it works, it makes the pain disappear but for a short period of time and then pain is back, for ho long u've been pressing?
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I have always held in my sneezes...recently I sneezed and it felt like a swallowed my throat. I feel a lot of tenderness below my adams apple. I went to the doctor and she gave me penicillin thinking it can be an infection. It was going away until I sneezed again and the pain came back. I woke up at 2am with intense pain and was getting ready to go to the ER. I suffered through the pain and went to urgent care. The 2nd round I got some kind of Acid reflux medication. I think it is do to the sneezing but it is scare to to research on the net. I have an appt. with an ENT in about 2 weeks. Has this happen to anybody else. Currently I touch below the adams apple and it is very sensitive. I have been drinking warm tea...but maybe this is a psychological cure??
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Yeah exactly the same thing here - tender just below adams apple... came from a sneeze for me, a lot of people mention it may be an air pocket in the trachea due to holding the sneeze and the pressure build up 'popping' it... hope the ENT helps, would be good to hear the results!
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Same thing for me except I wasn't holding in a sneeze. I have just been letting it out. So I brought the tissue to my nose when I felt it coming and let it blow. All of a sudden I felt a popping in my throat and boom, pain that is pretty high. Not as bad as gall stones...but not far off. Breathing seems fine, the lump in front of my throat is a nightmare on the swallow reflex, and the muscles feel out of place in my throat. Just posting here to add my voice to this phenomenon. Will post back as I recover or don't.
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So after a couple of days I am doing significantly better. I found that by pushing the bits and pieces in my throat until they clicked into place made the pain significantly less. Today i was able to push a piece much further back in my throat until there was a very loud click. When it did, a great deal of pressure was released and my throat feels merely sore now and not as though it is being stabbed.
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I am a deep tissue massage therapist and I just recently developped these symptoms after holding in a sneeze, from what I can tell its a strain in the small intrinsic muscles that move your thyroid(adams appel) up and down because the tissue definetly feels more tense on the right side than the left side which is pain free, find a competent RMY and get them to treat the deep throat muscles. hopefully I dont have an actual rupture in my throat like the start of this thread suggests :(.
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This is the same person I am just correcting RMY to RMT(Registered massage therapist) you can probably work it out yourselves but please exercise caution as you do have arteries in that area that could be damaged with too much pressure.
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i just have to say that this same exact thing happened to me last night. I didn't hold the sneeze in, though it didn't make it all the way out. I had the "AH" but instead of the "CHOO" no sound came out and there was a huge pain in my throat. I hadn't been holding it in, this just happened. Hurt all night.
It's the next day now, and my throat hurts less but still hurts.
It's the next day now, and my throat hurts less but still hurts.
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So...this will probably be my last update. For the last week the pain was much less, but I went ahead and waited to post until the pain was all the way gone. Today I ended up trying to reset the pieces of my throat one last time and I managed to get the last part to set in what feels a proper way. All the pressure is gone and starting today I was able to sneeze without pain. Even two days ago sneezes were unbearable. So for anyone looking for timescales my post run from the start of symptoms to the end of symptoms.
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I held mine in so I wouldn't wake my baby during a 3 hour drive. I lost my voice for about a week.
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Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. CT scan showed air around my throat and upper chest area from a tear in my air way. "Subcutaneous emphysema". A week ago went to my ENT -- who did my major sinus surgery a few years ago -- and he said these injuries to the neck can take 8-12 weeks to heal, just like any other injury. Still hurts to swallow, although the pain subsides ever so slightly with each passing day. Ibuprofen and warm compresses at night help. Sips of warm salt water. Hot tea and honey too.
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Noone chooses to hold it in. in my case I couldn't sneeze. It felt like I was about to, and then poof I couldn't. When I was finally able to it hurt the left side of my throat. So obviously this isn't just people holding their sneezes in on purpose.
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Hey all,
I am not a medical doctor, but like you, I am experiencing these same symptoms.
After much investigation, I can conclude we all have the several of the potential issues:
1. The easiest is you sneezed and expanded your throat and stretched the muscles around your esophagus.
2. You have a rare case of omohyoid syndrome
3. You have esophageal diverticula, which is a rip or tear in your esophagus which presents similar symptoms to the first, but is more extreme. It's also these "air pockets" people keep mentioning.
Probably a good idea to get to the doctor and check it out. Throat cancer and esophageal cancer can cause similar symptoms as well, but only the smokers I would think would need to worry about that. The third one above sometimes will require surgery if it is really bad, but it is not necessarily life-threatening, only if it is really really bad. And I don't think you'd be typing your symptoms if it were.
Rest, ice, and proper sneezing will likely be the advice by the doctor; and it will take likely weeks to months to heal fully (I keep re-injuring because it seems like I only sneeze in places I can't let loose). However, there is a slight risk for the deeper diagnosis here, so I would go make sure at the doctor as I plan to. Catching it and treating such a case early will be greatly in your favor. But I wouldn't worry, because it's far more likely the treatment will be rest and wait.
Hope this helps everyone.
I am not a medical doctor, but like you, I am experiencing these same symptoms.
After much investigation, I can conclude we all have the several of the potential issues:
1. The easiest is you sneezed and expanded your throat and stretched the muscles around your esophagus.
2. You have a rare case of omohyoid syndrome
3. You have esophageal diverticula, which is a rip or tear in your esophagus which presents similar symptoms to the first, but is more extreme. It's also these "air pockets" people keep mentioning.
Probably a good idea to get to the doctor and check it out. Throat cancer and esophageal cancer can cause similar symptoms as well, but only the smokers I would think would need to worry about that. The third one above sometimes will require surgery if it is really bad, but it is not necessarily life-threatening, only if it is really really bad. And I don't think you'd be typing your symptoms if it were.
Rest, ice, and proper sneezing will likely be the advice by the doctor; and it will take likely weeks to months to heal fully (I keep re-injuring because it seems like I only sneeze in places I can't let loose). However, there is a slight risk for the deeper diagnosis here, so I would go make sure at the doctor as I plan to. Catching it and treating such a case early will be greatly in your favor. But I wouldn't worry, because it's far more likely the treatment will be rest and wait.
Hope this helps everyone.
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