Hi need some advice plz

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Hi 

i am 43 year old male, dont drink or smoke , quite fit go to gym 3 times a week, but suffer from really bad anxiety.

for around 3 months i have has a sore throat on right side, also right ear felt weird, this would only lass a few hours then i was fine, it would come and go i might not have it for 5 days then it would come back for a few hours then go away again, so i never thought anything of it. but on saturday 24th it came back and its constatly there, so now i think i have throat cancer, i went to doctors yesterday, he checked my throat with his hand s and looked it my mouth and told me everything looked fine. and sent me home, didnt know what it could be.

one think i read online working with metal working fluids may give throat cancer, which i do in my job, this is the bit thats probably kicked my anxiety off.

my symtoms are sore throat on right side slightly feel dry, that sometimes goes up into right ear, the pain feels like a 2 out of 10, my ear feels like when you get water in your ear after shower.

i can swallow ok and it feels ok to eat

i tried paracemtol but didnt make any differance.

i think my anxiety is making problem alot worse because i am constatly thinking about it every second of the day. and cannot sleep thinking about it

i am really panicking about it and think i going to die, cannot cope feels like  i going mad.

Doe throat cancer come on really quick i felt perfectly fine a few days ago, it feels like my throat is getting worse and closing up? this could be anxiety thou?

with my anxiety it seem to enhace the problem and make it alots worse, as i constanty think about it.

any advice

thanks

alan

  • Yes i think after two specialists said to me that they cannot see anything wrong I would be so happy, as cancer is not a nice thing to have, all you can do is keep an eye on any changes in your body or any lumps that appear. It sounds as if you are one of the lucky ones, and long may it continue. Take care,best wishes.

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  • With me the first specialist who looked with a camera down my throat found nothing and only after my voicebox got worse, did a second one find it . He said it is in a difficult place to see that is why the first one missed it. I said the camera should also take a film for me also to see. Maybe that is what you need as well to see for yourself.  If you can swallow (I couldnt) you should be ok. 

  • Hi

    I have 2 ent specialists look down my throat and they said everything looked fine, the pain went away for around 7 hrs yesterday but its come back now.

    I wen to gym and it seemed to make it worse? 

    I am OK swallowing and nothing feels stuck when I eat.

    Thanks