Lump in the throat

This article is an introductory article. If you have any of the disorders listed below, be sure to contact your attending physician and a psychologist! Self-medication can be dangerous and lead to a deterioration in your health.

A lump in the throat or a sensation in the throat of a foreign body without organic causes. According to medical statistics, this feeling men experience three times less often than women. Usually patients express feelings with phrases: "a lump in the throat", "a feeling that the neck has become larger, although visually no changes", "it seems that the clothes press my throat, I feel suffocated." In some cases, it even goes so far that patients are afraid to swallow for fear of choking or die as a result of suffocation.

The syndrome "lump in the throat" is referred to as psychogenic. The reasons are usually psychological. And there can be several.

The feeling of a lump in the throat is more common in people demonstrative and arises from the strongest disappointment. Although sometimes so manifests itself and depression. It is not superfluous to say that depression is classically, with a clearly conscious longing and sadness, not always manifested. There is depression, or its form, when a physical sensation of pain or discomfort in a particular part of the body comes. But a full examination in clinics does not give results and does not reveal the disease in these parts of the body.

With depression in the corporal version (somatized), there are such sensations as a lump in the throat, a heaviness in the chest, down to the pressing one. And in ten cases out of a hundred there is also fear of swallowing. There is such a thing as the conflict of separation is ambivalent. This is often the cause of this kind of depression.

Under the neurosis, psychologists understand an unconscious, inner conflict with a part of itself. And the main reason - ambivalence, when in the human subconscious simultaneously there are two contradictory, opposite feelings (guilt and anger, desire for freedom and irresistible affection, fear and joy). But it is not always enough that you will understand your conflicting feelings. In the treatment of neurosis (any), long-term professional help is needed. And about any standard treatment or overcoming such a state is not worth talking about.

A lump in the throat can become a reaction to a conflict, a break with a partner, a departure from the parents.

And if a person is sensitive, it is extremely difficult for him to defend himself from the opponent's aggression, which means that it is extremely difficult to defend his own vision of the situation and achieve his goal. This may be the very reason for fear, in which there comes a feeling of pressure in the throat, in other words - a nervous spasm.

Such sensations (spasm) can appear after you take food. Typically, patients characterize this condition as a "lump in the throat after eating."

And again about the therapist. It is the specialist who will be able to establish the cause of such sensations. And only with full-time communication.

As a rule, treatment is opening psychotherapy, which helps to understand and understand internal and external conflicts. If the therapist determines that the cause of the feeling of a lump in the throat is a somatization-induced depression, a course of treatment with the use of medications will be additionally assigned.

In addition, similar symptoms can occur in other diseases: inflammation (or dysfunction) of the thyroid gland, osteochondrosis, pharyngitis, and formation of the laryngopharynx.

But the fact that a white lump appeared in the throat, testifies to chronic tonsillitis, which develops after SARS and tonsillitis. In such a lump (or lumps) there is a cluster of dead cells that accumulate on the tonsils. In this case, also need the help of a specialist. If you have tonsillitis chronic, you will need to sanitize (wash out) the tonsils, tablet, injection therapy. It may be necessary to open the tonsils. The doctor will decide.

In any case, you do not even need to put a presumptive diagnosis yourself, and begin treatment - especially. Only the examination will help to establish the cause of your discomfort and choose the right method of treatment.