Posted by Jason on January 20, 19103 at 01:24:05:
In Reply to: Lump in throat posted by Haley on August 06, 19100 at 07:44:33:
I just wanted to reiterate how much the great deal of stress that I was suffering in november and december really really led to this lump in the throat feeling. Please everyone, try to relax and put it out of your mind.
Here are the symptoms that I had, which all seemed to generally start to fade as I started to relax in life:
Tightness in the throat, as if a potato chip was always stuck inside. It made me always feel as though I could cough it up, however, I never could. Never really noticed it while eating, but was extremely apparent while swallowing saliva. Muscles felt strained when blowing air out of my mouth in a manner such as you would do if you were trying to blow out candles on a birthday cake. Only felt irritation on the left side of my throat, and usually only on the inside. The docs couldn't find anything wrong wtih my throat even after using a dental mirror and pulling my tongue out to look deep inside. Sometimes I felt a clicking sensation near my adams apple while swallowing my saliva. Sometimes it felt better to swallow saliva when I turned my head to the right while swallowing.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt it. The more I felt it, the more I did "test swallows" to see if it was getting tighter or not. The more I did that, the more I thought about it, and the vicious cycle went on and on. I seriously started thinking about cancer, and death and became depressed, very badly. I was so sure that I had a cancerous tumor, despite the fact that if you do have one, you almost never feel it. I believe that my sore throat was mostly from the fact that a virus was going around, but also due my very poor eating habits, and the fact that I had no problem drinking several tall glasses of sodas or beers a day. That stuff just eats away at your throat, not to mention I totally ignored all of the heartburn I had been feeling for the past year or more. That adds up, and I am now finally buying into the fact that I have throat ulcer(s) inside from all these very poor habits. That and the fact that until the past few weeks, my work out habits had really dropped as I went from a slender 175 to 225 in less than 2 years. Being overweight I am sure didn't help out matters at all. Since the start of the year I have been working out every 2 days consistently for once and am dropping the weight and am down to 216 now and dropping.
This was a real wake up call for me personally. Not only to get in shape, but to learn to relax and enjoy all the good things in my life that I was missing. I have become a much more positive person and my outlook has improved so much due to all this. My panic attacks have seemed to basically go away now, god help me, and as they went, so did my lump in the throat sensation. Stress does many many things, you just have to control it and believe this!
Jason
My email if anyone wants to talk is Maccaveili@hotmail.com