Pain at Adam's Apple when swallowing. Seeking advice. :(
While Johniie's advice may be well intentioned, it is flawed. You will, eventually, need to swallow something.Johnnie wrote:Don't swallow.
The best way to take your mind off a pain is to experience a greater pain which renders the original one insignificant.
When, after a couple of days of hunger and/or dehydration, the time comes to swallow something, simply stab yourself in the fleshy part of the thigh with a large knife. While reeling from this pain, quickly swallow enough liquid and sustenance to get you through to the next stabbing.
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I am not going to make any diagnoses over the web, and any comments I am about to make are in now way meant to substitute for going to a physician who can actually see you and examine you.
Anatomy lesson: the thyroid gland is at the base of the neck. The two thick cords running from the mastoid process to the top of your sternum are called the stenoclavicular mastoid muscles. Just above the vertex of the SCMs is where you will find the thyroid. You probably will have difficulty feeling it. The adam's apple or thyroid cartilage is several cm above the thyroid gland. Goiters or thyroiditis would be very unlikely to effect the thyroid cartilage. Long story but the embryological development of the thyroid involves the tissue of the to be thyroid moving from behind the tongue to the base of the anterior neck. In some people they have a patent thyroglossal duct. This thyroglossal duct is the embryological remnants of the thyroid's passage. Some people have thyroglossal duct cysts. These can be painful.
You should go to a physician. Depending on his or her's exam you may be referred to an ENT specialist or you may be sent for an imaging study (s).
Anatomy lesson: the thyroid gland is at the base of the neck. The two thick cords running from the mastoid process to the top of your sternum are called the stenoclavicular mastoid muscles. Just above the vertex of the SCMs is where you will find the thyroid. You probably will have difficulty feeling it. The adam's apple or thyroid cartilage is several cm above the thyroid gland. Goiters or thyroiditis would be very unlikely to effect the thyroid cartilage. Long story but the embryological development of the thyroid involves the tissue of the to be thyroid moving from behind the tongue to the base of the anterior neck. In some people they have a patent thyroglossal duct. This thyroglossal duct is the embryological remnants of the thyroid's passage. Some people have thyroglossal duct cysts. These can be painful.
You should go to a physician. Depending on his or her's exam you may be referred to an ENT specialist or you may be sent for an imaging study (s).
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Sorry it's taken so long for me to get back here. It's been a very busy week at work. I did end up going to the Doc on Wednesday morning. She was unable to determine my illness, unfortunately. She did a strep test that came back negative...I was a bit bummed by that. I rather like knowing I have strep and get a shot for it. Quick, easy, done. But when it's not strep then it's usually some sort of long-lasting viral infection. She said my pharynx was quite irritated just as the back of my throat was.
So now I am taking some Azithromycin antibiotics. Either it's doing the trick against a bacterial infection or my body is killing off a virus infection on its own. My throat doesn't hurt as much today and I am getting better for sure. Finally! I don't want to go through that again, it was extremely painful.
I appreciate all the fun, funny, and informative replies in this thread! I'm sorry I don't have the energy tonight to reply with witty remarks. I just got home a little while ago from work.
Sorry it's taken so long for me to get back here. It's been a very busy week at work. I did end up going to the Doc on Wednesday morning. She was unable to determine my illness, unfortunately. She did a strep test that came back negative...I was a bit bummed by that. I rather like knowing I have strep and get a shot for it. Quick, easy, done. But when it's not strep then it's usually some sort of long-lasting viral infection. She said my pharynx was quite irritated just as the back of my throat was.
So now I am taking some Azithromycin antibiotics. Either it's doing the trick against a bacterial infection or my body is killing off a virus infection on its own. My throat doesn't hurt as much today and I am getting better for sure. Finally! I don't want to go through that again, it was extremely painful.
I appreciate all the fun, funny, and informative replies in this thread! I'm sorry I don't have the energy tonight to reply with witty remarks. I just got home a little while ago from work.
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