Difficulty clearing sinus/swallowing

[miles2go]

One two occasions, once several years ago, and again several days ago I had difficulty clearing my sinus and marginal difficulty swallowing.

Clearing my sinus seems to involve first sniffing to expel phlegm from the sinus, then swallowing with the throat constricted to force phlegm into the mouth, then relaxing the throat to swallow it.

On these two occasions swallowing with my throat constricted seemed to bring a bulge of tissue like some form of hernia from the back of my palate into my mouth.    I did not feel any pain associated with this, however, I did not want to try pushing it.

Overnight this seemed to resolve itself on both occasions.

Can anybody tell me what this and what, if anything, I should do about it?

Thanks.

[Enoch Choi, MD]

sounds like you could possibly be feeling the discomfort of post-nasal drip, blocking the eustachian tubes, disturbing your hearing, pain with swallowing

pretty common. see your doctor.  nasal steroids can help

[isabel34]

by isabel04

I have a hearing problem.hearing the blood stream inside my ears too loud.if i`m suffering migraine that is only the time i heard this sound but now it is already maintain in my hearing problems.and also at the back of tounge and throat i have this big difficulties in swallowing.the time i swallow it seems like there`s a foreign object inside.and the temporal muscles are stiff and have pain in chewing.and why do there are too much ephitilial cells the taste is so salty coming to my mouth which it came from back of my tounge.then my tounge become very white .Can anybody tell me what this and what, if anything, I should do about it? Thanks.

[Enoch Choi, MD]

the feeling of a bulge of tissue could be an irritation from post-nasal drip

it sounds normal.

ask your doctor.