Achalasia. My daughter of 19 has been having problems swallowing for about a year, and over the period saw 3 different generalists and one specialist before receiving a correct diagnosis of the condition of achalasia. She has a fairly pronounced restriction of the lower oesophageal muscles and an enlarged upper oesophagus (a stage 2 achalasia), and for around 3 months has been more or less only able to swallow liquid foods, although sometimes solids pass OK. I think we have lost time because of the inability of generalist doctors to recognize the disease. She has been booked in to have a peroral endoscopic myotomy in a few weeks in a large French university hostpital (we live in France), that being apparently now the surgery of choice. It would be great to hear from anyone who has experience of this (what is described as) rare disease. Thanks.