Swallowing pain for few months now.

[gf72]

I have had a swallowing pain for the last few months and there is also a small lump on the front of my neck just under the skin.  the lump has been there for several months and the ENT i saw said it was probably just a lymph node.  I had a CT scan done with contrast and it didn't show anything.  I don't have any difficulty swallowing and actually don't have any pain when swallowing food its usually when i swallow with a dry mouth or just swallowing saliva.  its a sharp pain on the right side of my throat that i feel.  My ENT said to just give it some time and I have but is has not got any better.  Somedays it hurts a little even without swallowing other days i barely notice it.  I will gladly give anymore needed info.  the pain doesn't actually appear to be in my throat because like i said it doesn't hurt to swallow any type of food.  Should i see another ENT?  There are so many to choose from I'm not sure what criteria I should look for or just pick one at random

Thanks

[Rumblebee3131]

I have pain on left side off and on.   Bad tonight so I'am drinking some hot tea.  I have had this for about 5 months and noticed it when I had the flu / possible viral infection.  Many, many doctor visits with antibiotics and still happens.  Have gone to Chiropractor for the past 3 weeks and she said I seem to be pinching a nerve,  then she adjust me.  Now I also get something that I have not seen mentioned here.  I get dizzy or feel like I'am in a bubble or unfocused.  Like others dry swallow in bad with even clicking noise at times when my mouth is dry.  Water and food feels better but I would love to get this resolved.  Thanks.

[drajay308]

I also have same problem but on left side.I think i had similar episodes in past.i have slight cough too.I took amoxycillin for a week but no improvement.I am planning to visit ENT doctor next week.

[Stigmatisert]

(Unexplained Swallowing-/throat pain without fever)

Clean your nose with salt/water-sollution. (As if you had a cold).Pour it in and try GENTLY to press a bit water into the openings of your eustachian tubes. (Valsalvas manoevre). BE GENTLE otherwise you ruin your ears.

After you may hear sticky-noise while swallowing. It's annoying, but nothing compared to the swallowing pain.

Please, do tips me if it works for you as well.

[spgrhy]

i have been experiencing the same problem for about 4 to 5 month. I need solution, from this forum. Because i dont believe in doctors now a days.

[Stigmatisert]

I've found the direct cause for my pain related to swallow saliva while mouth full of food or drink give pain relieve or produce no pain. (I posted here in March. In June I found the mechanism).

After all kinds of excaminations of my throat showing "no asymmetri - no pathologie" I concluded: - The only painfull thing invisible on "pictures" is air or air-pressure. (Yes, it sounds ridicolous, but I've found my "cure").

The logic/mechanism:
While swallowing it's air in the mouth. (The less "mass" the more air, which explains why swallowing mouthfuls of drink/food shortly gives relieve). Not all the air should go down while swallowing. Some of it shall elevate to the channels from the naso-swallow to the ears (the eustachian tubes).

Why it hurts:
If air doesn't elevate to the eustachian tubes and ears, it's pressed down while swallowing. The swallow misunderstand the large amount of air for being food or drink and starts fighting pressing it towards the stomach. Strugling muscles are wery-wery painful and the throat is one of the most sensitive parts of the body.

The sollution:
Try to make the eustachian tubes open. I succeded in using a neti-pot and Vasalvas manouver.

(DO NOT FORCEFULLY PRESS WATER INTO YOUR TUBES. It may cause you a lot of problems: barotrauma, ringing and aching head)

End-frase...
I can't understand why my eustachian tubes stopped opening while swallowing. I can't understand why I haven't had any ear-problems while this has been a problem. Why me...?

Before this struck me, I remember doing some snorkling and having swine-flue one and a half years earlier. I took flue-vaccine half-a-year before. I was on holiday bathing, sauna with ice-bathing two months before. (No one else on the trip got any problems).

X-ray of my neck show problems, but not on C4 where the nerve-strings to the eustachian tube are close. I was over-loaded by work and private matters at the time, and one GP means that may have caused the eustachian tube dysfunction, but he can't explain why they stopped elevate air.

Because I worked so much, my diet was not good. I was so exhausted from work I had to eat chockolate to keep it going sometimes. I had just changed work and moved 120 kilometer from coast to in-land country. The road to work is over a hill, and everytime passing there, my ears had to pop. (But I don't know anyone else driving that road having problems as mine).

So, please, if you're experiencing the same problems as I and get relieve by the eustachian tubes again opening while swallowing, write if you've had any similar experiences to mine or any other special things happening, that may explain why we got into this "condition" in the first place.

[chr030]

dude if its a viral infection amoxicillan will do nothing....and red meat? is this a joke?