Something is in the throat. How to cope with a constant fear

When something stirs in the throat, sometimes unpleasant sensations persecute a person for a long time, for years. A fairly large number of middle-aged people, both men and women (women even more), experience similar feelings. They are described in different ways, from a simple unpleasant feeling to a constant coma in the throat. People go to doctors, change specialists, undergo tests, and there is no significant improvement, and doctors answer the patient's questions that everything is normal.

Make sure that discomfort is not a disease

When for a long time there is no feeling that something is hampering in the throat, as if a piece of food has been stuck there or it has been squeezed by something, it is necessary to exclude, having passed tests and having passed examinations, diseases related to the thyroid gland and other reasons directly speaking About pathology. Suppose the situation when the tests are collected and none of the doctors has confirmed the disease. Thyroid gland is normal. Tumors are not present, puffiness is not present, to breathe nothing stirs or prevents, the feeling of a depression is arisen and leaves suddenly.

Look at the situation soberly and do not panic

There are no signs of pathology. What can interfere in this case? Most likely, a muscle spasm is accompanied by a feeling that something is hampering in the throat. Observe your state immediately after awakening. When the throat hurts from a cold, then in the morning you feel pain in it, and when the problem is associated with fear to experience a feeling of squeezing, then when you shed your throat does not hurt.

This is due to concern and constant expectation of an unpleasant feeling, control over the act of swallowing and, to a greater extent, a sense of fear that again one will have to experience an unpleasant sensation. That is, the problem from the field of the physiological often turns into a psychological one.

Do not make corns in your throat

Let's try to understand the problem, when something in the throat hinders. Consider the structure of the larynx (pharynx). The free tip of the epiglottis (petal), deforming with age, coagulates into the tube and curves toward the tongue (its root). The hardening and ossification of the epiglottis in women occurs later than in men, so the deformation occurs to a greater extent.

Palatine tonsils decrease in volume, and lingual tonsil slightly increases, which leads to mechanical contact of the root of the tongue and epiglottis. The most suspicious and emotional people notice this insignificant contact. Constantly accentuating attention on him, checking, interfering with something when swallowing or not, they take a sip without the need, when nothing to swallow is not necessary.

Such pharyngeal mechanical contact is increased. Checking, preserved, gone or not sensation of interference in the throat, unnecessary throats are made constantly and thereby contribute to a real mechanical contact in the epiglottis. Creates additional friction, which over time becomes more severe.

There are cases when a person experiences real suffocation at the time of the "empty" pharynx, the epiglottis does not deviate, as in a coma, but curls and blocks the airway. In such a situation, when something hinders in the throat, artificially induced vomiting usually helps.

The person is obsessed with test sips, not necessary and very harmful. There is inflammation, erosion, puffiness of the larynx, calluses on the epiglottis, and also on the lingual tonsil.

Try to improve your condition yourself

To distinguish how serious the problem is is simple reception. It is necessary to answer the question: is it difficult to breathe or painfully swallow? The feeling of an unpleasant lump is, but swallowing food or water does not cause painful sensations. With serious illness (malignancy), food or water makes it difficult to swallow, causing pain. And when the problem is in the mechanical contact of the epiglottis and the root of the tongue, then nothing prevents eating. What recommendations should I remember and apply?

• Understand that this is not a pathology, but an "epiglottis syndrome", and less focus on the problem.
• Stop swallowing in vain, control yourself.
• To help yourself, always carry water, non-carbonated (tea, lemonade, chamomile broth) and take a sip when you want to swallow.
• Occasionally bury in your nose (lying on your back) two times (or once a week) vegetable oil.
• Oil can be "lubricated" (a quarter of a teaspoon) directly the larynx.
• Do relaxing exercises of the muscles of the neck and larynx. Strengthen the muscles of the neck by physical exercises.