Esophageal Problems Worsening, Could It Be A Tumor?

1 1/2 yrs ago I developed barrett's esophagitis. last summer I started using digestive enzymes and after several mths, the barrett's disappeared. The digestive enzymes puts acid in your stomach so I figured maybe instead of having too much acid, maybe I didn't have enough, especially with the issue of carbohydrate malabsorption I suffer from.

So I quit taking my acid medications though I got a fair warning that I may end up with esophageal cancer if I didn't take them.

At this point, I must admit, I'm getting a bit worried.

For several months I've been having a little difficulty swallowing as food felt like it was getting stuck in my neck, just occassionally though. Then I started getting chest pain about a month ago. Didn't really know what was causing it. Indigestion getting worse while laying down. What worries me is it's progessively worsening. Any food I eat or medications I take are getting stuck in the middle of my chest. I have been constantly feeling this over the past few days, with very little relief. I've also been having tightness, pain, & tingling sensations in my chest, was off and on, but it's lasting all day and night now, radiates up into my shoulders, neck, jaw, & back, upper middle abdominal pain (sometimes severe), vomit coming up esophagus but not far enough to spit out, there's also tenderness right in the middle of my chest where the food is getting stuck. 

The reasons I'm worried is because all of these years I've had gerd and esophagitis, I never had trouble swallowing food, just the typical pain from the inflammation. I also wonder if a tumor could be compressing a nerve causing the tingling sensations. If it was just spasm related, I don't think that would happen. And now the chest pain & food getting stuck is constantly there, I don't know what to think.

I've been using antacids for weeks and it hasn't helped, so I started back on Aciphex, it isn't helping either, but I've only taken it for 2 days.

I've also been staying in bed probley 70% of the time now (over the past couple of months). For the past week, been having to go to bed by 5 or 6 pm, when I used to go around 11 pm. I have chronic fatigue anyways, but this is ridiculous. I have never felt this bad before.

Should I be worried?

I agree with Worried Sick-go to the doctor ASAP! My dad wishes he had paid more attention to food occasionally sticking. He was diagnosed 12/2007. This is not something to wait around on.

Please keep us updated! 

If my doctor was not ordering scope ASAP I would go to ER. We begged for the referral to find out why food wouldn't go down, and when I told Blue Cross that PCP refused to give referral for months, they said I should have called them with my concerns. Please take care of this today.

Digestive enzymes are just that. We need enzymes to breakdown food, so they speed up the breakdown process. I don't think they have a lot to do with acid production. There are just different enzymes able to break down different proteins and things in our food, so one protein would have a specific enzyme while another one would have a different specific enzyme.

There's something in it called Betaine Hydrocholoride that puts acid in your stomach. That's really all I know and the fact of how my test results changed. My inflammation even cleared up in my stomach.

The only relief I am getting is when I first wake up in the morning, but after I eat, it hurts until I go to sleep. But it hasn't stop me from eating and I'm not throwing all of it back up, so it must be digesting at some point. Still not getting any better taking Aciphex.

Hopefully it's something not so serious like spasms. Not sure though if that would cause a constant feeling of something being stuck in my esophagus.

I'll call & get an appt today.