I have a couple of interesting problems with my mouth and throat. They're pretty irritating and I'd love to know if they're all linked somehow.
Problem number one:
I have issues with salivating sometimes.
It generally has to do with me thinking about a particular food item or having a craving. I start to salivate and then a sharp pain starts throbbing in the curve of my jawline closest to the ear.
Before I realized that water can help it out a little, my jaw and lower cheeks would puff up nearly mump-sized. I don't even need to be eating the food... I just need to think about it or smell it and my jaw feels like it's being stabbed.
It hurts to the point of tears and doesn't stop for a long while. The only thing that I can down is water at that point and that slowly eases it away.
Problem number two:
I have pockets in my throat that store food and sometimes prevent me from swallowing pills.
A few years back, I had a sore throat. I went to the bathroom to look in the mirror and straight in the back of my throat was a molar-sized... well... thing... poking out. I freaked out, thinking that it actually somehow was a tooth... (I watch way too much Medical Mystery...) and I ran to the school nurse for help.
It seemed like she knew exactly what the problem was. She grabbed up a tongue depressor, told me to open wide, and I heard a little squish. The pain was instantly gone and out on top of the tongue depressor was a marble-sized white ball. She told me it was food and that sometimes people have pockets in the back of their throat that pick up a and build up food particles.
I have NEVER heard of this happening to anyone and I can't find an answer or a name for it or even a treatment option for it. It's driving be bonkers! Sometimes pills get stuck in the pockets and I feel them in there for HOURS and it tastes gross. My breath can be pretty gross sometimes, too. :-(
The closest I got to an answer was on this blog here: https://www.steadyhealth.com/Something__food___in_throat_t91852.html
If anyone has any clue or even a similar situation it would be SO COOL if you could help me out! I don't have health insurance and I probably won't for a long time, so... if I could figure out what to do without going to the doctor's office that would be wonderful!
Problem number one:
I have issues with salivating sometimes.
It generally has to do with me thinking about a particular food item or having a craving. I start to salivate and then a sharp pain starts throbbing in the curve of my jawline closest to the ear.
Before I realized that water can help it out a little, my jaw and lower cheeks would puff up nearly mump-sized. I don't even need to be eating the food... I just need to think about it or smell it and my jaw feels like it's being stabbed.
It hurts to the point of tears and doesn't stop for a long while. The only thing that I can down is water at that point and that slowly eases it away.
Problem number two:
I have pockets in my throat that store food and sometimes prevent me from swallowing pills.
A few years back, I had a sore throat. I went to the bathroom to look in the mirror and straight in the back of my throat was a molar-sized... well... thing... poking out. I freaked out, thinking that it actually somehow was a tooth... (I watch way too much Medical Mystery...) and I ran to the school nurse for help.
It seemed like she knew exactly what the problem was. She grabbed up a tongue depressor, told me to open wide, and I heard a little squish. The pain was instantly gone and out on top of the tongue depressor was a marble-sized white ball. She told me it was food and that sometimes people have pockets in the back of their throat that pick up a and build up food particles.
I have NEVER heard of this happening to anyone and I can't find an answer or a name for it or even a treatment option for it. It's driving be bonkers! Sometimes pills get stuck in the pockets and I feel them in there for HOURS and it tastes gross. My breath can be pretty gross sometimes, too. :-(
The closest I got to an answer was on this blog here: https://www.steadyhealth.com/Something__food___in_throat_t91852.html
If anyone has any clue or even a similar situation it would be SO COOL if you could help me out! I don't have health insurance and I probably won't for a long time, so... if I could figure out what to do without going to the doctor's office that would be wonderful!
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I know exactly what you're saying. This is only the second time in my life I've ever had this and the last time was only about 6 months ago. It comes out of nowhere, or so it seems.
I start with a tingling feeling in my gland right under my ear, like that feeling you get when you try to blow up a really tough balloon, then I can just look at food and the thought of eating sets off this gland and it hurts like hell?! I'm starving but cant eat! So I drink green tea all day. Last time it lasted a couple of days then went away, not sure why it happens. I don't swell up though, just the pain when I salivate on only on one side??
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I start with a tingling feeling in my gland right under my ear, like that feeling you get when you try to blow up a really tough balloon, then I can just look at food and the thought of eating sets off this gland and it hurts like hell?! I'm starving but cant eat! So I drink green tea all day. Last time it lasted a couple of days then went away, not sure why it happens. I don't swell up though, just the pain when I salivate on only on one side??
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I found this because I was searching for information regarding pain when salivating. I also experience searing pain in my jaw below my ear when I smell good food, or first take a bite. It is consistent but not severe enough to not eat, just really unpleasant and it goes away shortly after. I've had it all my life, so I never knew it was abnormal, until someone asked me why I was making a face... What is it? I wanna know too!
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Did you ever find out what the problem is? I have the same thing happening to me right now. Any help would be appreciated!
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The pockets that hold the white lumps in your throat sound like tonsiliths or tonsil stones. I've had them for years. Usually don't bother me but they can smell foul so I have to clean house periodically
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Why would the piece that hangs in the back of my throat start swelling out of nowhere?
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