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Q: Panicked! Problem In Throat For Last 8 Months!
asked by: Dark Phase on March 16th, 2004
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Please help.
About 8 months ago I started having alot of clear, salty, slightly whited specked phlem that i've been coughing up. I cough throughout the night, and day. The phlem keeps reforming. I have also noticed that on occasion throughout the day that there is sort of an "icy hot" "menthol-like" feeling when I breathe in (it is not constant. Usually happens in late evening and night, and even then it's not all the time). More frequently lately i've noticed a more difficult time breathing and swallowing sometimes, everyday although as the other symptoms, usually more at night and not all the time. It feels as if there is a lump sitting in my throat choking me when this happens and I feel slight pressure when I try to swallow, although I can still swallow everything. I don't smoke, i'm in my early twenties, and i've been to the doctor's. He's told me that it could be asthma, panic attacks, allergies. I don't buy it. I don't know alot about asthma, but the symptoms don't seem to match, I have had panic attacks, and they are nothing like this, and I don't know to much as to what allergies could do. Can someone please help? I am scared to death.
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estrellita42
replied on March 16th, 2004
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I Had the Same
Hello I had the same symptoms and they even made an endoscopie to find out something else but it was panic attacks good luck
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2ferano
replied on March 16th, 2004
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When I first started having panic attacks that also happened to me. I had so much junk in my lungs and throat that I didn't know what was going on. But it was panic attacks, and when I worried it would make me gag and cough and have problems breathing.
But, if you don't buy it, get a second opinion!
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Dark Phase
replied on March 17th, 2004
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Do you really think that they are panic attacks?
I mean, can you always be coughing up phlem and it be panic attacks?
I thought that panic attacks didn't have constant symptoms.
Can they really?
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2ferano
replied on March 18th, 2004
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They can yeah. Everyone's anxiety is different in some way. I mean, it may be some other kind of problem that you need to rule out, but it could very well be panic attacks. It is weird, but it could be. Sorry I cannot explain better!
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stayhealthy
replied on April 26th, 2004
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My Son Has Tightness In Throat
Hello,

my son has tightness in his throat and it feels like a lump sitting in his throat pit. He had a couple of episodes when he felt like he was choking and went into a panic attack because of the sensation.

He ended up in the e.R. This weekend and they used a scope to take a look in his throat. It turns out that the lump in his throat is a polyp. This is causing the sensations, resulting in the panic attacks.

He'll have to have it removed. We're making an appointment with an ear/nose/throat specialist through our family doctor a.S.A.P.

Perhaps all of you who have this sensation should do the same????

Best of luck
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