severe sore throat on one side

[hazey08]

Please can you help? ive had a stiff neck since having an operation 6 months ago physio isnt helping much and now for the past 8 weeks ive had a severe pain in my throat on the left side around my lynph nodes but the pain moves from up to behind my left ear to sometimes being under my chin! my gp cant find any lumps and an endoscopy didnt show up anything? pain killers are doing nothing and the pain is constant! i cant take much more! sometimes its a little  painfull to swallow but i can eat ok. and drinking is fine. im scared to death it maybe throat cancer! im waiting to see a throat specialist, i have an overactive thyroid but my levels have been ok for ages now i only have to take 5mg of carbimazole, and i have no other symptoms at all just a terrible pain that is relentless! please can yu advise me?  thank you Hazel

[hazey08]

thanks for your reply and kind words the pain is constant and so annoying today was a bad day it hurt on both sides of my throat at the front just under my thyroid gland but now it has moved and back on the left side its getting me down now and having a two year old is hard because i dont feel like being nice tut! i really do hope it is a mouse not arat (i loved your saying there) hopefully the gp will get my refferal done soon you take care and thank you again xxxxx haze xxxxx

[SuziB]

Poor you, it is very frightening when you have unexplained symptoms. The difficulty deep breathing could, as you say, be anxiety, which is a symptom of being hyperthyroid also. When were your levels last checked? Can't do any harm to have an update blood test.
I know you will be worried about cancer because that is what pops to the top of everyone's head before they get a diagnosis but when that has happened to me I try to remember the words of a pest contoller when I phoned him in a panic because I thought there was a huge rat in the roof because I had heard it clattering around up there. He said 'if you think it's a rat, it's probably a mouse. If you think it's a mouse, it's probably a gecko, if you think it's a gecko, odds on it's cockroaches.' He was trying to say that fear makes us think everything is much worse than it is. (it was a mouse in the roof by the way!)  You've had an endoscopy which was clear and the doctor can't feel any lumps on the outside so that should give you a little comfort at the moment. Is it a kind of shooting pain like when you eat sherbet or a more spread out pain? If it's the 'sherbet pain', I really see why you say you can't take much more. Have you had a look at your salivary glands under your tongue? Neither of them swollen? (I know, I'm clutching at straws here but I had a swollen salivary gland for 4 days once that nearly drove me crazy with the pains up under my chin and out to my ear)
I don't have answers for you, but I understand how desperate you must be feeling just now. Good luck-I'm sure it will turn out to be a mouse rather than a rat!

[hazey08]

I have had my overactiver thyroid for 18 months now but my levels have been fine for ages now im just sooooo scared its throat cancer i cannot sleep! thankyou for your replies they have made me feel better because no one mentioned cancer! im still waiting to hear off the throat specialist with an apointment date it cannoe come soon enough! my symptoms are not any easier in fact are worse if anthing sometimes i find it hard to take in a deep breath but maybe that could be anxiety due to the worry of my throat problems? i dont know xxxxx

[SuziB]

I'm thinking it is related to your thyroid gland. The symptoms are very like sub acute thyroiditis/de Quervains. Did you find out why you are hyperthyroid and how long ago was that diagnosed? A trip back to the endocrinologist is in order.

[mimi1313]

I looked into this as best as I could and it could be anything from a throat infection to mono to your thyroid. I know you said its been okay but your body changes and maybe you should get it checked. I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful, Maybe someone else can.

Good luck,
Melissa