Hi all, 

 

Im 22, iv smoked since i was around 15, cigs and cannabis joints, and also drank quite heavily over the last 6 years.Iv stopped on and off but Iv now grown up and realised that i cant carry on so around 3 week ago iv stopped everything dead, for good! 

Im also a decorator and have always been breathing in dust and such at work for the last 3 years

Now im getting the symptoms i described in the title. I constantly feel like there is something on my chest and i need to clear it and my voice is very hoarse sometimes. 

I suffer from anxiety so im getting very paranoid about throat/lung cancer as iv looked online and all my symptoms tend to suggest chronic laryngitis or throat cancer 

Could my symptoms be down to the fact iv stopped smoking? i did think this initially but i dont have a cough nor do i cough any sort of flem up. 

I did go to my doctor and he said it seemed my throat was slightly inflamed and suggested i had a slight case of laryngitis , he prescribed me a weeks course of Anti's and they made it ever so slightly better but iv still got the same symptoms i had in the first place.

Been back to the docs and they sent me for a routine Chest X-ray but iv still not heard back from them so im sat here worrying. 

The doc did not mention that it could be down to stopping smoking or anything so im just wanting some other peoples opinions really as our doctors arnt exactly great a lot of the time.