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Q: Painful Swallowing
asked by: LDarcy on October 27th, 2005
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Ok, i'm new so a big hello to everyone and I was hoping that there are other people out there who have had the same problems as me and its a bit of a long story so please bare with me.

I swollowed a fishbone about 4 months ago and I couldn't swollow liquids or food at all and when I did swollow I had this weird central radiating chest pain. The throat guys couldn't get it out, but I had a huge scratch so I had antibiotics. After 4 weeks there was little improvement and when I did swollow I would be sick as it felt that the food was stuck so I had a barium meal and then a ct, which confirmed what I knew that there is nothing there, but I had a calcified piece of my gi tract near the bottom, but they thought that was incidental.
Since then nothings really changed I keep getting different resistant strains of strep throat, as soon as I came off the antibiotics it came back. (i'm not a carrier) but I still have this swollowing problem as it hurts so much and now I have pain under my breast bone at the lower end. I've lost a over 15kg in weight, and i'm so hungry, but i'm so scared to eat as its so paiful. I've never had any health problems before at the moment I have the perfect textbook life and no stress, i've never been depressed or had an eating disorder....Its just driving me nuts and I guess I want to know as it all in my head will it ever get better, when I do eat and it feels stuck I say to myself that theres nothing there, but I know that there is nothing there.
Please tell me that other people who have had similar experiences, and you can get better 'cause i'm at my wits end.

Ldarcy
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