Hi everyone. Since November of last year, I've been having this strange sensation in my throat.
It's kinda strange and tricky to describe, but it's similar to when you are holding back tears, you get that tightening feeling in your throat. I can swallow with no problem, and my breathing isn't affected. Plus, my tongue just feels tense.
I don't feel it when I wake up, but it seems to slowly come back during the day. It's seems to get stronger when I'm too focused on it, and when I just focus on it, I start to feel...nervous. My mouth, slowly starts to dry up. It gets so bad, that I can't speak. The tension in my throat gets stronger, that it triggers some kind of throat spasm which I can describe to something like gagging, but I don't gag. I feel like I might, but I don't.
This seems to happen when I'm stressed, anxious, nervous, and once I feel relaxed or out of danger, it slowly goes away. For example, I take the bus to work. While I'm on the bus, my symptoms are really bad. Once I get off, I feel "relief"
Same thing happens when going home.
Two days after Christmas, I had something which I believe was some sort of panic attack? The throat feeling was so bad, and I felt something like "fear" like if something bad was going to happen. I didn't go to work that day. I just felt so awful. My mom was worried about me and insisted go to the E.R.
Suddenly, I just felt so scared, I started crying. My mom called my sis, she came over. I couldn't speak, just cried. I described what I felt, and my sister said that it sounds like what she feels when her anxiety acts up.
I guess when the episode was over, I just felt so tired. I went to bed, and slept the whole night.
I have been under a lot of stress, plus I have a habit of keeping things inside. When I was crying that day, I felt a little better. The next day though, I just felt so vulnerable, I cried for anything.
I still get that throat feeling. Some days it's bad, some days it's hardly noticeable. Does anyone else feel this way? Sorry for the long post.