When something disturbs the throat, sometimes unpleasant sensations haunt a person for a long time, for years. A fairly large number of middle-aged people, both men and women (even more women), 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, but 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 the feeling does not disappear that something is interfering in the throat, as if a piece of food is stuck there or is squeezed by something, it is necessary to exclude by passing tests and examinations, diseases associated with the thyroid gland and other causes that directly speak about pathology. Suppose a situation where the tests are collected and none of the doctors have confirmed the disease. The thyroid gland is normal. There is no tumor, there is no swelling, nothing prevents breathing, a feeling of constriction arises and leaves suddenly.
Look at the situation soberly and don't panic
There are no signs of pathology. What can interfere in this case? Most likely, muscle spasm is accompanied by a feeling that something is stopping in the throat. Observe your condition immediately after waking up. When the throat hurts from a cold, then in the morning you feel pain in it, and when the problem is related to the fear of experiencing a feeling of tightness, then when you wake up, the throat does not hurt.
This is due to concern and the constant expectation of an unpleasant feeling, control over the act of swallowing and, to a greater extent, a sense of fear that again you will have to experience an unpleasant sensation. That is, the problem from the physiological area often goes into the psychological one.
Do not make calluses in your throat
Let's try to understand the problem when something in the throat is in the way. Consider the structure of the larynx (pharynx). The free tip of the epiglottis (petal), deforming with age, coagulates into a tube and bends towards the tongue (its root). Hardening and ossification of the epiglottis in women occurs later than in men, so deformation occurs to a greater extent.
Palatine tonsils are reduced in volume, and the lingual tonsil is slightly increased, which leads to mechanical contact of the root of the tongue and epiglottis. The most suspicious and emotional people notice this slight contact. Constantly focusing attention on it, checking whether something interferes with swallowing or not, they take throats without the need, when you do not need to swallow anything.
Such throats increase mechanical contact. Checking whether the sensation of interference in the throat is preserved or not, unnecessary sips are constantly made and thereby contribute to real mechanical contact in the epiglottis area. Additional friction is created, which over time becomes more rigid.
There are cases when a person experiences real asphyxiation at the time of the "empty" pharynx, the epiglottis does not deviate, as in an eating coma, but bends and closes the respiratory lumen. In such a situation, when something disturbs the throat, artificially induced vomiting usually helps.
A man goes in cycles in test throats, unnecessary and very harmful. There is inflammation, erosion, swelling of the larynx, corns on the epiglottis, as well as on the lingual tonsil.
Try to improve your condition yourself
To distinguish how serious the problem is, a simple technique allows. It is necessary to answer the question: is it difficult to breathe or painful to swallow? There is a feeling of an unpleasant lump, but swallowing food or water does not cause pain. In severe illness (neoplasms), food or water makes swallowing difficult, causing pain. And when the problem is in the mechanical contact of the epiglottis and the root of the tongue, then nothing gets in the way when eating. What recommendations do you need to remember and apply?
- Understand that this is not a pathology, but a "epiglottis syndrome", less focus on the problem.
- Stop swallowing in vain, control yourself.
- To help yourself, always carry non-carbonated water (tea, lemonade, chamomile broth) and take a sip when you feel like swallowing.
- Occasionally instill oil of plant origin in your nose (lying on your back) twice (or once a week).
- Oil can be "lubricated" (a quarter teaspoon) directly to the larynx.
- Do relaxing exercises on the muscles of the neck and larynx. Strengthen the neck muscles with exercise.