Throat Chocking Feeling Can Someone Help?

[Eva1990]

Hi my name is Eva, got a question,

For about 3 months now i am suffering from a stiff neck and throat i am having trouble swallowing and sometimes even breathing properly it gets worse from the afternoon and when the sun sets and its time for bed it is at its worst time, when i go to bed and get up in the morning it is much better, it almost feels as if someone is strangling my neck al the time and as if there is a swollen big rock there and feels like i am always chocking on it. i first got diagnosed with ' panic attack's and anxiety, so i relaxed myself for a while, helped because the less stressed i am it feels better, but there was that 'ball' feeling stuck in my throat/thyroid ALL the time, i went to a few doctors' and they said it is just anxiety etc, one Dr told me i had a swollen throat so i took antibiotics for that after trying herbs and remedies for a month but that did not help and it took to long and to painful!! the swelling went away after a week, then the Dr said i have swollen tonsil, after a week of more medicine that went away, after that he told me i had bad allergies!! so i took allegra at night and he gave me inhalers for astma !! i was getting freaked out from all this medicine and it was just making me sick!! after all this time and all this money being spent on al this herbs remedies and medicines, i STILL am stuck with this throat pain.... i read all about it on the net and got a sense of what it can be but it really bugs me and it is painful if i am not happy and positive about it sometimes it can get really bad and painful and hard to breathe properly,

Does anyone know about this issue that can help with this from what i said here ???

Thank You !!!

[jackiejr]

The suggestions others in here are making sound very good. I really wish you a speedy healing and G-d bless,
Jackie

[Barb135]

The feeling could be from a swollen thyroid, acid reflux or anxiety (or a combination of them all).  I had it quite badly at one time.  It started out being from swollen thyroid, which caused anxiety, which in turn, made the choking feeling worse.  It becomes a vicious circle.

You do need to get an ultrasound or CT; most doctors would order ultrasound.

You also need to get some basic thyroid tests done.  The tests to ask for are TSH, Free T3 and Free T4, to begin with.  If you've had any of these, please post the results, along with reference ranges, which vary lab to lab and have to come from your own report.  

[Shiny76]

What they said!   One of my first clues back when I was hypo was the ball in the throat feeling - went to the ER with it one time and got told it had to be from acid reflux.   Later they called it globus hystericus - anxiety side effect.   They were all....wrong.

[Gibbon1]

It'd say ask for a ct scan of the neck.  When I presented with pain and a lump, they zipped me off for a CT scan.

For thyroid and thyroid nodules ultrasound is standard. But the advantage of a CT scan is, if they don't know what's up, a CT scan will show everything in the neck, not just the thyroid.

PS: I bad with doctors, but one thing to stress is along the lines of, this has been bothering me for a while, isn't going away, and I'm not going away either, so you have to actually investigate not just send me home and hope I don't come back, because I'll just be back next week if you do that.

[ChitChatNine]

Has anyone done an ultrasound at all ?  Sorry you are going through this.  I've read about this on the allergies (food) community, too .. wish you had an answer

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