Ineffective esophagus motility

Hi, I have been suffering that past few months from really bad Gerd symptoms along with raspitoary problem - heartburn, lump in throat, heartburn, burping, sore mouth and throat, chest pain and difficulty breathing that was light at the beginning but right now is off the roof which bothers me so bad. i have been doing all possible test and everything came back normal - normal endoscopy, no acid exposure, healthy LES(thanks god), but weak body of the esophagus which i have been told means nothing. i just saw that on the manomatary paper it indicates that i have ineffective motility with 40% failed and 60% weak. i have been taking tricyclic the past month with the hope that it will help so i am going to give it another 4 weeks to fully work. other than that, how everyone cope with this disorder? i have been told that it means nothing but after googling it i saw that it is and its not only a functional problem. does anyone know if there is any treatment for that since nothing worked for me so far. diet change, antidepressant(hope will work better soon), licorice, aloevera, etc. thanks

Post Edited (Adirrr) : 5/3/2021 1:38:51 AM (GMT-6)

Hi Sharon, thanks for the reply. I did. I did an asthma test, allergy, 2 endoscopy, ph-impandence, and manomatry. All came back normal except of the manomatry that indicates ineffective esophagus motility. I’ve been looking up and I saw that since it’s not in the criteria of other esophagus disorder I have as GERD, spasm, alchasaia, it doesn’t have any treatment because doctors don’t know how to treat it. Furthermore, I saw an article that says that there’s connection in ineffective esophagus motility patients and the vagues nerve which I think explains my difficulty breathing. I just wanted to see how’s everybody cope and if someone he found out anything to do?

Thanks again!

I don’t really have trouble swallowing. I don’t fell like the food getting stuck while eating but I feel a constant huge lump in the throat and also constant feeling of something/food stuck at the bottom of the throat/upper chest the last few days. It’s so weird that there’s nothing to do about it

I’ve had it for 8 months now even before I even knew what I have because I thought it was h pylori nothing more. I am taking Zoloft for my anxiety the past 6 months so I pretty sure it’s not due to anxiety. I just bumped into an article with an updated version of the Chicago Classification 4.0 which indicates that ineffective esophagus motility has no specific treatment other than lifestyle change. Hopefully some day will be any treatment for that. Thanks for the help