troath 'cheese', depression,

[nicky1964]

I suffer from years of depression, and take prozac.
I have little bits of 'cheese' coming up out of my troath, smelly, for years too. different doctors don't know what it is.

My husband says he can 'smell' when i'm depressed.

I have recently been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, but after taking one tablet a day of Thyroxine, my bloodlevels are ok.

Despite the normal bloodlevels, I have now also been diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, for which numbness i wear armplints at night.

I have a constant pulse of 45-55, and low bloodpressure.

I lack energy and get depressed when I overdo it= go for a 20 min. walk). This energy-lethargy is increasing.

I can think of things i want to do, but can't afford to blow myself into a depression-mood, which makes me cry endlessly without reason.

nicky

[nicky1964]

hi...

thanks you guys..

depression is a bit of a curse, i hoped anyone could come up with a magic key or something, spec. cause i feel it's such a physical thing. thanks for the understanding and support..

so that's what the cheese is, i'll try gurgling and stuff.
hope someone else has more ideas about maybe the hypothyroidism?? i feel maybe i'm not getting enough medication though my levels are 'normal'?? is there anything that can cause my thyroid to act the way it does or ..

nicky

[charley1986]

Hey, first of all, you are not alone.  I also have the "throat cheese" as you call it and so does my sister.  I take several medications and my sister takes none so I don't think that meds have anything to do with it.  My sister calls hers "oatmeal balls" LOL!  I have no idea what causes them.  As far as the depression goes, I know exactly where you are coming from.  I have what some might call drug resistant depression - I have been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder and this requires alot of attention on my part and my psych doctor.  I can always feel when I am sliding back down into that little hole.  They up my meds and I am stable again for another 4 months or so and so on and so forth.  I have been doing this for a while now so I really feel as though I have a handle on it.  What I'm saying is that I know you can sit and think of things to make yourself depressed.  I have "triggers" from trauma I suffered as an adolesant. I can hear a certain word or name of the town I lived in or even a song and it will trigger me - I have to fight with all my will to pull my mind back to the present and let it go.  Its hard.  I know how you feel with the lethargy....it is some of the worst stuff about depression because what really helps you is to exercise and get out of the house.  And when you are depressed that is the LAST thing you want to do.  Please take solace in knowing that you are not alone....take care and if you find out what those "oatmeal balls" are - let me know!

[rthomas003]

weird that doctors dont know what it is, you must have some dumb doctors, i like your term "throat cheese" even thought the mental picture i got from that was discusting beyond all discustingness, thanks for that (-:  um im finding i have a lot to say in this board, makes me feel good when i can offer my opinion based on my own experiances and apparently ive had lots of experiances cause i know what "throat cheese "is...well pretty much anyway,
firstly its gross, but i get that to from time to time, if you squish it between your fingers its sorta pasty? smells like ...i dunno pooo or something like that.does that sound like what your talking about? and oddly shaped sorta like those little candy nerds sometimes? if so were talking about the same thing.
so ill get to my point,i think its gook from your throat, like spit and milk and just trace amounts of whatever youve swallowed over god knows how long and if your prone to a dry mouth from medication or just from being stressed or depressed youll get alot more ,my theory on it is, that that thick spit sorta acts like glue for little particles of things and it all becomes trapped in little crevaces in your throat,like around the bottom of tonsils where theve been infected and healed but not been removed for instance, i think thats where mine come from, it breaks loose sometimes, for me its like a little episode of them once they start they keep coming here and again for a while then ill go for a while without any, i smoke and ive always blamed it on that , most everyone i know have "throat cheese" from time to time,and my mom who suffers from depresion and anxiety has smelly breath sometimes and its much worse when shes very down or stressed out.
id try regular mouthwash gargeling and "gurking" sessions daily untill you clear um out of there (dont even ask what "gurking" is i dont know how to describe it,its a term i coined just now as i was trying to think of how to tell you how to get um out, so i guess just try to imagine "gurking" and thats probably bout right)that should eliminate them for the most part i havnt had any "throat cheese" in probably a year and my breath is minty fresh all the time haha.
anyway in my opinion thats what it is and you wont be dieing of it anytime soon.
good luck on the depression i really hope that you can find a way to feel better, your message made me sad.
life for me is about love and inolving myself in lots of projects i enjoy, if i didnt have all my little projects and i had not discovered that loving is the quickest route to feeling loved i would be bored of this whole living thing cause it can be really hard to find the "point" in what we do and deal with everyday otherwise and life becomes completely redundant, id probably be depressed too. if you want me to elaborate on that email me, i have plenty to say about what makes life worth living and how to find what makes you happy and i would love to tell you about it for whatever its worth.
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