Has anyone ever experienced this as a symptom of anxiety? I've been dealing with anxiety/panic disorder for about two years now. It was really bad at first with almost daily panic attacks, sometimes coming in waves for hours at a time. It then evolved into what I guess would be health anxiety, where every feeling in my body started to signify that something was horribly/fatally wrong with me. I've made a lot of progress with this up until a couple of months ago when all of a sudden my tongue felt swollen and sore. Didn't really think anything of it at first, but it never went away. 24 hours a day for two months now it's been bothering me. It's very frustrating because it feels like it's swelling and possibly going to obstruct the airway and it wreaks havoc on my anxiety. My PCP saw nothing wrong, neither did the ENT. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this as an anxiety symptom, and how the hell to get past it?
No lo he tenido (al menos por ahora) pero sé que es un síntoma de ansiedad. Te enviaré un enlace y lo verás!
Thanks for the link. I've never seen that listed as a possible anxiety symptom before. It's definitely one of the stranger ones I've experienced!
¡Sí, la ansiedad puede ser realmente difícil! ¡No hay problema!
Sí. Tengo 1 de tres cosas.
1) mi garganta parece que se está cerrando
2) mi lengua parece que se está hinchando
3) mi úvula (o lo que sea esa cosa colgante en la parte posterior de mi garganta) parece que se está hinchando
Anoche tuve el número 3. Se sentía extremadamente grande y como si estuviera bloqueando mi garganta. Tuve que beber agua, lo que empeoró las cosas, así que comí algunas papas fritas, lo que también empeoró las cosas (pero era como a las 3 a.m. y esa era la única comida cerca de mí lol), así que finalmente hice lo que siempre hago cuando tengo alguno de esos sentimientos.
Tomé una foto (bueno, más bien 20 para conseguir un buen ángulo lol) de mi garganta. Solo para asegurarme de que todo estaba del tamaño normal. Y lo estaba. Todavía se sentía incómodo, pero al menos supe que estaba bien.
Normalmente, si estoy despierto y activo, iré a un espejo y alumbraré con la linterna de mi teléfono en mi boca y me aseguraré de que mi garganta esté abierta, mi úvula sea del tamaño normal y mi lengua sea del tamaño normal.
Hola, yo también sufro de trastorno de pánico y ansiedad. Envíame realmente el mensaje de los síntomas, por favor.
Hi there I bit my tongue a few days ago and have been having minimal pain on that side and woke up with it hurting. I went in to the bathroom to look at it and the under part of my tongue is swollen there and every time I swallow there is tension and it's hard to swallow directly under my jaw in my neck where the soreness is in my tongue. It's also important to note that I have had a very bad cold but am at the tail end of it. I am very aware of my body due to my health related anxiety so know that my tongue looks very different underneath. I also felt it and it feels like thick and swollen. I have tried heat, salt water, tea, gum, ice, etc and it's freaking me out Have you or anyone on this forum experienced anything like this before? I am so scared
hello, i know this post was written 4 years ago but i am really struggling with that exact feeling right now and driving myself up the walls with this feeling that there is something wrong with me, however after seeing your message its helped me so much in realising that im not just alone and to calm down all this anxiety inside. so thank you
I know this was posted a long time ago, and I certainly hope you are better by now ;)… I just wanted to mention that I suffer terribly with a similar issue, to the point it is sometimes absolutely debilitating and seems to have an awful, roller-coaster effect on my anxiety/OCD/physical pain. Just knowing someone else had an issue similar to mine is oddly comforting, though I certainly hope your story had a happy outcome! I think my pain/obsessing and being anxious about the pain is tied to hormones and anxiety brought on by hormonal changes. My first episode of bizarre “tongue anxiety” started in the last trimester of my pregnancy with my son, and this second one started after menopause & thyroid cancer… I don’t know if anyone else has had this, but some days it’s so bad I’m sure I am salivating more than usual, as a reaction to whatever nerves are being irritated in my mouth. It is awful, managing this issue; sorry for ranting about it. Be well everyone - rachelvioletta
hi there!! do you still have this issue ?? it s happening to me as well. thank you
I get a similar feeling of my throat being tight constantly, and just a couple minutes ago I had a short panic attack where it felt like my tongue was swelling up. It’s the middle of the night so it was hard to tell if it actually was or not, which just added to my panic.
Anyway, I didn’t know what to do, so I turned to Google and ended up here.
It’s reassuring that I’m not the only person to experience this and honestly I think knowing that is what stopped my panic attack just now.
Thank you to OP for posting about it and to everyone who commented 
i am currently strugglinng with this did yiu ever get an answer?
Hola, siento lo mismo. Es como si mi lengua tocara mi úvula. ¿Se te fue? ¿Te sientes mejor ahora? He tenido la lengua hinchada desde hace tres meses. Sí se ve hinchada, pero también lo siento. Muchas gracias.