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[CLKD]

If it ain't got worse in recent days ………….. 

[Justjules]

Sparkle, it's the next 'fold' that sticks out after your tonsils when you stretch your mouth and throat out....it feels a bit raw from the base where my ear and throat connect if that makes sense.... it's a creamy colour like some of the other areas around your mouth but seems an actual round shape whereas the others areas seem to blend back into the rest of the skin colour.....  x

[Claireylou]

Hi Justjules,

Could it be a bit of oral thrush? You have me sympathies. I've always got a sore throat, ear neck. Always only on the right side. My doctor always says it's the glands in the neck that are swollen but don't hurt are the ones to keep a careful eye on.

I hope you resolve this soon. Health anxiety is a living nightmare xxx

[CLKD]

It can take over - feeling, prodding, poking, worrying …….. any improvement?

[Justjules]

Well probably a little less through the day but worse at night and first thing which is often the case....

Hasty, no, nothing related to tonsils - have had the tonsil stone thingys years ago....yukky things.

[CLKD]

Maybe sleep on your side so that your jaw doesn't drop open = dryness ?  ?

[lesh1]

JustJules, I just wanted to say I completely understand where you are coming from as I am exactly the same.I don't get ill very often but when I do in my mind it can never be a normal illness but has to be something sinister.Like you I cant help myself and have to google then wish I hadn't.When I am going through something like this I try and put my sensible head on and give myself a stiff talking to ...mind over matter but it's not easy.  If you can bring yourself to make a doctors appointment you will feel so much better.My last scare was skin cancer and I was petrified but I nearly skipped home when the doctor gave me the all clear x

[Justjules]

Lesh1, I know, we're our own worst enemies aren't we?  I know that we can't always expect to be well, especially as we age but I wish I could just become more accepting of things like illness as part of life but I can't.  There has been one thing on top of another lately in the family to deal with so that makes me even more anxious about anything I may or may not have.

Sparkle, I haven't but I've told myself that I will by the end of the week if it is no better - I'm such a scaredy cat! x

[Justjules]

Aaah thanks Sparkle, that's really nice of you.

To be honest, no better.  Need to make a Drs appointment as I'm going to get myself in a state if I leave it much longer.  Throat really sore yesterday and felt rubbish - not sore this morning but neck still sore!  Trying to ignore it thinking it is just a virus and will go but it's not looking like it and I can't keep off the forums looking for similar stories and then scaring myself to death with the tests I will have to have etc!  Damn HA.  I have got an awful lot of stress on at the moment with one thing and another so that's not helping and because it's all been bad news lately, I'm convinced that this will be something bad on top of everything else!!! Oh how I wish I was a more positive person!  xx

[CLKD]

So become more positive?  Stop using the computer for 10 days …….. so you don't look at the various scare stories.  I remember when we didn't have computers.  We might have access to the Medical Dictionary in the Library but you had to be a certain age to access that!

Has the sensation become any worse since you began the topic?  Do you sleep with Gob Wide Open which might account for the dry/sore throat?  What is the worst that it could be?

[Justjules]

CKLD, it's one of those 'superstitious' things where I think if all of a sudden I think positive on this occasion, this is the one that will be bad - tried to address that at CBT but not worked!  Ha, yes, no ipad or access at work would be good but I'm so weak, I give in as the anxiety gets the better of me.  I'm making excuses I know.....
Remember having the good old medical encyclopaedia when I was a young girl - always sneaking it out to read up on some sort of illness (so you see, I started young!!).....er, throat cancer/head and neck cancer???  Yes, I do wake up now on my back with my mouth wide open - why all of a sudden I do that after being a front sleeper all my life I don't know!  Been on and off really.  Okay this afternoon but now hurting a bit on the other side of throat - very weird. 

[CLKD]

I have reflux. Usually when I swallow my evening meds too close to laying down.  As well as vicious reflux with a cold  .  I can associate it with both the above so my brain doesn't worry.  Nor does it worry when I get heartburn - because it's always at the same time of night and that can't possibly be a heart condition: can it 

Justjules - if it was serious, by now you would have more symptoms ;-).  Go back to CBT?  It's not about being weak, it's knowing that when you do a search any anxiety will lessen for a while.

Been reading about someone who went cold turkey - had 4 days at a retreat where there was NO Wifii etc..!  I note that when I'm away doing other stuff I rarely need to look at my mobile or computer …….. chocolate, however    .

I have the superstitious issue about flying - never ever having been to an airport nor set eyes on a plane close to, it would be my Luck that should I decide to fly ………   

[Justjules]

Sparkle, yes I do have reflux but it is under control with lanzoprazole but if I forget to take it, boy do I know!

CLKD, yes, could do with going back to CBT as GP suggested but the waiting list is around 4 or 5 months.  Oh the thought of a retreat 

Megamind, I've got no adenoids but mouth not too dry just keep sleeping with it open lately even though nose is not blocked. The only other thing I've started with is like rhinitis which starts after I've brushed my teeth and then for about an hour I'm constantly clearing my throats and blowing my nose and it's really annoying!

[Megamind]

JustJules, I am the same on a morning. When I first wake up, I have a lot of mucus and a runny nose. I think it's allergy related. Try the anti histamine and see if it makes any difference. I don't think you need to worry it's anything more sinister as I agree with CLKD, your symptoms would have progressed and the two people I know who had throat cancer, their symptoms progressed quickly and they both could barely speak due to lost voice. 

[Justjules]

Sparkle, I take 20mg every morning after breakfast. I have no gallbladder so I think I will always need to be on them.

Megamind, I hope so. Always have to jump to catastrophic possibility first!

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