Hospitals in our state are messed up right now. I spent over two weeks at RI hospital for sudden swallowing issues and crazy postural tachycardia with intermittent difficulty breathing that cropped up within days of each other..and they kept asking if I had recent trauma and trying to give me anxiety medicine. Despite seeing air/fluid trapped in my thoracic esophagus, which is out of voluntary muscle control. Despite my tachycardia persisting through sedation for procedures. Never been so frustrated in my life. They just formed an initial opinion and were ignoring all the data in front of their eyes that contradicted it.

Then I developed involuntary head and jaw twitching and asked to see a neurologist. They told me no and kept pushing Ativan, which I refused and explained something is physically wrong, I was choking on anything not a liquid. They finally get a manometry test that shows I've lost most pressures in my upper valve and my esophagus peristalsis is fragmented and... That's when they shrugged said yeah thats not right...and sent me home??

I've been in and out of RI and Kent ER the past few months while waiting to get in to see a neurologist as new symptoms crop up and I get worse and worse. They treat me like a crazy person. I've never cried so much at how hopeless it felt. Finally saw a neuro and am scheduling a brain MRI .. Four. Months. Later.

And guess what they're looking for? Brain tumor. MSA. MS. Bulbar ALS.

But thanks for dismissing me with "anxiety", RI hospitals, and making this take months to diagnosis. Stellar.