“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”—Sharon Begley.

Upper, upper symptoms

With the olanzapine, I cannot have lower gut symptoms and if you remember it was these two symptoms, spray painting and the cheesegrater, that forced me to limit myself to two meals a day. Ironically, after these symptoms went into temporary, spontaneous remission on their own in January 15, 2007 and that lasted until the third week of January 2010, I didn’t really attempt to alter my dietary practice. 
However, after the olanzapine I tried a number of times to eat breakfast. Initially, there were no symptoms during the eating, but about 90 minutes or so after, I started feeling strange sensations in my throat. I could literally feel strange contractions of my esophagus. They would last for about an hour and then dissipate. It was pretty easy to reproduce.

I never really named these symptoms; I just called them upper, upper gut symptoms.

At some point, however, they appeared to just go away on their own. It would have been interesting to have an esophageal manometry during one of episodes. It is likely that something never before seen would have been recorded. 

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