enough to fight this sickness n think positive all the time... i was so worried about my sickness because it uncommon sickness n very hard to find..i will try to google other website about achalasia...so far this forum has all the informations i guess..i was so worried about my sickness until now i cant sleep properly at night thinking about it 24/7 ...i feel so relieve that u reply my post.thank u,may god bless u.have a nice day. So glad I was able to at least reassure you. My friend has every intention of living to 100 I can assure you, so he still has a lot of living to do. I hope you manage to go back to the doc and have a chat about it all soon and hopefully be in touch with people in the same position as you. When I can't sleep I slowly count back from 300...in my head not out loud. The brain gets fed up doing this and often you fall asleep. Or try and imagine a scene like walking along a beach (my favourite) walking through a wood or even swimming in a lake, it is possible with practice to do this and after a while your brain recognises that this is a switch to help you to sleep. It really works but does take practice. Take it from someone who's been around a long time, everything passes. If you feel yourself getting het up try slow breathing. This automatically slows your