Gail May
28-11-10, 14:13
Hi, this is my first posting on this site and I would really like some help at the moment.
Three years ago my husband and I moved from the UK to live in France and for the first few months everything was wonderful. We subsequently went through a year of high stress and anxiety as a company set up close to our house, making hot tar! Not the sort of idyllic retirement we had planned. Needless to say and cutting a long story short, it took us over a year to sort this problem out along with our neighbours.
Last September (when we had finally sorted things out and I started to relax), along came a pressure feeling in the right thyroid area of the base of my throat. Went to Drs and then Endo who said I did have nodules but these would not cause me this pain. I visited my dr again who put it down to muscle tension due to anxiety etc., (I should say I suffer with emetophobia and health anxiety).
Since last September my throat has gone from pressure pain, to one of strangulation, then I started to feel that when I ate bread at lunchtime, it felt like I had a dry spot in my mouth and felt like crumbs would stick in this area.
During the summer of this year, the feelings died down but almost exactly a year to the week, at the beginning of this September I started to feel a lump sensation in my right throat and I had the feeling of crumbs sticking after I ate. I have to say that it helps the feeling to eat and drink, it just seems like after I have finished eating, I have the problem.
I have had a flashlight down my throat and can see that at the back of my throat (not on the tonsils), I have what looks like white patches as far down as I can see. These are not sore but do give me stinging sort of pains sometimes.
I am very worried that I may have cancer of the throat as I cannot begin to think what all of these pains and sensations, together with these white patches could be. Whatever I have started over a year ago, and the doctor says it is nothing to worry about, but the anxiety is beginning to take over my life again. My Doctor (who is French) is wonderful, but I do not want to go back to him again about this problem.
I should also mention I have been having pains all in my upper back and neck which the dr has also put down to tight muscles due to stress.
Sorry for such a long email, but has anyone had anything like this - and can put my mind at rest?
Thanks so much for reading this long post!
Three years ago my husband and I moved from the UK to live in France and for the first few months everything was wonderful. We subsequently went through a year of high stress and anxiety as a company set up close to our house, making hot tar! Not the sort of idyllic retirement we had planned. Needless to say and cutting a long story short, it took us over a year to sort this problem out along with our neighbours.
Last September (when we had finally sorted things out and I started to relax), along came a pressure feeling in the right thyroid area of the base of my throat. Went to Drs and then Endo who said I did have nodules but these would not cause me this pain. I visited my dr again who put it down to muscle tension due to anxiety etc., (I should say I suffer with emetophobia and health anxiety).
Since last September my throat has gone from pressure pain, to one of strangulation, then I started to feel that when I ate bread at lunchtime, it felt like I had a dry spot in my mouth and felt like crumbs would stick in this area.
During the summer of this year, the feelings died down but almost exactly a year to the week, at the beginning of this September I started to feel a lump sensation in my right throat and I had the feeling of crumbs sticking after I ate. I have to say that it helps the feeling to eat and drink, it just seems like after I have finished eating, I have the problem.
I have had a flashlight down my throat and can see that at the back of my throat (not on the tonsils), I have what looks like white patches as far down as I can see. These are not sore but do give me stinging sort of pains sometimes.
I am very worried that I may have cancer of the throat as I cannot begin to think what all of these pains and sensations, together with these white patches could be. Whatever I have started over a year ago, and the doctor says it is nothing to worry about, but the anxiety is beginning to take over my life again. My Doctor (who is French) is wonderful, but I do not want to go back to him again about this problem.
I should also mention I have been having pains all in my upper back and neck which the dr has also put down to tight muscles due to stress.
Sorry for such a long email, but has anyone had anything like this - and can put my mind at rest?
Thanks so much for reading this long post!