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Canada Girl
02-10-05, 00:27
Ok, so I've got this funky throat thing happening for about 4 months now. I am not in "pain" but it is just discomfortable. Sometimes I feel like I have a lump by my adams apple (lower throat) - kind of like when you get all emotional and you are trying REALLY hard NOT to cry. So off I go to the Dr.'s and she says Globus Hystericus. We talk about it and I think - yup, I can see this, signs are there, stress etc. My question is now that I realize that I can control this (or at least I need to get my stress under control to get over this) how long should this take? I do feel better knowing that I don't have throat cancer and all the fun things I psyched myself up into believing I had. Dr. says reassurance from her is normally the key to the healing to begin. In otherwords....
"You are not deathly sick with a nasty disease so get over it!!) I just wonder if anyone else has had it and how long before you go sympton free?? I still have the odd spasm in my throat (it feels like a flutter) and I find if I have a really good cry I feel amazing afterwards. Just hoping someone else has experienced this too. Searching for some reassurance and hoping I'll get back to feeling 100% and not always having this in the back of my head.

mjh74
02-10-05, 03:41
Hi there Canada Girl,

I've had this for about 10 months and the only way I could explain it to my doctor is exactly how you've explained it. like I'm trying to stifle a really big cry. I had it about 7 years ago and it lasted for a month or so then, this time it was attached to a huge panic attack so I'm finding it hard to keep under control right now....

Hope this helps,

Mark

Meg
02-10-05, 09:59
MORE HORRID SYMPTOMS!!!! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1957)
Swallowing / throat problems / Being strangled! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4476)
What has suddenly changed, feel awful! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3518)
Really frightend of Swallowing, (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3576)
A strange one, anyone else experienced similar?? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3741)
throat !!! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3857)
Strange Lump in Throat (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3929)
Throat, improvements, questions (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4008)
Problems with eating and Swallowing, (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4175)
update on throat problems (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4270)
Swallowing fear (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4341)
Horrible Throat Feelings! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4396)
Finally admitted what the problem is! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4725)
Another scared one (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4770)
Strange symptom that comes with anxiety (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4771)
Swallowing / throat problems / Being strangled! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4476)
swallowing difficulties associated with panic? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5359)


Meg
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dizzydruid
04-10-05, 10:44
Hi,
I too had these problems with my throat and was convinced it was cancer. I made numerous trips to the doctor in tears and she eventually convinced me it wasnt cancer and it was all down to anxiety. I began to look at the feelings I was getting more closely without panicking over it and I realised that although i hadnt noticed it before that there was a slight pattern to it, in that it wasnt there 24 hours a day. There were a few times say half an hour in the day when I didnt have it. I began to accept that maybe it was anxiety and began to think about it less. I didnt distract myself from it because I find this makes me worry about it even harder but I found that I would go for a couple of hours not thinking about it and eventually this got longer and longer until it went but it took a good few weeks for it to go.
It still comes back everynow and then I sometimes have an initial panic over it but then I calm myself down and dont worry myself and a few days later its gone.
I read Claire Weekes book 'self help for your nerves' which helped so much.she tells you to face, accept, float and let time pass and this really does work
hope I have helped a little bit
lucy x

nomorepanic
04-10-05, 14:03
Canada Girl

I can completely understand how you feel about this. Here is my post ...
Swallowing / throat problems / Being strangled! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4476)

I have had it since July now and am still waiting for it to subside.

Nicola

"Nearly all happiness comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open"

lin
04-10-05, 15:52
Hi Canada Girl

My throat problem is i constantly swallow it's been like that since feb this year at first it was horrible there was no let up with it now it's not to bad but it can be annoying.

I kept asking my doctor will it go and yes came the answer but it is still here i suppose i just have to put up with it i try not to let it get me down.

linda xx

Canada Girl
25-10-05, 17:26
Ok - so I go off to the ENT a week ago and he examines my neck and throat and says no lumps, no bumps and then puts this nasty tube thingy up my nose and I swear halfway down by throat (gross eh) and said everything looks great!! My mouth is fine and my throat is fine too. Just to make me "feel better" I go off for a thyroid ultrasound and that too comes back fine. His exact words "You are healthier than you believe". So why do I still sometimes have my funky throat?? I've been told globus hystericus normally subsides upon hearing the "you are 100% fine" but so far I still don't feel 100% yet. Any comments?? Although the reassurance from the doctor was great I still think - maybe, just maybe something was missed??

boy
25-10-05, 19:00
Never had it myself sorry but I do find the doctor is the 'spark' required to get to mental recovery.

pips
27-10-05, 10:59
Hi There,

I suffer badly with this to it seems to be one of the biggest and annoying anxiety traits hey!

Please don't worry take comfort from the reasurance that you have been given.

Take Care,

Love PIP'S X X

mjh74
27-10-05, 12:52
Oh gawd me too! I have bouts of this quite often after having it almost constantly for about 6 months. It feels so very real and it's SO easy to let yourself concentrate on it and worry about it but at the end of the day it's just our doing and I've accepted that now. I find that the second I'm put on the spot or in a awkward situation I become very aware of my throat and feel it tighten almost instantly. I've accepted this as a symptom of anxiety now and it does die down eventually.

Mark x

Canada Girl
27-10-05, 23:44
Thanks for all the reassurance guys (and girls too LOL!!). It's nice to know you're not alone sometimes. I wouldn't wish this on anyone - it can really play with your head and emotional well being. I'll just go along one day at a time and perhaps one day I'll wake up and not think about it at all (unlike now where I wake up and think - hmm I feel good so far..... almost like I'm waiting for it to come on). Your support feels like some Vicks on my throat - nice and soothing...:)

clairejhm
30-10-05, 10:57
I am currently convinced that I have something nasty as my throat has felt bad -sore and as if there's a lump there - for weeks. The feeling extends up into my ears at times, like burning. It also makes me feel quite breathless - is this the same thing?

JosephF
01-10-06, 22:24
Uh yes, Hello to all i am new to the forum as my name and info says.
I was searching about Globus hystericus, basically because i was telling a friend that i have it and i came by this forum and this topic. So i thought i'd put a comment on here too.

I'm 17 years old and for 9 years i have had globus, mild at the beginning and getting steadily worse as time goes on, though it's stayed the same for about 3 yrs now. I know there is no drug related treatment, only reasurrance and sheer determination, its just, i don't know.

JosephF
02-10-06, 18:11
any feedback would be great :)

nomorepanic
02-10-06, 18:19
I have had mine since June 2005. Went to see an ENT specialist and he looked dwon throat and said it was fine and told me to ignore it.

Hmmmmm - I tried that lol. It is still there.

Nicola

JosephF
02-10-06, 18:23
sucks dont it lol

pinkpenny1uk
03-10-06, 12:51
hiya,
i suffered with this quiet badley too. the more i thought about it the worse it felt. i was told it was down to my anxiety. however things came to a head in feb. i had bad tonsillities, and began coughing up blood. as u can imagine i panicked big time convincing myself i had cancer.
i ended up in hospital on the ssu and was diagnoised with acid reflux.
since being on meds for this i must say i haven't felt the lump in my throat much.
i tend to only become aware of it now if i have a major panic or anxiety attack.
i also found out that this lump in your throat feeling is also a symptom of acid reflux, as well as anxiety.

wasn't i the lucky one to get a double dose?

all the best to u

pp x

Ballandalloch
03-10-06, 13:06
I am exactly the same as pinkpenny. Acid reflux can give the sensation of a lump in the throat but mine has even spread to making my tongue ache. Scary at times but I am living with it. If they say its not cancer then I have to believe that! Try and ignore it. It may go away or you may just get used to it. I know it doesnt seem likely at the moment but that is possible.

JosephF
03-10-06, 17:01
i do try to ignore, though now it is disrupting my A-level classes and my learning, so i may try new methods to combat it.

CamaroGuy
13-11-06, 19:52
Hi all. I have been reading through this trail and desipte all the probelms everyone is having, it makes me feel better that perhaps I am not alone. (if that makes sense). For bout the past 6 weeks, I have been having the same feeling that I have a lump in the side of my throat. Been to the Dr. several times, and to the ENT twice, and on the 2nd visit he did the scope through the nose and down the throat. All was clear from what he saw. On one of my blood tests, my Dr. noticed I was slightly hypothroid, so he put me on synthroid. (Think I had a few side effects from that but..) My lump and complaint that I could feel a lump, have a tightness of the throat, ie, it felt like I was being choked slightly led me back to the Dr. I suggested that he request an ultrasound of my thyroid. He di, and they found a nodule approx. 1cm. So from there I went to the Endocrinologist, where she felt my throat, said the thyroid did not feel swollen, and she could not feel the nodule. She said, that because of the size of the nodule, they would not normally do a FNA on it. (She also said, if it was cancerous, you would look sick).. hmmm ever think of early symptoms??? Any way, she new I was still concerned with her comments, so she has booked me a CT Scan in dec.

Sorry for the long post... but reading much of what you folks are writing, I (barring any other medical issues) I seem to perhaps fall into the same category.

My feeling seems to get worse off an on. Just recently noticed that it seems a little worse, (more swelling) after I eat.. to that not I just took some tums.. and it actually felt a little better...

I have been trying to make sure that I manage my stress better, (hmm but that really stresses me out).. Anyway, thanks for reading the bablings of this Canadian Guy.

Cheers and I look forward to reading your input.

damnnails
12-04-08, 13:52
Hi all,

Just got back from the doctors again today :(. Taking Omeprazole due to really nasty heartburn,been to a and e so many times with chest pains etc. They're convinced it's gastric obviously I think it's cancer!. Been diagnosed with Globus Hystericus today. Was strange reading your post.... I started off at the begining of the week with the sensation that I was making too much saliva???? then finding it increasingly difficult to swallow, worst night last night could hardly swallow my sleeping tablet!. Reading all your posts it all makes sense but I still get that same sneaky feeling that maybe somethings been missed... I guess that's the nature of the beast!. Off to the orthodontist on Tuesday as my dentist found "something" around an impacted wisdom tooth! he tells me it's NOT cancerous but has referred me anyway?? why?? because it is really cancer?? vicious circle........ now I'm thinking this "thing" around the tooth is what's making my throat feel like there's a lump in it!!... not having a good day.....

williamsemciw
12-04-08, 18:09
I'm having the exact same problems. Exact. Every doctor I've spoken to is convinced I'm suffering from reflux, but I still worry it's cancer.

I've gotten over it, in large part recently. Just not thinking about it at all. They are doctors, they woulden't miss this.

sheba2
12-04-08, 21:44
I had globus for the first three months of this year. It drove me mad and was really worrying and very unpleasant. Have been without it for about 3 weeks now but strangely yesterday I suddenly thought. 'Oh haven't had lump in the throat for a while' and guess what. Within a few minutes I could feel it coming back.

At least it convinces me it is mind related.

damnnails
13-04-08, 11:19
HI guys,

We had been invited out last night for a meal with friends, I went along but have to say firstly I was worried what I should be eating because of the reflux andthen secondly was convinced that something would get stuck in my throat and I'd choke! so a panic attack ensued!!!! I managed to stay until the end but didn't really eat much at all and was constantly apologising to our friends :(. Took my sleeping tablet when i got home but felt that got stuck! but eventually did sleep. My friend called this morning and said she was going to pop over, I almost put her off but actually I'm hoping seeing her will help to put things back into perspective.... silly huh x Thank you for your replies and I know we can all get through this :)

joyce99
03-08-08, 21:57
why did you get a thyroid scan then

maryann
06-08-08, 16:24
Ok, so I've got this funky throat thing happening for about 4 months now. I am not in "pain" but it is just discomfortable. Sometimes I feel like I have a lump by my adams apple (lower throat) - kind of like when you get all emotional and you are trying REALLY hard NOT to cry. So off I go to the Dr.'s and she says Globus Hystericus. We talk about it and I think - yup, I can see this, signs are there, stress etc. My question is now that I realize that I can control this (or at least I need to get my stress under control to get over this) how long should this take? I do feel better knowing that I don't have throat cancer and all the fun things I psyched myself up into believing I had. Dr. says reassurance from her is normally the key to the healing to begin. In otherwords....
"You are not deathly sick with a nasty disease so get over it!!) I just wonder if anyone else has had it and how long before you go sympton free?? I still have the odd spasm in my throat (it feels like a flutter) and I find if I have a really good cry I feel amazing afterwards. Just hoping someone else has experienced this too. Searching for some reassurance and hoping I'll get back to feeling 100% and not always having this in the back of my head.
hello there why did you have to have a thyroid scan for if your throat was ok kind regards maryann

nomorepanic
06-08-08, 18:15
It is unlikey this user will reply as this thread is very old - dates back to 2006.

guylondon121
07-08-08, 20:40
I've had some pain on the right hand side of my throat for the last 6 months, especially when swallowing saliva. I initially went to the doctor's thinking it might be a sore throat although, by looking at my throat, I couldn't see anything like white spots or redness. The doctor said I had no sore throat and advised to gargle with a desinfectant twice a day until the pain eventually would go away. After 2 weeks of gargling, the pain was still there so I went back to the doctor's and he advised to gargle with a different product. I tried this new product and quickly realised that it was as useless and the first one. After 4 months of gargling etc, I went back to the doctor's and demanded that he referred me to an ENT specialist without delay (he wasn't happy to receive an order from a patient but frankly I was fed up with the whole thing). The ENT specialist looked at my throat, nose, ears in deep detail and found absolutely nothing wrong at all. He reassured me that I had not cancer!

The symptoms I have been suffering from are very difficult to describe. Every time I swallow saliva or food, I feel some pain on the right hand side of the throat and every now and again, I feel like a cramp (again on the right hand side of the throat) that seems to start from the deep part of the tongue down to inside the throat. That cramp prevents me from moving my mouth, so I cannot really talk for a few seconds and have to drink a lot of water for it to go. It's just a nightmare and no one could tell me what it might be, until the ENT specialist advised that I had Globus Hystericus. He said it came and went by itself and was something generated by stress and anxiety.

Now, I have always been suffering from high blood pressure (which is purely called essential, they did a lot of blood tests, heart tests etc and this blood pressure has no cause, it's just genetic), so I have been on medication for quite a long time in order to control my blood pressure (which under medication is perfectly normal). The doctor put me on a drug called Ramipril (10 mg per day) earlier this year (to replace the one I was on before) and my throat symptoms got much worse with this drug. A very common side effect of this drug is to cause tickly cough and symptoms like sore throat although you have not got one. The ENT specialist I saw recommended that I was taken off Ramipril immediately and instructed my doctor to put me on an alternative drug (which is now Aprovel 150 mg). Since I switched drugs, my throat conditions have dramatically improved although I still feel a bit of pain, but not as much as before.

So all I wanted to say here was that when you feel pain in the throat, whatever it is and for no obvious cause, think about any medication you're on and read the leaflet to see the potential side effects associated with the drug. Speak to your doctor about the fact that some of your symptoms may be due to the side effects of your current medication. The ENT specialist told me that a drug like Ramipril to control high blood pressure makes the symptoms of Globus Hystericus much worse. At least, I have resolved 70% of the problem as I now have to deal with the real symptoms of Globus Hystericus, without them being amplified by the side effects of the medication I was on before.

Hope this helps some of you. Good luck!

Deez78
09-09-08, 16:15
Hi there

I am a new member and have been struggling to cope with many the symptoms other people have described...

My many problem is tight, sore and very unconfortable feeling in my throat and recently my ears. Sometime my throat feels like it spasms and feels so hard to try to relax it. Yesterday i went out and bought some Lavender oil to rub on my throat to try and relax me before i go to bed to make sure i get some sleep to have enough energy to cope the day after.

This is very frustrating and is very difficult to describe to other people what it is like and how you learn to cope with it.

Up until yesterday i never could put a name to it, not even my doctor could help me, just tried to put me onto anti-depressants, which isn't an option for me as they set off migraines ect.. But thanks to this website i realised i wasn't alone with this which is some comfort.

I had something similar years ago but not this bad and painful, it lasted quite along time but was rid of it for 4 years and in February this year return due to some stress in my life that i found hard to deal with. This time it has come back with a bang and its hard to focus and get on with everyday life without always going on.

My aim is to take each day as it come, deal with what it throws at me and try and learn to beat my stresses, anxities and complications in life..

Many Thanks

Deez78

RLJ
04-11-08, 23:03
Hi - I am suffering with a bout of Globus Hystericus at the moment. It went away for a couple of years but now seems to be back worse than ever before. Just been to my GP today, he said that if it doesn't get better, I can go back to him for further investigations into my throat. I don't see the point in this at all as I am sure that there is nothing actually wrong with my throat per se, it is psychological. I don't know what to do to make this go away this time, I get it in the evenings before bed and in the mornings when I wake up and I have started to dread the evenings. It also makes me feel sick.

I have a lot of sympathy with the people on this forum, and I find it reassuring to know that others are dealing with this too. Can I ask what treatments others have been offered by their GP?

Thanks very much.

may7
06-11-08, 21:03
Hi all,
I also have this feeling of lump in the throat and believe it has something to do with anxiety. I suffered from it about 25 years ago for 2years during my late teens. Then I went through hell, took my tonsils out, thought about it all day, but it goes away when I forget about it, socialising or happy. At last a doctor gave me a placebo tablet without my knowing it at the time and it disappeared the following day. It has just resurfaced again just last two weeks and probably because I have been through severe anxiety period in the last year. There are websites promising herbal remedies, not too sure, any one tried herbal remedy?

adamonenightony
01-03-09, 17:24
hey ive had this lump feeling in my throat ever since i smoked some weed and had a panic attack , have been sufferning from anxitey ever since , this was bout 3 months ago , i get this horrible scraching feeling on my throat and sumthing feeling like loss of air flow through my throat wat is this .

betty72
01-03-09, 17:40
Hi. Yes I had this a couple of months ago. It started off as if I was coming down with swollen glands for a few days then the discomfort was in my throat when you try and swallow and yes it feels like a lump in your throat you can't get rid of. I went to the doc who put me on Omeprozole for a month and it went away after a couple of weeks. She said it could be part anxiety and gastro reflux. Have you tried that medication? Unfortunately a few weeks after finishing the meds I've been having digestion problems and have posted for the first time today on here so its swings and roundabouts! It is a lot to do with anxiety because so many people have the same problem and I never knew about it until recently. Don't worry you're not alone and its nothing to worry about. x

adamonenightony
01-03-09, 17:46
thanks for replying , no i havent tried that medication the doctor has just put me on larazepan for my anxiety seems to help a bit , the throat feeling does tend to go away sumtimes then always seems to come back , it feeling to me like if i shouted it would really hurt my throat if you no what i mean

RLC
03-03-09, 01:34
I have the same lump feeling in my throat...cancer comes to mind....then I remember how much anxiety I have and have had for several years. This throat sympton is a new one for me, after reading many posts I have exactly the same throat issues as everyone else, it does put your mind at ease.

RLC
13-03-09, 17:10
Me too! How are you doing since your post is from awhile ago? The sides of my neck, shoulders & back hurt. My throat feels like there's something stuck and I'm burping or belching alot! It's annoying but my anxiety has been kicking my butt the past few months this lumpy feel is new for me.

MikeH
16-03-09, 23:36
I have read all the posts in this thread and am amazed at the different ways that Globus can manifest itself. Although I have not been officially diagnosed with it, I am quite sure that its what I have.

I originally read that it feels like choking, although for me it does feel like that at times but most of the time it is a severe tightness and/or tension that moves around my neck area and also comes and goes. I have had it for about 3 months now.

In my case it is mostly located in the triangular muscle on my front right side that runs from my right ear to above my collar bone and on my left side muscle where my jaw meets my neck. Sometimes it feels like a tightening or fullness under my chin and down my throat. It definitely feels muscular. Sometimes it feels like swelling but when I ask someone if my neck looks swollen they always say no. I have never really had trouble swallowing. It makes me want lto ift my chin up to make it feel better. Sometimes it cramps my jaw.

Relief during the day is minimal but when it leaves for a short while there is a cool sensation of relief in the area.

I keep thinking that a gland under the left side of my jaw is swollen but when I compare recent and old photos of myself I cant notice any appreciable difference.

I also have tinnitus which I have had for a while (a remnant of benzo withdrawal) but it has been much worse since this globus thing.

It really is annoying and unnerving and does tend to bring on my anxiety which, of course, only worsens it.

MikeH
19-03-09, 16:31
Can some of you with this offer some of your symptoms with Globus.

Does yours come and go or is it constant? Does it move around your neck or stay in the same place?

What I am experiencing is a severe tightness and/or tension that moves around my neck area and also comes and goes. I have had it for about 3 months now. It is mostly located in the triangular muscles on the front/sides of the neck that run from the ears to above the collar bone. Sometimes it feels like a tightening or fullness under my chin and down my throat. Sometimes it feels like swelling but when I ask someone if my neck looks swollen they always say no. I have never really had trouble swallowing. Relief during the day is minimal.

Can anyone relate? Your input would be appreciated. Thanks.

springblossom
23-03-09, 20:40
Mine is constant and feels like fullness in the neck and a tightening of the throat. It affects me so badly that I can't lie on a sofa or in bed watching TV as the angle makes my throat so uncomfortable.

Wee-Mee
23-03-09, 23:11
I get different things..A few eeks ago I had the lump in throat thing and it was like at the base of my neck at my collar bone and I felt the need to swallow all the time. But it gradually went away. Afew days ago though I felt it coming back and I jsut forced myself to forget about it.

But now instead,the big muscles in the neck all feel really sore and tense.

I dunno if it's all related?

MikeH
24-03-09, 19:53
Thank you spring and Wee-Mee. Mine seems to be a combination of both of yours. It is primarily in my big right neck muscle but sometimes feels like a fullness horizontally across (I can relate to the TV feeling), sometimes both.

I also try to ignore it but it is very prominent as well as annoying and unnerving.

trisha3
26-03-09, 16:04
Hi all,
I have also been having the feeling of a marble in my throat.
My doctor sent me for a scope on my throat to my stomach to see if I had any growths. None I am fine. Then he did tests for thyroid. I am ok there.
His feeling was do to my arthritis and medications I am it is causing this very uncomfortable sensation plus some stress in my life now.
So he has put me nalprazolam 0.25 mg 1 tablet at bedtime. It really helped.
I find however that during the day around 12:00 noon it reappears so he has said to take half a pill and see it that helps and it does.

Best of luck to all and hope your doctor can find out what is going on.

There is lots of web pages to read on Google search globus throat condition.
Trisha

catherine_r
27-03-09, 22:11
I know that feeling as I've had it today a feeling that I can't swallow although it's not affecting my appetite but it does leave me feeling uncomfortable - I am also trying to get used to this feeling but am in the same position and would like to know how you can cure this.
Cath:)

rtp123
27-03-09, 23:07
Hi
I guess this is some kind of justice for all the poking and proding I have done of my own patients.. but I am a physician who has developed what everyone else here has described.. It would be interesting to see how long everyone has had their symptoms for and if the symptoms of globus have ever gone away - I've read essentially all the medical literature on this subject and although there is a lot of information- I have not seen any estimate of duration.. thanks
rtp

bottleblond
31-03-09, 11:57
Hi rtp

I have had this symptom off and on for about 18years. It has varied in severity and once there, it is extremely difficult to rid yourself from.

I have convinced myself on many occasions that my throat was really going to close over. It is such a psyical symptom and extremely frightening.

I don't know about anyone else but when i get it, i drink lots of water, perhaps too much just to make sure i can still swallow. I eat mints and smear my necks in Vick's. :doh:

Anyway, Welcome along and i hope we can help you with your research.

Kind regards
Lisa

trisha3
01-04-09, 18:07
I have had this for 6 months now. I feel comfortable now I am taking nalprazolam. I have been on this medication for 1 month now. I also found if I have coffee the problems starts all over again= no coffee for me.

luigi44
02-04-09, 01:20
Hi all,
new to this but, at first it was just a sporadic apysode and then since last jan I'm having some serious attacks. Got omeprazole prescribed but it increases the syptoms instead of alleviating them. I'm also allergic to most medicines and tablets. In terms of diet/food is there anything that can help? Other symptoms are: dry mouth, swallen tongue with teeth marks either side, can't swallow as there is no much saliva left ........ it's a real problem. I fear going at work every day because if it happens there I would really struggle and there is noone I could talk to there ............... I do keep off alcohol, sugar, dairy, caffeine, roasted/fatty/spicy food,........ take some supplements to help with vitamins and minerals. Is there any medication without side effects? I seem to be allergic to all of them ..........

worryw
02-04-09, 12:07
Hi

Well I have just come back from the docs in a state of complete panic. She asked me a few questions, and had a look at my throat and glands....and I explained about my anxiety etc....and we talked about CBT etc. for which sh has referred me....but then right at the end of the appointment she looked at me and said 'Do you think you need a camera down your throat?' I said I did not know...She said it was probably better not to, as there was a smallrisk of perforation etc.....I'm at the stage where I am not sure if the symptoms are real or not ....and terrified I am not doing what I should....at teh moment I have that lump in the throat, and am so conscious of swallowing I find it difficult to eat etc...Can anyone help?

Mustardmit
03-04-09, 05:32
*Sigh* this is the complaint that has drawn me to this forum.
I first noticed the symptoms about 5 months ago -a constricted feeling in the throat with associated aching and swallowing that made it feel as if my oesophagus had turned into cardboard tubing! I thought "wtf is this!!?" when it first appeared and started thinking about throat infections or maybe cancer.
Ok so I've identified it and I *am* stressed -more than ever before and have accepted that I have this bl**dy thing. The events that have resulted in my stress are beyond my control and I am not into chemical repression (anti depressants -prozac etc) so, does anyone have any alternative solutions (I am listening to calming music/burning incense and repeating self affirmations and mantras like it's going out of fashion).
I'm doing yoga, cycling and walking but my throat still feels like a bl**dy chimney.
Any advice gratefully accepted.
MM

RLC
12-05-09, 21:10
Can some of you with this offer some of your symptoms with Globus.

Does yours come and go or is it constant? Does it move around your neck or stay in the same place?

What I am experiencing is a severe tightness and/or tension that moves around my neck area and also comes and goes. I have had it for about 3 months now. It is mostly located in the triangular muscles on the front/sides of the neck that run from the ears to above the collar bone. Sometimes it feels like a tightening or fullness under my chin and down my throat. Sometimes it feels like swelling but when I ask someone if my neck looks swollen they always say no. I have never really had trouble swallowing. Relief during the day is minimal.

Can anyone relate? Your input would be appreciated. Thanks.
Exact same with me also, my neck is tight on both sides, my ears crack when I stretch my neck to relieve the tightness, stretch my neck as far as I can to also relieve the knot I feel in my throat. STRESS! I do the same thing check for lumps and swelling in my neck and there's nothing. Again STRESS!

always-ill
19-05-09, 17:46
Im so bloomin fed up with this globus, (as well as a load of other stress symptoms), had it now since Feb. I am too currently experiencing a lot of stress and have been prescribed citalopram which I have been avoiding taking as I dont like pills and also too scared of the side effects, but I have tried everything else, diet, excercise, reiki, hypnotherapy, massage, a whole host of vitamins and supplements, affirmations and nothing has worked, so looks like the pills might just win as Im out of ideas :-(

blindmetalhound
26-05-09, 14:23
Hello Everyone

This is my first time on this website, I've just sent it up a few minutes ago, I have suffered with the same throat probelm for some time now, the first time it started I was about 13 and it was horrible doz it startd on Christmas Day and I couldn't eat my christmas dinner, a few weeks after it started again, and it lasted for about five months, it got to the point that I couldn't eat at all exept for things like skips, during the last three years I have been severely agoraphobic and over the course of those years it had started up again, luckily it is not as bad as it was before, I can eat but everytime I do I feel like I'm choking and so I can not eat during the day when I am on my own.

blindmetalhound
26-05-09, 14:28
Hello, for the young person that is worried about taking citalopram, I have been on them for the last two years, and they are pretty good, the one great thing about them is that they are not addictive unlike some other anxiety pills, and they don't have really any side affects, unfornately for me, I'm so used to it now that they hardl help me, however when I first started taking them I feel so different, I was chatty and happy and full of confidence and so I say to all of thoses who are worried about taking them is, trust your doctor and give them a try.

always-ill
07-07-09, 20:24
Well, I took the plunge and started on the citalopram 7 weeks ago, but I still have this lump in my throat. I think it did pass off for a bit as I cant remember feeling it 24/7, but I have had a particularly stressful weekend and it is back with a vengance :weep:

Apart from worrying me silly, it is really uncomfortable. Has anyone else had any luck beating this dreadful affliction??

clinky
14-07-09, 23:14
Hi Canada girl,
I'm new to the site so hello from the Uk.
I have globus Hystericus. Mine is bought on by stress, smells like perfume and air fresheners and cold weather. Icecream, icecubes...
I find that gentle throat massage down the sides of the larynx works.
Small gentle cirles and strokes to the sides.
Always wearing a scarf in cold weather .

Yawning helps me to release the muscles and a throat specialist from the hospital taught me how to release by saying "why me" with the back of your tongue up at the back of your pallet and saying it with a big grin and eyebrows-top of face up (as if startled. sounds totally rediculous but it works. It has really helped me.
All the best Clinky

Gort
22-07-09, 01:37
holy cow my story is the same as so many here.. its amazing how anxiety can turn from something i grew up supressing telling myself "its all in your head" to very real physical conditions. I've been to the doc twice and yes i (still a lil lol) diagnised myself with cancer which ive had in one form or another (in my mind) since i was like 12.. I'm now 37. Doctor says everything seems very normal via manual exam while swallowing and looking. Follow up in four weeks to consider barium swallow.. further tests. However Just reading these threads i had not found before are pointing to what i suspected.. i've got issues. I had very bad trouble sleeping but was/am able to get around that with ambien.. i think i may have just chased a demon out of my sleep(lessnesness) and into my throat. I'll continue to check this thread for advise. thanx!

Trimoko
22-07-09, 09:36
Hello Everyone!! Just thought I'd add my two penyworth to the discussion.

I had globus about 25 years ago. It lasted about a year then disappeared. But last year it returned with a vengeance! I can normally sleep ok, but as soon as I wake up I think about my throat and whether I'll get thro the day without a panic attack. Warm drinks help and I can eat ok. My throat feels very dry almost all the time.

I get a tightness roughly where the tonsils are and it seems to be back of my tongue downwards - like the feeling of mumps. It can and often does change sides as the day progresses. My throat gets so tight that I find it really hard to talk. It's like I've got a speech problem as I tend to slur when my throat gets bad - I guess thats because the spasm affects my tongue. I also feel like I got something tight wrapped round my throat.

In a state of despair, I asked the doc to send me for a camera down my throat. Had this done (it doesn't hurt, just feels a bit weird) and the consultant said my throat looked fine - in fact he said it looked very good!

I'm so fed up with this ruling me - globus dictates if and when I go out, and what I take with me (bottles of water, boiled sweets to lubricate my throat - but then I worry about getting the sweet stuck in my throat!!)

Reading your posts helps a lot - I'm so so glad I found this forum. Hugs to everyone xxx:bighug1:

Wee-Mee
21-08-09, 01:14
I have lump in throat issues again accpet this time I am really convinced something is really wrong :( like I actually look swolen round there at my neck! but I dunno then if I am imagining that too. Ggaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

:weep:

Just now I feel like I need to keep clearing phlegm from my throat by swallowin and when I do it is like something moves back in the same place..my chin actually feels swollen right under my chin like windpipe and down at where your throat meets your collar bones..almost feels like into my chest there is alump.

I am TERRIFIED it is cancer.

I cant hack much more to be honest :weep:

does anyone share these types of symptoms?

clarabo27
21-08-09, 18:28
Hi there!

I've suffered from this condition on and off for about 10 years and it's only today that I've been given a name for it and it is such a relief! It is difficult to describe to others; a feeling of being strangled, difficult to breathe and swallow etc, without sounding like a freaky hypochondriac!!

Each time the condition has flared up, I've been prescribed Prozac, which I take for about 3 months or so and the symptoms vanish completely within a couple of days of starting the course. At first, I was apprehensive to take medication that was associated with depression, because it has negative connotations and I certainly don't feel depressed! However, it solves the problem and, as I said, I've only taken a short course to get rid of the symptoms. Sadly though, this Globus Hystericus does rear it's ugly head every couple of years or so, but I just get a short course of Prozac and life can return to normal.

I hope that some members find this useful :-)

Laila-Saphire
24-08-09, 15:04
Hey there.
I thought i was the only one. This is a really scary condition but it is all in your mind. I have recently been having panic attacks wich are brought on by your brain and now i have globus AGAIN wich is also brought on by your brain. It can do awful things to you. I have obviously been really stressed out lately and having the sensation of something lodged in your throat doesnt make things any easier. You really do need to calm yourself though or you will end up driving yourself insaine wich i have done a few times. Just get a duvet sit on the sofa and feel sorry for yourself for a bit and calm yourself take a few days off of work or whatever it is you do and just take some time for yourself. This is a sign that you have too much stress and you need to find the source of it. Maybe councelling will help that is going to be my next step anyway. Also poor diet can cause acid reflux so you need to think about that also. Try not to eat acidic things like tomatoes and fruit also try cutting out fat for a week and then slowly introduce it again. Stress doesnt just go away so you need to do things that will make you feel up-beat and make you less tense. Get your partner to massage you go out and have fun with your friends no matter how hard it is to feel happy with this thing in your throat.

If it is really bugging you demand that your doctor referrs you to the ear nose and throat clinic so your throat can be looked and as just having the peace of mind that there is nothing in your throat can calm you.

It is hard to cope with i really do know as it makes me want to break down and cry sometimes wich is also ok. But you really need to start thinking possitivly and try and get into a better happier and healthier mindset as it is in most cases stress related.

I hope i have helped.

JoP38
04-12-09, 22:05
You have been a great help thank you, sat here really down with my little girl-fearing that I wont see her grow up!!!
I think if I could have a camera put down my throat, and be told that it's nothing, I'd have more strength to ignore and get over it
Have noticed recently with it I'm burping a hell of a lot, do u know of this being a symptom of Globus?
:blush:

nomoreglobus
27-01-10, 06:31
is this forum still active?

i have had globus for 5 years. a day does not go by that i am not overcome by the symptoms for at least several hours. i often go to sleep with it and wake up with it. if i have coffee it is dramatically worse. xanax helps. obviously i have some sort of underlying anxiety issue. i have never seen a therapist. any suggestions of types of non-medicinal anxiety therapy i should seek? it's literally been 5 years of physically feeling like i am about to cry, yet im not 'sad'. help this is ruining my life.

the digital blonde
14-01-11, 19:08
hi there my name is ricky.ive got this throat thing to and it drove me insane and nearly caused me to have a nervous breakdown...this started about 2 months before christmas .. first time i felt this it was strange , it was like i had an hair stuck at the top of my throat right at the back and becuse i had never felt this before it freaked me out a bit.. after a week it was still there so i went to my doctor.. he said i had larancgites and gave me some antibiotics,,,after taking the antibiotics it was still there i went back to my doctors with my wife and 5 year old daughter..the doctor asked me if i smoked wich i said yes about 15 a day he said i needed to go for i micro camera thing down my throat.. my brain my brain said this must be the c word and my brain was convinced this is what it was.. i lost controle and broke down in tears in the doctors office the doctor looked at me gone out and said it doesent mean the c word but my brain diddent listen i cryed all night long and the doc had to give me diazipan to keep me calm .. what made this worse was that i had to wait about 4 week for the camera wich at the time would have meant it would be after christmas i was hystercal and my little girl was waching her dad crying all the time wich was horrible..i started getting crazy anxiety attacks wich were evil i couldent breath and i was ucontroleable i couldent even think about christmas it just diddent exist i was numb the waiting for the appointment is the worst thing ever .. one night i just fliped out i was litrely screaming my mam was worring my wife had to take time off work to look after me...my mam rang the doctor and told him that i couldent go on like this and needed to get the camera rushed...he managed to get me the apointment 3 day before christmas eve..it was probably one of the horriblest day of my life..the cammera was like torture you can feel it pushing thru your head and it hurts he did it twice and told me that there was nothing there... i was so happy it was amazing...but the thing is i could feel that there was somthing there... but it got me thru christmas wasent a very nice christmas becuse i dident like eating as the feeling of an hair turned into the feeling of a lump and i felt like when i ate somthing a bit got stuck there... i have quite a crazy life i am a record producer who has to travel round the world doing concerts... i hate flying wich causes pannic attaks to.. beeing in the music industry i used to smoke a lot of canabis wich i know hasent helped my anxiety.. and in the summer last year i had an accident wich caused my arm muscle to rip off my bone i had to have an op and couldent do anithing for 7 weeks iwas a keybord player with one arm this caused me to get really depressed wich caused me to smoke more after i had my arm bracket off this is when the lump appeard...so the doctor as now told me i have globus hystericus cuased by the stress... he tells me not to think about it and it will go away this is imposible becuse i feel the lump then i think about it its not the other way round i still have it and it still rules my life i hate it and just want it to go away the thing is nobody as proved its this globus thing so the hysteria comes from not really knowing what it is the only good thing that as come out of this is that it as stoped me smoking completely..going back doctors next week for some smoke patches and im going to tell him i still have this...sorry if my story bored you lol but i know what you are all going thru its horrible

hypochonmom
02-03-14, 00:46
It seems no one has contributed to this thread in a while, but considering this is the first time I've ever had globus I wanted to tell my story. In early November I got sick with heartburn so bad I thought I was having a heart attack. I was so scared while going through h. pylori testing (my negative results took a week) that by mid November I had burning mouth syndrome and globus. What a nightmare! By the end of November I had drenching night sweats.

Convinced I'm dying I get an HIV test (took 2 more weeks to get my negative results).

By this time I start dabbling with acid reflux meds because I'm burping and the golf ball hasn't left my throat. Fast forward, I visit a gastro intestinal specialist, he does a scope and says nothing is wrong with me - NOTHING, no parasites, no cancer, no ulcer.

I see a dentist and periodontist because in addition to burning mouth my teeth hurt so bad on the bottom in the front. I am told it is most likely from clenching all night. I probably am clenching as I'm scared to death. Mind you by now, I've got these strange tongue ulcers and I'm freaking out.

Then I see the ENT, says I'm fine. Really? I have globus. Is it stress related, most likely. Starting Citalopram praying for some relief. I should mention the inside of my throat around my tonsils is a darker pink, I wouldn't say red but it does look inflamed as does the back wall of my throat. I'm not taking any ppi meds now because you can't take anything with the Citalopram, not even aspirin.

Most of my pain is on the right side. Sometimes it feels like it's at the very top of my neck and sometimes it moves down the V on the front of the throat. Yesterday it was in the other tonsil area? My mom died February 5th of a long-term illness and I'm fearing the same... this globus is certainly making things much, much worse. I've been suffering for 3.5 months now. I have noticed if I focus on globus the burning mouth goes away - burning mouth is worse by far. So maybe that's why globus is so bad right now, subconsciously I'd rather have globus than burning mouth?

Spacedextra
02-03-14, 09:38
I went to an ENT yesterday (here in London) and she said that stress and anxiety can cause you to produce more acid in your stomach. This in turn can cause symptoms like a cough, extra mucous, lump feeling in the throat and in turn, more stress, which in turn... etc etc!

The best way to stop the cycle, is to stop the stress, eat healthy, think positive, exercise lots and force negativity out of your system. Bad food and bad living are no good!