I’ll probably at some stage need another test but until then I’m quite happy to put up with it. I would, would prefer not to but in another sense I think if is happy to add the thickener, it’s better to accept it because actually it doesn’t put any more pressure on and they said they’d try and do some more tests sometimes and I had a couple of tests early on with a barium meal and they took x-rays of my throat to see what I was swallowing and they decided that it didn’t change. HusbandWell, you, it’s like so much, you learn to get used to it. How do you find having to have the thickened drinks? If liquid trickles down from my mouth into my lungs, they can’t do anything about it, so they, they insist that all my drinks are thickened because then my mouth knows to shut the valve to the lungs and, and it means basically I can’t drink fizzy drinks because thickener doesn’t work in them. HusbandNow I think the problem basically is that if a drink hasn’t, isn’t thickened I tend to cough a lot. WifeWell, to start with, you had to have your food mashed up. HusbandEating tends not to be a problem but swallowing drink is difficult. And swallowings affected, so we had to, he has to have everything thickened now. WifeBut his speech was affected because of the ataxia, it’s the muscles round the mouth not being able to move properly that’s the cause. And I was having no bother at all with it, you know. It started of it was quite watery, quite, like soups and things like that and then they started putting the Thick and Easy in and that thickens things up for you so you can maybe, like a mashed potato or, you know, a wee bit of something more solid and just built me up bit by bit until I was up at, number D where I could take soft mashable, what they class as soft mashable, foods. Must have been because I’m here sitting talking today, you know what I mean. Couldn’t talk, they were really excellent. So that’s the first think I can remember of it, but it was really, they were really good girls because I say I couldn’t, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t drink, couldn’t do anything. Because it helps for it to go down easier and it did. They’d get a wee bit of water and try to get you to drink it but told you to pull your chin in when you were doing it, you know like that. More information on stroke Expand dropdown Stroke profiles: Healthcare professionals.Stroke: People’s profiles Expand dropdown Sex life and impact on relationships after a stroke.Support from patients and support groups.Continuing care at home and institutional care after a stroke.When stroke is coupled with other health problems.Life after stroke: what is the long term like? Expand dropdown Stroke recovery: communication disorders.Stroke recovery: physical aspects and mobility.Stroke recovery: daily activities and personal care.What happens now? Rehabilitation and care Expand dropdown Preventing another stroke: changes in lifestyle. Why me? Why now? Reducing the risk of another stroke Expand dropdown Thinking, understanding, memory and fatigue after a stroke.Speech and communication after a stroke.Continence problems after a stroke and cathererisation.What problems did I have, and why? Expand dropdown The event: a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA).What happened? The first few days after a stroke Expand dropdown A doctor speaks: an introduction to stroke.A doctor speaks about stroke Expand dropdown
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