Dysphagia (food sticking in esophagus )

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I believe I approached this question earlier, but I need to ask it

again. We need to eat slowly. Ok. We need to eat small pieces of

hard food (meat, etc.). Ok. But I seem to have a lot of problems

with swallowing anything other than VERYYYYYYY soft food. If I

swallow a very small piece of meat and wait about 5-10 minutes, I'm

ok, but if I attempt to eat any quicker, I suffer from Dysphagia

(i.e., food sticking in my esophagus).

I know that the stoma is small, but the food I'm eating hasn't even

gotten to the pouch (stomach) yet.

Questions:

1. Is this common among all of us?

2. Surely, this will not be a lifelong problem - will it?

3. Since the doctor did not touch the upper stomach - why has this

suddenly presented itself?

Thanks.

Bill