I've read on here about people getting severe chest pains and aches and sore throats - I get the sore throats and sometimes feel like someone is standing on my chest - but by far the strangest thing is this feeling I get very often - nearly every day - which feels like someone has put a pipe down my throat and wedged it there (feels like the camera is down me in endoscopy again). I can swallow ok - it's just this heavy uncomfortable feeling?!
I get all kinds of weird t hroat sensations that weird me out. The PPI's cause a tight throat the stops when I stop taking them. My intolerance to PPI's is quite new. I also feel like I can't breathe in my throat and an area of my throat hurts when I take a deep breath. It's down at the botttom of my throat. Neck scans with contrast, ENT camera, barium swallow and swallow study all show nothing. I had a thyroid ultrasound and it showed 2 small nodules, but I am told they are too small to cause symptoms. Still trying to figure it out.
Dear Glennie,
i too suffer Same symptoms not all the times but get food stuck in throat and at times feel as though I'm choking.
also get a feeling I have a golf ball type thing stuck in my throat but on expelling know that it's just trapped air.
it s very disconcerting and scary but having had it investigated can assure you it does not stop you swallowing although it is at times painfull to swallow and feels like a tight ridge of pain round my neck (that's scary)
but after exhaustive tests I know it's only trapped gas from the hernia relaying into your throat your not alone ask anyone with a hiatus hernia at some point they all get throat and chest symptoms.try not to stress that makes it worseregard Boho
Thanks Boho!
At least it's reassuring I'm not alone in this one! Oh the joys of a hiatus hernia :-/
Hi Glennie,I was diagnosed with HH Feb 2013 and had like a bubble feeling stuck in my throat for the last 18 months but suddenly in the last few weeks it,s gone don,t know why all of a sudden,but have been slowly comming off omeprozole for 3 months and now down to 10 mgs every other day,also not been doing the weights for two months so this might have something to do with it
Hi Dolphin,
I can't do PPI's either - been put on ranitidine now - but it's not as effective - and I was told this before I was put on it. I am looking into the op - and being realistic - I may have a fight on my hands! But I find the meds don't really do much for me,
Hi Argzxoni,
I'm not on PPI's anymore - on ranitidine - and I've had this for quite some time now. Seem to get it more often - and I can't blame it on weights - maybe cleaning the bathroom today :-) who knows?! Eating and drinking don't make it go away - it comes and goes as it pleases......
Hi Glennie. Yes, the sensation you describe is what I had frequently when I was on daily Omeprazole.
I have been getting fed up to the back teeth with the chest pains, neck and arm pains and having to sleep propped up so three days ago I decided to try out a new approach to my HH, reducung medication to just Gaviscon as needed. I've reduced my caffeine to one cup of (proper) coffee each morning but the real key seems to be drinking a mug of hot water with a lemon slice just before bed, and another one first thing in the morning. The one time I forgot, I had the acid reflux back within the hour. I'm feeling loads better so I'm going to keep on with it
Hi Trish,
Will definately give the lemon a try - I gave up everything except 2 'dishwater' coffees a day - sad thing is most of the things I really love seem to be an acid trigger :-( I actually don't know what had triggered my throat to feel like this today - can't blame it on PPI's as I'm not on them anymore!
Hi yes I get it as well, sometimes when I eat and swallow it feels like a boiled sweet stuck and I have to stop eating, i have smokers like cough when bad even though I dont smoke.I had the test done were they put the tube down for 24 hours to monitor acid pain and cough, , they told me my swallowing was slow due to muscle in eosphogatus not working properly seeing consultant on tuesday to see if he can operate, my hiatus hernia is painful makes me feel full all the time and I get flutter/palpitations in my chest feeling of been winded
Hi Linda,
I have to see a surgeon in December - Haven't had the 24hr monitor - but I'm sure that will be done at some stage. I am seeing this guy as my original consultant didn't listen to a lot - and tried to talk down to me as if I didn't know my own body! Let me know how you get on!
Hi will let you know I have been messed about a bit had endoscopy but had to wait 10 months for results and see specialist only for him to say it was too long ago so had to have another one then waited 7 months, he then deceided to do 24 hour monitor test. Was suppose to see him with 4 weeks of 24hr test and that was done in June so I hope when I see him Tuesday it will be to discuss which op either 360 degree or 180 ( due to my swallowing problem will let you know fingers crossed
Hi Linda!
Good luck with that! I have to wait until December - but I feel a bit happier I am having a second opinion - the first guy was a locum - and was like talking to a brick wall! Fortunately my GP is wonderful and sorted a date with a surgeon in another hospital. Do let me know how you go - I have my fingers crossed for you!
It's normal for people with hernia's to have those symptoms. I get them too. Feels like I have something stuck in my throat permanently and also a sore throat all day, every day. Most days I have pain in my diaphragm.
Hi, I also have a constant sore throat. It's the most bothering symptom for me. Have you managed reduce it? Any advice is appreciated.
I think I want hiatus hernia repair surgery to get rid of the sore throat, and upper stomach discomfort.
I have a constant sore throat, and wierd upper stomach discomfort. It constantly bothers, depresses me. I want to have hiatus hernia surgery to get rid of these symptoms.
I get the same sensation a few times a week.I put a hot water bottle on neck, under jaw. The feeling does go away.
Hi, I hope to get surgery myself. In fact I have manometry test and ph test next week before seeing surgeon in a couple of weeks time. I hope you can get yourself sorted too. It can be a bit of a curse!
Hi Keith,
It's quite reassuring to know that there are other people who feel the same sensations. I don't find warmth helps me so much and righf now I feel the sensations more as I have had to stop my meds before tests next week. Any way to find relief is good though!
My husband had this and ended being his thyroid. autoimmune causing swelling