Red Maple Senior Veteran (female)

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 608

Re: Clogged Up Throat Pam, so glad you are receiving the treatment you need!!! Hopefully the ear drainage will help you and the discomfort will go away. An endoscopy will also help to determine if it could be related to acid reflux. The acid reflux board on this web site has been very helpful to me and is also a great resource of information.



I was diagnosed with LPR, due to a feeling of a lump in throat a little over two years ago. Sometimes it feels like my throat is coated with "peach fuzz", it is a very uncomfortable feeling. Most of the time it feels like there is a "tic tac" and sometimes a "golf ball" stuck in the back of my throat. The normal treatment for LPR is 2x a day of Nexium or another acid reducing drug. I took the nexium faithfully for over a year with little relief. I stopped taking the nexium because I was having some side effects about a year ago. Fortunately the throat discomfort has been slowly diminishing all by itself for about the past 6 months and now is almost completely gone.



I sometimes still wonder if it is not related to hormonal changes, as fluctuation in hormones can cause digestive problems, and thus causing the reflux. I guess I'll never know what it really is, I'm just glad it seems to be going away!



Best of luck with your treatment and keep me posted to your progress! Last edited by Red Maple; 07-20-2006 at 09:19 AM .