feels like lump in throat. Is it CANCER?

smandera · Newbie Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

I had strep for a week and was on medication. then ive noticed it was very painful swollowing it feels like a ball is stuck in my throat. well its been a couple of days now and still the same thing no change except for this morning not only does it hurt to swollow but it hurts to talk. does anyone know what this could be?

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lizzibizzi · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

i started to feel a lump in my throat about a week ago and of course my first prediction was cancer. i don't have swollen glands and the lump feels like its just to the side of my throat (right side). have you noticed that when you think about it, it feels much worse, but if you don't think about it, you don't feel it?! i also have heatburn. i smoke..but i'm trying so hard to quit..i think this is a sign.
i went to the doctors today..i had a blood test to see if anything is wrong with my thyroid. the doctor says that it could just be stress, i've read on the internet that this can be a sign of anxiety.
so my advice is to go to the doctors..to put your mind at ease.
good luck everyone!
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mflan · Newbie Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

sagitox · Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

I seriously can't believe how you can all have this feeling of a lump in your throat (a feeling I've known twice now) for more than a month. It drove me crazy this last time for just over a week and I couldn't handle it.

I guess I should tell my story. Hopefully my self-made cure can help others when Apples or some other 'cure' won't work.

First of all, ever since I can remember, I've always had vomit rise up like I was going to be sick and often. I always thought it was normal. Like it was suppose to happen and it happened to everyone. Boy was I wrong. When I was younger, and it happened, I couldn't help myself and was sick. But as I got older, I thought throwing up was childish, so I would always swollow it back down and go and get a drink to wash away the taste.

Little did I know, this was not normal, and that infact I had acid reflux. It's taken me 21, almost 22 years to realise this because I never spoke about it to anyone because again I thought it was normal. Anyway last year was my first experience of getting a 'lump in the throat'. I just remember it being really tight, hard to swollow and I remember my neck being sore. I would probably describe the feeling as a female feeling for the first time what it was like to have an adam's apple. Stupid analogy, but that's what it felt like. Never being male, myself, I never and will never know the feeling of one, so I guessed that this was what it might felt like.

Anyhow, the afternoon on the day that I first realised it, I searched google for "Lump in throat". At the time all that came up was that it was stressed related. I thought that could be it, seeing as I was a little stressed than what I usually was (I'm pretty mellow and carefree). So I dismissed it and tried to calm myself. After a few days, I didn't feel it anymore. I had just woke up a few mornings later, and everything was back to normal. I was grateful.

Anyhow just over a year later, in about July/August a nightly ritual began occuring. Every night when I was about to fall asleep, I rolled over to my left side and I began coughing. Coughing, coughing and more coughing. I couldn't help it. I wasn't sick at the time, but it was like I had some sort or irritation. After a while, I finally turned to my other side, and magically...it stopped. I had no explanation for it. The next night I took a dose of cough syrup and it stopped for that night. The next night, I didn't take any, and I started coughing again.

I couldn't do anything about it, unless I took a dose of cough syrup every night. I wasn't going to do that, especially when I could just go to sleep on my right side. Anyway for a few months I had it, and just continued to sleep on my other side. Then come mid-September of 2007, I woke up one morning to feel yet again the same feeling of the lump in the throat. I was so annoyed. I thought I had had it, and it had gone away forever.

This time however, I discussed it with my mother and my sister (who are both very knowledgeable with medical type issues, with my mum being a nurse in her younger days and my sister being an upcoming physiologist). My mum asked me about the feeling of throwing up into your mouth more often than not, and I said I experienced it alot of times over my life and that I thought it was normal. She told me it wasn't and it was called Acid Reflux.

So now knowing what it was, I searched the internet again trying to find a cure for Acid Reflux. All I came across was obviously antacid. I searched the house, and found three different types. Two were chewable and one you disolved in water and drank. My mum then asked me if I had felt heartburn, and I answered no, but for a while I had and had no explanation for it.

So I took all three different types (not all at once though). They seemed to cure the heartburn, but not the lump in my throat. After a week, I decided I was going to the doctors to see what could be done about it, but because I was scared it was cancer, on the day before I was going to make an appointment I told myself I wouldn't go just yet. "One more day, one more day". Everyday I hoped in the morning it would just go away. It never did.

I tried and tried to get rid of it. Trying to eat an apple slowly, it didn't work. Eating a banana didn't work either. I was about to try to go out and buy Apple Cider Vinegar, but I came to a conclusion that I would try myself to spew/vomit and see if that could relieve some of the pressure.

Well it worked, sort of, well better than the apple and banana. Instantly I felt relief. Through my nose also I was able to blow out clear phlegm/mucas. And that made me feel better also. I stopped however after vomitting once, because I had read about how it damages the enamel in your teeth. Also my vomit kind of scared me. Usually it would be a yellow colour, with..well..I hope nobody is eating while they're reading this..chunks of food. But this vomit was different. It was clear phlegm/mucas with black bits. I had just been drinking coke beforehand, so that could have explained the black, but the clearness of it I couldn't explain.

Anyhow for the next few days, I could swollow easier and I was happier. But then instead of the lump, I felt a tightness like never before. It was like I had had too much to eat, and it was kind of hard to breathe. So the next day, I made myself sick (once) and it relieved it a bit more. Finally the next day, I decided to do it again and not stop myself but keep going until I had emptied all of the clear vomit from my system and got to something that looked familiar. And it worked. After a few times of vomiting clear, the last time was yellow and it looked like what it should. There was slight burning in my throat, like normal (right?), and I just had a drink and now a few hours earlier. I feel great. Much much happier, no pain, no lump, no clicking, no clear phlem, no difficulty swollowing, NOTHING!

So that's why I can't believe how many of you have had this feeling for over a few months. A year is amazing, and two years with having it just blows my mind. I seriously couldn't handle it anymore, and had to do something. It seemed to work, so hopefully if you need a cure, and don't mind trying my way, I hope it works for you. It always turns out in the end, that the simplist little thing can work and help you in more ways than a much harder way.

sagitox · Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

I can't see a way to edit my above post, but I just wanted to add this link. It was the one that made me realise what was happening in my throat.

nexiumresearch.com/lump_in_throat_globus_hystericus.html

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I too was 24 when I found thelump in my throat. 2 wks ago i had surgery to remove my thyroid and now I'm trying to find someone to help me. The Thyroid tissue was fine but there was cancerous thymic tissue in my tumor. I have 2 friends under 25 who have had the same situation, one of which was cancer. This isn't something to mess around about. Chances are it's nothing, but if I hadn't pushed my Dr.'s and taken my health into my own hands, it could have spread before my next scheduled apt. Hopefully, we will find out this week that I pushed hard and fast enough! Prayers are welcome.

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Hi all

About 5 months ago me and my family went on a holiday in the Great Barrier Reef. I had been scuba diving for the first time, and it wasn't long until I found an annoying lump in my throat. It is about 100% more irritating when lying down and getting puffed out. It does not hurt, it is UNCOMFORTABLE. I had X-rays taken and nothing was there, it ruined my holiday and on the plane back it was 1000 times worse. When i pull my skin on my neck out a bit, it goes away, and the first few minutes of when I wake up it goes.
I sing, but sing wrongly which means I strain my voice, I am pretty sure this is the reason although I wanted to clear things up because it just came back again all of a sudden. AND I WANT IT GONE QUICK BUT EVERYONE THINKS WTF IS THIS KID ON ABOUT THERE NOTHING THERE!

Someone pleaseeee help if u have this problem too!!

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[first my ears felt like itwas a heat flash the in the next two days i feelt like a lump travel from my neck felt like it was goiond through my throat other then that i feel fine no pains no swelling not hard to swallow what could this be?should i see a doctor about this?

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