Since middle of December, right after a root canal, I have had a feeling that comes and goes in the back of my throat and ears that tickle/burn inside. It's always gone in the morning and goes away at night. I wear inner canal ear buds 10-18 hours a day, and have extreme anxiety. I have been to an internal medicine doctor, 2 dentist, an oral surgeon and finally a top local ENT who trained at Mayo and specializes in H&N cancers. They have done panoramic x-rays, upper and lower jaw x-rays, full oral screenings, with the ENT looking in my nasopharynx, back of throat and tongue, etc. Both doctors noted pretty bad irritation in the outer ear canals, and if that was all, I could let it go, by my throat feeling scares me. No lymph nodes swollen, no lesions, no facial palsy, just annoying ears that keeps me sticking my fingers in them, and throat tightness. I take high doses of an antihistamine that has a side effect of throat dryness and I have TMJ.
Anyway, I am just trying to determine how many more thousands of dollars to throw at this. My anxiety can drive the globus sensation, I know, but absent any abnormalities found by any of the doctors, ENT or dentist, there is not a medical necessity for additional imaging in their opinions and it's frustrating
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