I think your on the right track going to an ENT for further medical testing. I have been having a problem with my throat closing as well...called asphyxiation. Usually this is brought on by something your allergic to. It will also cause your heart rate to go up or down, and it feels like squeezing around your neck, sometimes pressure around your sinues or back of ears.
In my situation, I am still being tested...after 3 yrs of ending up in the emrgency room, doctors have me carrying an epi-pen. I was tested a basic test and found out I am allergic to timothy and june grasses. Which gets real severe during burn time season. I kept thinking it was something I was inhaling not eating. My saliva also has been thicker...not colored, just not watery, and this will happen up to a couple of days earlier or right away. I was also being treated for asthma. I do not smoke, and consider myself fairly health concious. In the last 2 years I put on 40 lbs. A lot of this from lack of excersise, but it has been dificult for me to breathe, especially when throat closes. The docs gave me zantac, and recently tested me to find that I have a mild form of obstructive air way disease. I feel myself deterierating away, and do not know why either. I am planning to relocate to the high desert though..currently in the midwest. Also I am scheduled to see an ENT and and allergist to have specific testing done. Please continue to see your doctor, because if it is an allergic reaction, whether your inhaling, touching it, or eating it, there are medicine and tests to help you save your life. Good luck !
Gee I have this backwards, I was thinking like croup, because Adults dont get croup, so VCD isnt apart of that department.
WOW
Now I can add that to my appointment when I see my Asthma doctor.
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Hi nbaby
Let me share with you, because I to get that problem, there is no cure for it, this thing I am about to tell you about. Everything you are describing, is exactly what I to have had, they call this Laryngo spasm (throat closes).
Why it happens is because without notice, you've heard the word anxiety.
Anxiety doesnt have to happen like a panic attack where you are noticing it, well Laryngo doesnt.
Being an EMT-B, I just happened to have talked to a Paramedic, who told me that his patient thought he was having the same classical symptoms and he said the patient is just a hypochondriac and I told him no, it is a true condition that affects us all.
And seeing what this doctor says, perhaps vocal cord paralysis isnt what I believe it to be, I'm not a doctor, but in the medical field and what to attribute it to, from what it is, anxiety and spasm are the same thing.
This could be vocal cord dysfunction (VCD), following a bad viral respiratory infection. Infection can initiate VCD. The VCD would not be apparent on routine pulmonary function tests (PFTs), unless an inspiratory flow-volume loop was performed. Even then, the loop might be normal if done at a time when you were not as symptomatic.
You should have direct examination of your vocal cords, by the ENT using a fiberoptic laryngoscope, both to establish the diagnosis of VCD and to rule-out the other possible diagnosis, vocal cord paralysis.