For this reason, the UES is constantly contracting to prevent air flow and stomach acids from reaching the esophagus. This results in notable spasms. These types of spasms may be alleviated with simple home remedies. Changes to your eating habits are perhaps the most promising solution.
By eating and drinking small amounts throughout the day, your UES may be in a more relaxed state for longer. This is compared with eating a couple of large meals throughout the day. Drinking an occasional glass of warm water may have similar effects. Breathing techniques , guided meditation, and other relaxing activities may help. For persistent spasms, your doctor may prescribe diazepam Valium or another type of muscle relaxant.
Valium is used to treat anxiety, but it may also be helpful in calming stress related to throat spasms when taken temporarily. Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, may also alleviate symptoms. In addition to home remedies and medications, your doctor may refer you to a physical therapist. They can help you learn neck exercises to relax hypercontractions. According to Laryngopedia, the symptoms of cricopharyngeal spasm tend to resolve on their own after around three weeks.
In some cases, symptoms can last longer. Complications from esophageal spasms are rare, according to the Cleveland Clinic. If you experience other symptoms, such as swallowing difficulties or chest pain, you might have an associated condition.
Possibilities include:. It can cause some throat discomfort during periods when your esophagus is in a relaxed state, such as between meals. However, persistent discomfort from these spasms may need to be addressed by a doctor.
Serious complications are rare, but it is very important that you make us aware if any of the following problems listed below occur. The indications and risks of surgery, as well as expected outcomes, must be understood prior to proceeding with your surgery. In addition, you must understand your alternatives to the surgery. Your alternative is not to have the surgery performed, and continue with medical management of your problem.
This would leave you in your current condition. If you have other neurological problems, or problems with your esophagus beyond the cricopharyngeal muscle , treating the CP spasm may only help to open the pharynx. However, the other problems may be significant enough to cause persistent difficulties with swallowing. It is for this reason that not all patients with CP spasm are candidates for this surgery. If your doctor has scheduled you for surgery, we feel that you have a very good chance of improvement in your swallowing function.
Please also be aware that in performing this surgery, we are not restoring the cricopharyngeal muscle back to normal function. We are dividing the fibers so that they are no longer able to squeeze the upper throat closed. Instead, we change the function of the throat so that gravity allows passage of food, liquids and saliva into the esophagus.
There, it is then rhythmically pushed down into the stomach. Our expectations are that your swallowing function will be significantly improved with this surgery, but potentially not normal. If, for various reasons, the surgery does not allow you to swallow adequately to maintain your fluid and caloric needs, you may need a permanent feeding tube.
As an alternative option to the surgery, if your swallowing is bad enough that you cannot maintain adequate nutrition, placement of a feeding tube is also a viable option. BLEEDING — Minor bleeding either through the mouth or from the incision is typically not a problem; however heavy bleeding deeper in the neck can be very serious and can potentially cause difficulty with breathing. If not addressed in a timely fashion, it can possibly cause suffocation. Therefore, if excessive bleeding is noted, if you have sudden difficulty breathing, or if there is rapid expansion of your wound, call immediately.
However, since the surgery sometimes requires opening into the throat, there can be contamination of the bacteria from the throat into the clean environment of the neck. If the opening is performed at the time of the surgery such as excision of a large sac , this will be managed with surgical closure of the defect.
Typically then, the patient will then need a temporary feeding tube placed through the nose which goes into the stomach, and an extended hospital stay about a week. Started as pressure in the neck. I also get pressure in my ears. Now I will feel an almost flutter right at my adams apple. It definitely builds throughout the day, the more ido, the earlier it sets in. Like others here, I also have general anxiety, so this does not help. I have no answers for anyone, but it is somewhat a relief to have an idea what it might be.
I seem to have developed the same issues as many of these symptoms. I felt thick phlegm trickling down my throat and a lump in my throat. Nothing found by the ENT or ultrasound. I seem to have managed most issues with physio therapy.
Ever since it started I noticed that when I stretch out my neck muscles — the right side of my neck — the neck band is protruding on the affected side. Which is strange. But it tends to go away after a while. I have suffered with chronic migraine for over 20 years. But no longer get those — thanks to Botox treatments. Hey there! I have been experiencing extreme pain that seems to be worsening for the last years now, Im only 24 and dont have any medical issues. It seems I have experiencing what most people are above.
For me specifically, it feels like the pain travels, I feel it in my lower back and my abdomen area sometimes too. I am not sure if the pain makes me feel it in other places or what. This pain is constant and continues to get worse, it feels debilitating and I can even enjoy anything anymore. It makes me want to sit in bed all day and it has now made me depressed because of the constant feeling of pain.
If anyone has any advice on what to do please reach out to me. Agnes, You may want to review the 2 videos on Laryngospasm in case it describes what you are experiencing. Hello my name is Stevan. I also had a lump in my throat since then and no doctors been helping me with the lump. The GI did an endoscopy 2 months later smh and said I got diverticulum of esophagus and stomach ulcers and prescribed me protonix.
Mind u I went to a unity hospital Jan 14th and explained the same symptoms and they prescribed me the same thing. Pray for me guys please. I make music and I just want to be back normal so I can feed my family and help my friends in my hood. I really hope you are still monitoring this site for questions and comments. I came across this site trying to figure out what is happening to me. The above listed sensations are very similar but diverge in intensity.
The pain is SO intense that it leaves me gasping for breath which exasperates the sensation. The only thing I can do to help alleviate the pain is to swallow liquid. The spasms vary in duration of time and then I am left with a dull ache for a while longer. I have been diagnosed with thyroid tumors and GERD. I do not have all the medical jargon for all of this. Is there anything I can ask my Dr. My spasm started when I had an accident and broke my arm. I worried about having to go to hospital for an operation and three days later got the neck spasm.
It feels like a deep swallow that i am not responsible for. It always happens when I am relaxing to go to sleep.
It does not allow me to sleep. The only thing that has help are sleeping tablets. Does anyone else have this. I went to my family doctor several months ago, with feeling of an elephant on my chest. I went to the cardiologist and had heart cat but no blockages. He said go the gastro and I have and had upper and lower GI and tube run down my esophagus.
Afterward he said I had a hiatel hernia, and scarring of the esophaguas. I too have had GERD constant belching and the need to constantly belch. My family doc put me on Dexilent; it worked wonders on the GERD and several years later switched me to propantazol misspelled. My followup with the gastro is this week.
This comes after a year of recovering from breaking my back, giving in from active to sedentary lifestyle, and with this throat and pressure business I can barely walk across the room without shortness of breath. The cricophargeal spasm description comes closest to how I feel. I wnat an answer and I want relief and I want my life back.
My husband and I watched your video on this and laughed out loud because it sounded like it was made for me. Only asking because I usually get temporary relief after a cocktail. My doctor wants me to take a tricyclic antidepressant, but the side-effects have been intolerable so far. Any chance you can tell me what prescriptions have been successfully used in the past? I started experiencing acid reflex 3 years ago and a year later a constant cricopharyngeal spasms and more recently pain in nasopharyngeal area.
After seeing a functional doctor he ran a mycotoxin test that came back positive for 3 types of toxins after I told him I lived in a water damaged building for 6 years. I saw many doctors and some suggested my symptoms were all in my head. I have this feeling of an obstruction in my throat and feel as though I have excess phlegm and have to keep making short coughs, but more worryingly there are times when all of a sudden I cannot breathe, literally cannot catch a breath.
I have watched your video on Laryngosoasm and this seems to be what is happening. Is it possible to have both conditions? I have watched your video on Laryngospasm and this seems to be what is happening. Your email address will not be published. Schedule a video conversation Read our patient reviews Now accepting Laryngology Fellowships!
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