Chest pain when swallowing

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I have had a constant pain in the mid chest for sometime. It is worse at night and lying on my left side makes it worse. I have a "flutter" heart feeling, but pulse is fine. I have a general swallowing discomfort but not realted to food. To describe it better... it is like the congestion and sick chest feeling with bronchitis, but without coughing. Sometimes there is pain under left arm. Over a year ago, I had a systemic rash that was thought to be a drug reaction.

What feels different between MS swallowing and GERD swallowing?Could I have both? When I was in my thirties I had GERD so bad I had to have my esophagus stretched,and I lost twenty pounds.Now I have swallowing problems and wonder if it is my MS?

I have had the problem of swallowing my food part, and I have had pain in my chest when I do. I also have problems with choking on my food. I have even had problem just swallowing my own saliva, but now that I think about it I have never told my neuro about it. Guess that is something I should write down to mention to him. There are so many symptoms to keep track of and I can't even remember what I had for breakfast much less what has happened to me in the month since my visit to him.

Over the past 6 days, I have had recurring chest pain mostly under my sternum, but sometimes to the left or right as much as 4 inches. When I have the pains, they vary in pain by how deeply i breath. I went to the ER the other night because the chest pain was very bad and lasted for 30-35 minutes. It felt like I was going to have a heart attack. My EKG and blood work at the hospital were all normal.

For the past week i've been having problems swallowing anything, when i swallow it feels like i have a ball stuck in my throat and it hurts all the way down to my chest. The pain is very distracting, it makes me not want to eat. Any idea what i might be?

mid chest hurt when swallowing happen yesterday night maybe its cause by eating so fast

Since then, the pressure is gone but I have had very strong pains when I swallow or even belch. Basically anything that stretches my esophagus causes horrible pain. I am not sure what to do and I can't afford a doctors visit. Does anyone have any advice? My anxiety is really starting to kick in and I am beginning to worry about tumors. How long should I wait before I should really worry?

For the past two weeks, I have been experiencing very frequent belching, not just after meals, along with a pain to the right of my sternum occasionally when I swallow. This pain also is present when I'm not swallowing. Two Sundays ago, I vomited several hours after eating lunch, and have had recurrent nausea since that time. I take Prevacid 30 mg. once daily, but it does not seem to be helping. My gastro.

I don't sleep at night because I have terrible pains in my chest that radiate to my back when I swallow. This only happens at night. Could this be my goiter or GERD? Are these symptoms that can come with a Goiter?

Ever since I had carotid artery surgery four weeks ago, I have pain (similar to ice cream headaches) when I swallow. It seems to originate near my right jaw and ear and radiates from there. Could I have been injured with the incubator tube during surgery, or could it have been caused by the surgery itself? Thanks.

It hurts in that one spot when I swallow a larger size bite of food, when I apply a lot of pressure to my chest to get up a burp sometimes I can feel the pain there. It's a specific spot, not a general area. And I'm certain it's in the esophagus and not the throat, but it is up higher closer to the throat rather than lower into the chest, not in the neck. Of course my biggest fear is a tumor. But wouldn't the barium swallow have showed that?

For a few weeks now I have this click in my throat when I swallow. Not when I am drinking water or eating, but just during normal swallowing. It doesn't click when my head is down or up, but it clicks when I am looking straight. If I put my fingers just above adams apple I can feel a click. Please help me to identify what it could be.

All of the people I talk to whether friends, family, or clients have never heard upper back pain and then pain in back when swallowing. So if any of you have had this or have known someone who had this I would be interested in hearing from you. I went to Urgent Care and they took a Chest X-ray and and EKG and were normal. So it's not my lungs, chest or heart. I think it has something to do with my neck popping and then the pain I already have in my shoulder area all the time.

Oh yes, if you have a hiatal hernia, this can be a cause of chest pain when swallowing. LOL I have one of those as well. So, I am talking to you from experience. I do know that all the anxiety you are going through is not helping your problems any, you are uptight, thus, making your muscles, and your heart is a muscle, uptight and irritable as well. Hope this helps.

Throat or chest pain that occurs every time you swallow is less likely to be related to heart disease and more likely to be related to your esophagus or swallowing mechanism. I suggest that you talk to your doctor and share your concerns.

Basically, every 4-6 days, I'll wake up with chest pains. It feels like something is shooting up my throat and into my chest. Eventually, these pains go away but for the rest of the day, it's very painful to swallow. It even hurts to swallow saliva. Within 24 hours the pain is gone and I feel fine again. The symptoms then repeat themselves again after a few days of them being gone. I'm also belching a lot and spit up lots of phlegm when my throat is hurting.

Last night it wasn't near as bad as it was when I left work (couldn't really feel the weird sensation - almost felt normal by the time I went to bed) and I didn't really wake up this morning with this sensation until I thought about it.

Starting at my adams apple and moving down my my chest . Sometimes the pain spreads right across my chest and I feel like I am being crushed . I cannot swallow food as it will not go down but gets stuck in my throat . So So painful ... I have not eaten for over a weak . I can hardly swallow water . . Feeling very ill also I get hicupps even when I have not eaten . I have no appetite and I havent for over one week . ,. Being to loose a lot of weight .

It's a few days that whenver I swallow liquid (especially cold) and food when the food goes through the esophagus it hurts, like if it was going through a "narrow" section (this is the feeling, at least...). It is located more to the right side of my chest, not exactly in the middle. It is not something unbereable and I don't have ANY other symptom (no acid reflux, no pain of any kind without eating etc ), but definitely it's something new to me! Anything I should be worried about?..

When I had my pvcs really bad they would make me gag so eating was hard because I felt like throwing up but it didn't cause my throat to hurt. I would have chest pain but not throat pain or difficulty swallowing. I might be concerned that you have some acid erosion from acid reflux damaging your esophagus. This is an issue that could trigger pvcs due to the vagus nerve so I would go see your doctor or a gastroenterologist to get your throat checked out.

I have no trouble swallowing, just get this rumbling sound in my chest after the liquid or saliva reach my chest. I am thinking it could be from mucus, i clear my throat alot but i have been doing that pretty much since i started smoking and i never had this problem till now, i have been smoking for eight years. Obviously the more i smoke the more its there and the less i smoke the less its there.

I 'm hard of hearing and for two day I been having chest pain when i eat or drink meaning when I swallowing.

It's unusual for your chest to be tender when you swallow, that suggests pain in your esophagus, the tube leading to your stomach. Acid reflux sometimes causes discomfort there, but isn't associated with head pain, although it's sometimes associated with throat pain.

Now when I woke up it feels like a freaking fork is stuck on the left side of my throat. I can't hardly swallow and when I do it feels like somebody is stabbing me hard on my throat. Worse is the fact that I think it has crept down even further my throat and my chest heavier then it has ever been. I can only tolerate soup and nothing else. I am trying not to talk as much either because that makes it painful also.

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