I have had what I call throat spasms for all of my life. I am 34 years old and have never been able to figure out a name for it or anything until now. This is such an immense relief to me because I had never heard of anyone else having them. My question is, does anyone else have the issue of not being able to sleep? For some reason, I cannot close my eyes for an extended period of time or else it causes more spasms. I live on caffeine pills when these occur because I would rather be exhausted than to have to deal with the pain that these cause me. I like to think that I have a high pain tolerance, but with these, my tolerance is not high at all. I have found that the only place I am able to get some sleep is in the shower with the water turned up really hot to where there is a lot of steam in the air. I've never been able to connect the dots between my eyes and my throat. I would really like to shed some light on what I have been dealing with for so long.
Are your spasms painful, like chest pain mimicking that of a heart attack? If so, they're called esophageal spasms. I've had them for 15 years and mine is a crushing midsternsl pressure that a severe ache and hurting radiates to my jaw. The best thing for them that I've found are nitroglycerin tablets sublingual. They give you a BAD headache for about 5 min but will stop the spasm.
Drop me a prvt msg if you have any questions.
DJRN
The spasms are extremely painful. I have had several episodes of kidney stones and they feel so much better. The only pain that I have when I get them are deep In my throat. I do not have any pain in my chest or anywhere else. They only happen when I'm sleeping and they wake me up. I can try to go back K to sleep but t the longer I close my eyes, the more inte
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The spasms are extremely painful. I have had several episodes of kidney stones and they feel so much better. The only pain that I have when I get them are deep In my throat. I do not have any pain in my chest or anywhere else. They only happen when I'm sleeping and they wake me up. I can try to go back to sleep but t the longer I close my eyes, the more intense the spasms become until I can no longer handle the pain anymore. The only place I have found that I can get some sleep is in the shower with really hot water that causes steam to be in the air. I have no clue what these could be and I need help! I had a swallow test about 2 months ago and a sleep study. I had to cut the sleep study short because of the spasms so my ENT wants me to have another one done.
Hun I don't know what they are if they're not esophageal spasms. If they are nitroglycerin helps
I'm not sure either. It's so frustrating trying to explain to people what they are and how they feel. I am hoping that the swallow test will show something!
I hope it will. At least it will rule some things out if anything.
DJ