no functional stomach but surprisingly I lead a 90% normal life whitout heavy medication or hindrance, am fully at work and actually in better shape than before
No more esaphogus? What do you eat if I can ask?
Also are there any visible signs for this cancer?
My sister-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 adenocarcinoma esophageal cancer last July. Dye to the conditions you mentioned she was not a candidate for surgery. It's ten months later and she is still with us. They did not expect her to live beyond two months. She is on a strict modified keto diet and one month ago she started the Joe Tippens protocol. She is doing very well.
@@christianwouters6764 Shit!. My endoscopy result revealed that I have Intestinal Metaplasia of the gastric cardia aka the GE junction.
Well explained video. Thankyou
I just had a CTs scan for a stomach ache, that ended up being nothing, the next day the radiologist read my CT scan results and i got a call, they said my esophagus is thickened the ER doc who passed that info to me, said it can be cancer, over The phone, with no compassion and no real answers, so I'm waiting on my appointment, not for a month, I'm so scared
What kind of symptoms do you have,because I’m have Pain my kidney and I’m can’t swallow well and pain in my chests like heartburn
So they checked with a regular CT scan ?
What happened at your appointment? Please update us
Hope this is not too late I have thickening of the esophagus too. When I had my scope it was found that I have a tortuous esophagus. It’s twisted. ?? Going in this year to go more test. I pray you are feeling better
I had a normal Z-line, but there were some small distal esophageal plaques. This was biopsied and sent off the table for specimen. Should I be worried!?
Omg I have these symptoms it hurts to swallow water
How are u doing?
How are you doing?
I am worrying myself. It started with a tightening sensation in my chest while eating could this be cancer?
Thank you for making this video. I started having difficulty swallowing even water for the past couple years but it comes and goes. It's gotten to where sometimes when I swallow even liquids it backs up into my nasal cavity and that hurts like inhaling water through your nose. Since it's been going on a couple years with no weight loss does that make it more likely it's something less serious going on?
Wait, you have had that from years ago and haven’t gotten an endoscopy? Why?
Did you find out what it was??
@bhaveshsharma8422 had an endoscopy and they said some inflammation in the lining of my stomach but esophagus is fine. Doesn't feel fine.
@@the_original_public_newsense glad to know it isn't something serious. I feels twisting feeling in chest with blockage in food pipe like feeling and inability to burp. It is sometimes accompanied by left chest pain
Too late for my brother stage 3 esophageal cancer suffered with stomach acid for years
It’s never too late. Seek alternative treatment - fenbendazole, ivermectin, cannabis oil, melatonin….
Stage 3 treatment there ? Please let me know my father having same
@@PraveenKumar-yz5zp standard stage 3 treatment in U.K. is chemo, radio, op, immunotherapy.
@@sallyfowler1918any remedy for chronic hyperacidity??
great video, thank you doctor
I already have cancer so i don't have to worry about the warning that it may cause cancer.
Shit!. My endoscopy result revealed that I have Intestinal Metaplasia of the gastric cardia aka the GE junction.
Thank you for a very informative video. I do have the feeling like my food doesn’t want to go down when I swallow. My doctor said it was because I have a very large herniated food tube. I still will call my gastro doctor and see if I need further exams. As always your videos are a up 👍 thanks stay safe, God bless you. 🙏
Great video would you be able to do one on Asthma and farmers lung 👍
i had the flu and now i can barely even swallow water it hurts so bad it just came up one day and i have pian right above my stomache
Stay blessed
My brother in law was diagnosed 18 months ago with stage 3 esophagus cancer(9cm tumour) Unfortunately after months of chemotherapy and even radiation therapy, he sadly passed away recently. A very aggressive and deadly cancer. He did have symptoms prior to being diagnosed of difficulty in swallowing food etc, but like many, brushed it off as indigestion issues. the take home message here is, if you are feeling any of those symptoms, don`t hesitate to go see your Dr, it may just save your life.
So very sorry to read that Paul. It really is a most insidious disease that not many people know about until it's too late.
does your brother in law undergoes surgery?
@@sofiastefanie6352 its possible for someone young to have it. Go checkup with ur doctor Better safe than sorry
My brother did the same, he thought this was indigestion issues, by the time we got him convinced to see a doctor it was too late, he was stage 4, he died 3 months later.
I know all too what this cancer can do. My brother passed away two years ago. Living in a remote place in Indian he just did not put a lot of stuff energy finding out what was wrong. Just indigestion!!
He passed away in not a lot of pain. Additionally God saw to it after his suffering for more than a year. His last few months he could eat, drink like he was ok. The doctors could not explain. I guess the Best doctor in the world has the last word !! Thank you lord for taking him home in that manner!!
I have had acid reflux when I was young and have a lot of scarring and have been scoped two or three times and told not to worry about it. I have choked several times and had my throat stretched out procedure that did not help at all.
All they say is that I have a large neck and muscle in there. I am not satisfied with this diagnosis.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.
When i swallowing food i feel pain in may back.. 2 of 10 is the range of pain
My GP called me today to go and see him and checked me out and sent me urgently to the ENT department and gave me a leaflet about possible susected cancer . the leaflet says that the urgency is to rule out cancer and if it is cancer ,it is best to treat it earlier. my symptoms are exactly what this video shows, terrible time eating solid and after eating I cough no stop to clear my throat and the cough is just dry. I can drink water with no issue, but I do feel a lump and sometimes I have pain. it all started after catching covid 8 months ago but it was just a very minor issue ,now it s very serious.
How are you now, wish you all the best
Hope you're doing fine now
How are you doing?
Hello, Dr, My Name Is Susan Boyd,Ive Been Fighting With Some Pains But Its In My Lungs & Back ? It Feels Like A Knife In My Back & Are Lungs When I Have An Attcak ? Thats What I Called Them Attacks ! Because It Hits Me In The Early Hrs &.Just Comes Out Of No Where ! & Am Throwing Up Nothing But Stinking Bile ? & No Foods ? Thanks ! If You Have Any Feed Back For Me Thanks ! Much Susan Boyd ,Ca.
Hi you may need you esopagus tube that enters in to the stomach tighten and if you have a gall badder it may need removal. I had those symptons years ago. You need to see a Doctor because I went to long and the vomiting and bile burned my esophagus so that it developed pre cancer of the esophagus.
If you smoke and/or drink heavily, stop now. My sister died of this in 2021 (age 68). Heavy drinker and smoker.
I have been suffering for years since 1979! I am now 69, and occasionally have to have my esophagus stretched. Presently, I'm having problems with heartburn even though I'm currently on prescription medication. I feel that all those years of having my esophagus stretched, my sphincter is just too "opened." My doctor is hesitant to perform corrective surgery because I may be back to square one with having my food get stuck! Try not to worry. At least you're proactive and seeing a specialist. Good luck and God bless.
I have to get my stretched next week. What do I expect. It is my first time.
Is that Achalasia?
Thank you for the info
You welcome.
What causes a chronic pain in the throat and ears?
Tonsillitis
Doctor, es una ulcera en la mucosa gastrica heterotopica un signo de alarma?
I’ve been having pain/tightness in my chest, tight throat, random pains in esophagus (esp where esophagus meets stomach), constantly having contents from stomach come up. Can’t hardly eat anything without having food contents coming up so I’m on a pretty bland diet. I’m on dexilant, sucralfate, and zegerid and none of these are curing me. Was on Prilosec and protonix but they didn’t work either. I’ve dealt with reflux for a few years. I’m terrified this could be cancer since no ppi’s or otc’s are working (they’ve helped but haven’t cured). I’m miserable. I’m only 26 and I’m scared this could be esophageal cancer. My appointment for an endoscopy is in 2 weeks so we’ll see what he says. Hoping for the best...
Medication for gerd is not supposed to cure you? Only reduce symptoms. Has it not reduced your symptoms at all?
Have a xray.
I'm having mine in about 5 hours. I'm terrified!
Good luck, and God bless. Have it checked every 3 years. Barrett's is very treatable if caught in time. Good success rate with Radio ablation.
@@ZekeThePlumber86 hi how did you get on with endoscopy