Hi all,
I've been suffering from anxiety since around February this year. It started with headaches and fatigue and have since suffered pretty much every symptom you can imagine.
I've actually been feeling less anxious recently and have stopped experiencing the typical depersonalisation, light headedness etc.Sadly though I am still suffering from chronic health anxiety.
What I am absolutely terrified by at the moment is the problems with my neck and throat. I've been having pain at the right base of my skull. Sometimes this is accompanied by head pressure. The really scary thing though is that there is a sensation that theres actually a lump inside my head. Sometimes when I turn it it almost feels like something is grating or poking inside, other times when I swallow it feels like there is something in between the back of my throat and back of my neck. It almost feels sharp inside. I am also having intermittent discomfort in throat, particularly my palette, and when it's really bad I feel the need to keep adjusting my throat which makes a clicking sounds and I feel very self conscious as I know other people can hear it. The discomfort also radiates to my ear occasionally.
In addition to the above, I have two raised lymph glands. One half way down the back of my neck and one right at the base of my skull.
I am desperately trying not to worry but it really does feel like there's a lump inside my neck and I can't help worrying it could be an aneurysm waiting to happen or lymphoma or something horrible.
I saw a chiropractor today and he said I do have a tight neck but still can't help thinking something is seriously wrong. The lump feeling is getting worse and the discomfort is getting worse.
Please can anyone relate to this?
Poking at lymph nodes can keep them swollen!!!
Lymph nodes swell due to simple infections too. It could even be a muscle base!!
your clicking sound could be air, or phlegm, or because the adjusting your throat is becoming a habit.
All your tension may be making your throat uncomfy. I have post nasal drip...gacky!! And that can make your throat feel funny.
Try to relax, stop thinking about the worse case scenarios.
My daughter had suspected lymphoma and she had a whole host of symptoms which you have NOT described!! And her node was massive and i mean massive.
I highly doubt you would feel an aneurism
Keep off doc google, make appt woth your gp, call the no panic relaxation number.
Things will get easier.
X
Hi,
I can relate in that I do worry excessively about the slightest thing and sometimes about my health similar to you and I often think the worst about something small and turn it into something big. People often say to me "don't worry" which doesn't help.
Are you taking any medication for your anxiety?
This sounds exactly like me, do you find yourself checking both sides to see if they feel the same etc? I have a benign lymph node about the size of an almond on my jaw line & its agony at the mo, mainly because I keep playing with it because I'm stressed it's something worse despite having a scan on my neck and on the lymph node and them saying it's fine I'm still not convinced! I to have got a really bad dull ache and the base of my skull on the left hand side the same side and the node and I'm convinced I've got something that's spread, it's really hard to control the mind, it's a very powerful place that keeps us worrying big time, it's really hard to forget about things or for people to say don't worry but it's not that easy is it, you can't just not worry that's why we are all on this site because we are worried and we are constantly seeking reassurance! I don't have any advice for you other than don't be afraid to keep going back to your gp as they are the only ones that can give you answers xx
I know this was posted 2yrs ago but this is exactly my feeling right now it's been going on for ages but there's no point in me going to my GP they open my records, see "anxiety" and just fob me off thinking in crazy but it's really stressing me out, I feel like theses a lump in the back of my head (right side) behind my ear to make of neck somethings there's so much pressure I wish I could put a valve in to let it out ha!! I have a shoulder injury that pulls that MAY be the cause but wondering if you got any answers since you posted this x