Globus and me !

Ears, nose and throat
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A few months ago i'd nver heard of this horrible condition.

I developed it mid January this year after approx 6 months of anxiety and then an emotional shock.

I am stuck with a feeling of something like mucous at the base of my throat that no matter how many times i swallow wont go away.

The only real respite i et is when eating or drinking.

​I am addressig the issue of anxiety with Sertraline and had an appointment with ENT to look down my throat via my nose.

He discovered i ad acid reflux which i assume is silent as i didn't experience a burning sensation.

He prescribed Pantoprazole to reduce acid.

Symptoms no better 6 weeks later.

​Just had a follow up with ENT and he has reiterated that i need to treat the root cause ( anxiety ) , he sais he's gonig to look down my oesophagus under a GA, i guess to reassure me further.There is a 3-4 month waiting list so i'm trying not to stress,lol

​I have found it helpful reading about other peoples Globus and hope that i in turn can help other people.

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You have a long road ahead of you, but I've learned the tricks to win!

Let me explain, or tell you what it is. How to treat it.

It's caused by the foods you eat. Think of you being a gas tank, it can only hold a certain amount of toxins and then go crazy.

Sugar and carbohydrates you need to stop! Yes, you can have something one day and nothing, the next you are having symptoms. This is going to sound stupid and crazy. But let's say you can consume a hamburger, soda, ice cream. Lots of toxins there! But now at night you grab an ice tea with sugar, bam your throat feels like you can't swallow/ something stuck/ lump in the throat. Then you panic and it gets even worse!

Food gives panic attacks/ anxiety. Sugar/ carbohydrates/ fruits are very dangerous! Pure sugar. Sugar is sugar.....

CURE!

Here is the cure, you need to stop anxiety and the symptoms from the future. No sugar!

Acid reflux/ gerd/ heartburn fix.

Take a tablespoon of unrefined pure honey when you crawl into bed! Not before dinner/ after dinner. As you climb into bed for the night. It will heal your throat. Honey needs to be bought directly from a beekeeper. Look for a farmer's market or food festival near you.

Bad bacteria fix. Fixing you gut and detoxing.

Unrefined coconut oil, tablespoon before you eat in the morning and night. This will get the good bacteria and bad bacteria back to normal.

Room temperature glass of water right when you wakeup, with only a fresh squeezed lemon in it. (Big lemon half/ small you can squeeze it all)

This will get your ph back to normal. If it tastes like sugar you are healthy ph, if it's sour than the lemon will fix it. Every morning, right when you wake-up!

Cut down on food, skip a day helps, lots of water too. Only one or two small meals a day. We overeat and that's what keeps us sick! Our bodies have no time to heal within, too busy with digestion. We can live months without food, but only days without water!!! 5-7 meals a day so they say keeps you sick! Plus makes you buy toxic protein bars and shakes.

You will feel results in 3 to 4 days. Lose weight even. Energy, depression, anxiety will decrease. Your body is healing!

So fresh lemons, virgin unrefined coconut oil, and natural honey. Three of the most drugs in the world. Sun and water are number 1! That's why they add toxins such as flouride to the water, and tell you to wear sunglasses/ sunscreen to keep you away from being healthy. Sun does not give you skin cancer, sunscreen does! Poor countries that can't afford sun block have no skin cancer! Flouride is a huge toxin, look at a toothpaste warning!

Anyway, this will cure heartburn, anxiety, panic attacks, and closing off of your throat.

Or you can take meds, keep eating carbohydrates/ sugars and end up in the ER when you can't swallow your own spit! (I've been there twice for that! CT scans and all) Imagine feeling like something went down the wrong pipe, and or stuck feeling for 3 - 7 hours straight!

Hope this helped you! It saved my life!

PS. Coconut oil might make you poop. Cut back to a teaspoon and work your way up if needed.

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If you say to cut out all sugar, then how does honey fit in??

I bought some raw honey & it's so sweet, it's revolting to eat a tablespoon of it. No beekeepers where I live, I got it from a health food store.

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You would be surprised of beekeepers in your area! Store bought honey is not real honey! Don't be fooled. Needs to be raw unfiltered, unpasteurized! From a bee keeper!

True, sugar is a sugar. No question there.

However, raw honey has so many amazing properties! Bears use it to heal themselves from cuts and sickness! Winnie the pooh!

One of the most powerful drugs on the market except water. It will heal Gerd/ acid reflux in just 3 or 4 applications! Store bought is 100% pure man-made sugar! There is honey called Manuka that's curing everything! They are already altering and making fake for the customer. Let's see $15 honey that lasts 3 months and heals permanent in days. Or Nexium for hundreds of dollars a month and never heals! Nexium was 80my, then 40mg, now it's 20mg. (22)

Heartburn is from being dehydrated! Lack of fluoride free water. Why do you think medicine says take with a glass of water! It's the water that makes you feel better, not the placebo/ oops drug.... When you are sick, you go to the hospital. They give you what? IV.... water! In 20 minutes you start feeling better while waiting three hours for the doctor. You just want to go home after water.

Cancer is being dehydrated and ph unbalanced! Anywho....

Yes honey is sugar, but a tablespoon every night will not hurt you. But heal your body and throat! But must be raw not store bought. You can even order it from beekeepers. The flower that the bee users makes the type of honey which has even more healing powers! I got rid of GERD of almost having 10 years in 3 nights! Using honey. And yes I bought store honey first and it did nothing.

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By saying honey is revolting your not using real honey or your ph level is very toxic! A lemon should taste sweet, your ph level is good.

Yet people drink couch syrup that's wicked, smoke, drink beer, etc. And think those taste good. You are very toxic, and your body is giving you all the warning signs. So go ahead, pop a tums/ rolled and keep going. You'll be on the list for having CT scans, tybes/ cameras down your throat, and drugs.

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Well maybe the honey I bought is just not raw and loaded with extra sugar!!

It tells me that it is organic raw honey, but I did Google Beekeepers in my area and as it turns out there's 2 of them. So I have sent one an email & got their numbers (because its early in the morning & too early to call yet)

You're final paragraph assumes that I do all the things you have listed & you assume that I am a candidate for all that you have mentioned - most of which I have had done in the past year and are all clear (by the way, I dont know what 'pop a tums/rolled' is, I am from Australia and we dont use that term here). Were you doing these things before you got rid of GERD?, which by the way my ENT tells me I do not have, I have Globus Sensation, not reflux - I have had an Endoscopy, a Laryngoscopy, a sleep study, I took a course of medication for reflux, stuff for post nasal drip & Gaviscon for 8 weeks, everything else went except the lump sensation. He told me that it could only be 3 things.

GERD, which is wasnt because the medication would have cleared it up, Cancer, which was ruled out, or GS - which I have.

So, all I am left with is to eat clean & look after myself as best as I can and try what you have listed, because I have done everything else medically possible.  

Can you tell me where you found your information?

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Pop a Tums or Rolaid! Just like Gaviscon.

Unfortunately, gerd doesn't clear up with meds. Just helps with the symptoms.

Gerd can form with post nasal drip too. It's just a more severe case of acid reflux. Globus is what you eat and anxiety.

Where did I find my info. Hmmm, wow.

I started this when I was 25, and now 41.

Went to see every doctor, every med, x-rays, mri, CT scan, tubes down my throat, two trips to the ER! And said, nobody knows and says it's nothing! Yet I can't swallow my own saliva at times. So I started my own research for years! And finally found what helps, but what cures it! Over eating, sugars/ carbohydrates, dehydration is the basic. I needed a plan. Stop these feelings. (Change diet/ quantity of food) and then how to get rid of what I have naturally. Water, lemon, honey, coconut. Coconut I use for moisturizer, cooking, hair/ scalp, toxin pulling, Amazing stuff.... lemon I do every morning. Only drink flouride free water and more than usual. Honey at night, I rarely use it anymore because it healed me. Everything is natural and cheap.

Now I cheat, but I skip a day of eating once a week. Two small meals a day. No coffee/ just always water. My favorite old foods don't taste as good as they use too. And sometimes as I'm cheating, it makes sick as I'm eating eat. (Bathroom)

I had a sharp pain on my left side, brought me to my knees. Went to a doctor who was retired but working a few hours. I had diverticulitis! He said I have two choices, 1. Go to the ER and have surgery to remove part of your intestine because you are really bad or 2. Drink a gallon of water for 4 days and it will be gone. So I picked 2.... and it was gone on the third day. Diverticulitis is being dehydrated! That's when I realized doctors aren't there to help, but get you on drugs. So it was up to me to start researching......

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thanks for the replies Helper1

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Just reading and re reading, I am so happy you have said all these things.  Just a few questions, I can't seem to get it myself.  Up until this started, which I have no idea what brought it on about 3 weeks ago, and even until last Tuesday when the Dr (ENT) gave me augmentin and some PPI stuff, but anyway, never had a problem with spicy foods, nothing.  Anyway, please tell me will I be able to ever eat my favorite foods again?  I make everything ok, I mean we use ground turkey for pretty much everything we eat.  I eat healthy, just I love hot sauce, peppers, garlic, you name it.  But, anyway, I haven't tried any of that, I have had salad, which doesn't help either way.  But, again, I was wondering, if I do all you say, will I be able to start that again?  Its all healthy, even my fruits and all, but I haven't tried spicy.  I do however, have so much stress and anxiety and panic over this, and in general as it is, I have to take extra anxitey meds to calm myself down from thinking of it, day and night.  Please help if you do read this.  I just want this feeling to go away.  Im leaving on Monday for a 10 day trip and just want it gone.  

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Hi, have you tried anything that helper1 said?  I tried the honey last night and actually went away for the night.  Although, I just finished the room temp water and with lemon and I just took the tablespoon of the coconut oil before 2 pieces of flax toast.  Not sure, but my stomach seems to not like the lemon.  Anyway, please let me know if you have had any success.  Thanks

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Hi Jacqui,

​ i have tried umpteen things, on ppi off ppi, honey, silicol gel, gaviscon to name but a few,i have anxiety which i feel is the cause of my problems.

On lansoprazole at the moment and having some success, i'm more relaxed about the globus and that has improved a lot.

I wouldn't think lemon would be good as it is acidic.

​I think it's a case of trial/error and treating the anxiety alongside the physical symptoms.

Hope you enjoy your trip

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What is lansoprazole?  I am in the middle of an antibiotic right now, since last Tuesday night first dose.  Its odd though, its gets worse all day.  And now today, I am so sore everywhere.  I think that anxiety and stress over all this is killing me in all.  Well, I am going to keep trying, and praying.  Keep me posted, maybe the stress and anxiety I have will go a little down while I am away.  sad  Hopefully I won't worry more as I am away.  Thank you for replying to me.  

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Yes hopefuly your stress and anxiety level will go down whilst you are away.

​The mind is very strong, one day i was having a bad reflux day, went to a party in the evening, ate loads , drank wine and guess what, no symptoms.

​Lansoprazole is a PPI, easier on the stomach than Pantoprazole apparently.What symptoms do you have Jacqui ?

I am on sertraline and anti deppresant for my anxiety and have just started an online course to learn CBT

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#I am and have been stressed since January 2016, so 6 months or so and its been everything bad since then.  I wasn't having heartburn or anything symptoms at all until about 3 weeks ago.  I kept feeling a lump in my throat and it felt like I had to spit.  I couldn't spit there was nothing there, I thought maybe allergies, on which I already take Zyrtec for daily.  So I tried the usual allergie meds and sinus meds (maybe it was dripping down my throat).  Nothing there worked.  So I tried Musinex, its a mucas thinner, maybe it would help me spit it up?  Nope, so then onto the fact that I have been running a mild temp of 100 all this time.  Anyway, still the lump sensation was there.  It has been affecting me mentally so besides the regular daily 100% stress that I have, and the fact that I have bad anxiety problems and bipolar as it is, doesn't help this 1 bit.  I finally went to the Dr now 2 weeks ago today and he did nothing but say get a catscan in which it all looked good except I have a lot of scattered bi latteral lymph nodes in my throat.  I didn't find out the results until a week ago saturday, and they didnt' tell me, I went onto my dr's chart that I have to see all my health stuff and read them.  So now, being as my normal stress and anxiety are at an all time high, I made them even worse as I went online and looked up all the sypmtoms that I had at that point and freaked until Monday when the dr was open.  I must say, I have really crappy drs, I called in the am to get the results and they said they would call back to which they did not by 2pm.  I was freaking out, printed out the results, walked into the Drs office with them in my hand, tears in my eyes and said exactly to them?  I called was upset no one called and you all know about my mental health problems, why make an already panicked person wait? The receptionist in the back said oh, you must be Jacquelyn?  Um yes!  She said oh she didn't call you yet?  No, so she took the papers, went out back, came back with a business card and sent me to the ENT, not even the DR to talk to me, or the nurse!  UGH  Anyway, I left crying driving to the ENT office, they calmed me down enough to make appoointment for next day, DR there scoped up my nose and down my throat and found nothing!  Nothing!  So he said here, take these 2 medications, 1 is Augmentin 875mg tabs (2 a day) and the other is the Pantoprazole Sodium 40mg tabs (1 a day).  Anyway, I don't think my stomach handled the PPI because I thought I was going to die the night I took it.  I had extreme pain everywhere in my GI track, up in my throat and all.  I have had ulcers before because of to much stress and Ibprofen and this is probably what caused all this in the beginning, but anyway, I almost went to the ER because I was in that much pain, my stomach I thought was going to explode.  So the Dr told me to take the antibiotic for now and see what happends.  Well, now I have 4 more days and lately I wake up with pains in my lower back and upper back in the night time.  And I have burning like I have an ulcer and I have tried so many different antacids and none have worked.  All I want to do is cry, I woke up crying and was making my son his toast crying and now I am starting again.  So I have a lump in my throat that I can't swallow, a low temp of usually 100 degrees or so and whatseems like heartburn that was never bothered before.  And well now the pains in my back like either its all going to break or I am.  sad  I will write more from the plane or when I arrive at the destination where I really don't want to be as it is, so that is more anxiety and stress.  

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Hi Jacqui, i' so sorry you feel so stressed and anxious, doctors dont always help with their attitude, although i have to say my gp is good.

My symptoms started with a lump in the throat feeling, rather like mucous that wouldn't come up. It developed after a period of being anxious about my health. I had a camera up my nose with an ent consultant, he told me i had acid reflux although i didn't experience heartburn.

After taking the panto my stomach problem developed and i put it down to the panto so asked for it to be changed. The consultant refused and did another scope down my throat under a GA. Again he reiterated that there was acid reflux and to keep on taking the panto.

​After trying various things i came off the panto and am on the lansoprazole at the moment, this seems to be working better on my stomach and my globus has been improving for a while now.

I believe this condition will get better but will no doubt flare up again, i will continue with the lanso for now and work on my anxiety.

With globus the best thing to do apparently is to forget about it, not easy when you feel someone is stood on your throat.

With ppi's you need to take them for a number of months, although for some people they work quicker.

I find chewing whitening gum helps the globus, as does drinking water, i have also tried breathing excercises and visualising the lump going.

Please do try to enjoy your trip, the more you relax the better.

When you get make make a plan

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That is exactly what happened with my stomach.  No heartburn or feelings in my stomach until I took that PPI and I know its acid reflux now to.  I had a problem with the back of my knees and my knees and was taking a lot of Ibprofen and I knew I shouldn't have because it would cause an ulcer to form again.  And yet did it.  But, I didnt' think this stuff would get stuck in the back of my throat.  Never had that before and its terrible.  Funny, all the way to the airport nothing, all the way up until we were about to get on the plane, in the jetbridge as I was getting upset with my son did it happen.  Nothing at all until then.  Even after I ate a part of a sub, nothing.  But, the minute that I started to had got upset iwth him it started all over again and now is here.  I am on the plane now and its bothering me a little.  Water doesn't help me much.  And I used to drink close to a gallon a day sad   I haven't been able to see my therapist for awhile now, well 2 weeks and then before that it was about 3 weeks and so feelings that I couldn't express or have her help me express or explain to me I guess backed up.  I was on a really good routine exercising and everything 15 pounds in about 6 weeks or so!  All the way until this happened with my throat, I haven't really been back to the gym.  Its weird though because like I said I have the slight tempature of 100 or so about 75-85% of the time?  I alst stress a lot because I left Massachusettes to come to Florida to get away from stress up there and its ten times worse down here.  Plus, I took my son out of a great school and although this school is supposed to be great he is having trouble in it.  So that is upsetting, and his dad had cancer and I took him out of Dana Farber hospital care for one down here and ALL these Dr's are stupid!  They haven't a clue and its a cancer hospital.  They are all snotty or rude, most the nurses are too.  I really wish I could figure a way to move back and all, but it all seems impossible right now.  I will maybe try and figure out another type of acid reducer that may work.  I just am so upset that I took us all from the best doctors in the world to totaly crappy ones that only want money and not to help.  Even the eye dr is bad.  Sorry for the long sob story, just it seems to help a little knowing that some people out here also have the same problems as well as mostly everyone here has anxiety to go with it.  So it seems I am not so crazy.  I am going to try and relax as much as I can, but I have a very hyper, non attentive and defient 8 year old.  Yikes.  And his grandparents make it worse.  Yikes.  Really though, Thank you for talking to me.  This is nice

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Hello Jacqui, hope you are enjoying your trip.

My globus gets worse when i'm anxious too, very common

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I haven't been feeling all that well since I've been here feeling seems to stay in my throat and now my right ear has been hurting. I am still on the Augmentin so I don't understand how my ear could be hurting as well as my temperature still stays around 100.2 Nothing seems to make sense

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sorry to hear this Jacqui, what is augmentin ?

​pm me if you want to chat in private, i'm here

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Augmentin is a strong antibiotic. How do I PM?