Sore throat and quitting smoking

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I do notice a weird little dry cough, and a sore-throat, every nowand again.

I just quit smoking (1 or 2 pks per week).

Additionally, I had heard that when you quit smoking it was common for a strong increase in appetite and weight gain. However, since I quit smoking I have completely lost my appetite, and have to force myself to eat when I am border line passing out. Is there any logical reason for this? I appreciate any advice you could give me!

Yesterday I went visiting family and their smokers. I used to smoke but quit nearly a year ago. The cigarette smoke I noticed would get around my face and start burning my throat or making it a little itchy. I was around it for a few hours and couldn't take it anymore and went to a different room. There were also people over for dinner/visiting as well..... We left and started talking to DF's mom and she's a smoker. Along with his dad and brother.. But it was just his mom up last night.

I have noticed every so often I will have a sore throat. It looks raw and unpleasant. Is it common to get sore throats? I thought maybe this was caused by the acid reflux going back into the throat??? Also I am on 5days of doing the prevpac and am wondering how long it takes to heal?

Now I try to limit myself to only smoking 1/2 a pack a day, and that seems to keep the headaches away - but sometimes I wish I could quit for good, I just cant. I also have had that sore throat too. I used to smoke half a pack of menthol cigarettes and at least one pack of regular or light cigarettes a day, but when I tried to stop smoking the menthols, after a few days my throat got terribly raw and hoarse for almost two weeks, before finally getting better.

Hello, My name is Melissa, I am 27 years old and I have been having a soreness in my chest and throat (it feels like a sore throat feels, but in my chest as well) when I breathe in for, oh, about 10 months now. It comes and goes.....when it goes I have this delusion that it's ok to smoke again, and then when I feel the soreness, I get scared and quit....the cycle continues. I have been smoking for 11 years and am having a horrible time quitting, even with this pain.

then she started smoking again in 2001, needless to say after not wanting any, being around her for a couple yrs smoking it reawoke my smoking disease. So, smoked on and off in 2003, quit for 2004. Then she died in 2005 not from smoking at 41. So I felt justified to bury my grief in cigs. since then i have struggled on and off. even stopped for 2.5 months after surgeries and started again each time. Now back to one or 5 a day or none for a few days, but it keeps coming back.

The night before I had smoked a cigarette for the first time since last March, I quit smoking in March of 2006. I have allergy problems and since I had quit smoking, I stopped taking my allergy meds everyday or at all sometimes, cause I just don't need them everyday. Well, it's rained a lot and between that and the cigarette I passed those symptoms off as allergy symtoms. Well a week later, It's sunday now. My throat feels better, It's not scratchy, I do have allergy like symptoms.

Do you show anyother signs besides a sore throat? You may want to see an ear nose and throat specialist. They have the instuments to check your nasal Cavaity and throat. That is the way I would go. So ask your doctor to set you up with your local specialist and lots of stress will go away.

Your first step is to go to your family physician and have him/her check it out, including a strep test for strep throat. Any sore throat lasting a week or more should definitely be checked out. Strep throat is very common (especially in children and young adults) and very treatable, but can lead to serious complications if not treated. So please get your parents or a trusted adult to take you to the doctor and get checked.

I now fear that i may have throat cancer cause the sore just do not go away.What do you think?/or is it just smoking that irritates my throat cause i have not quit yet. Please help.

Also, I do have my tonisls and adnoids removed when I was 3 yeras old...im actually 19....I do not smoke 8 to 10 anymore since this pain started. I only smoke 3 to 4 a day now or less than that? Should I completley quit? Its not hard for me but its just a habbit and i use it for stress...

Zero risk and your sore throat is probably from all that smoking you did in the past.Welldone for quitting.Give yourself a pat on the back.

He gave me a 7 day course of antibiotics, i think it was Biaxin xl 500mg a tab or something like that, my sore throat got better but didnt fully go away, and the lump was still stuck back there. A month after that I went back to him which was a few days ago and he gave me a 10 day course of the same antibiotics and its been 4 days since I started taking them, I'm hoping it helps. my questions are 1. Do you think that I have anything serious like cancer or a tumor or something along those lines?

I've had a scratchy sore throat for over 6 weeks. Went to the doctor after two weeks and was put on the Z Pak for three days. The sore throat went away for a day and came back. I went back to the doctor and was told that my throat was a little red and I was put on penicillin. I have no fever or swollen glands. My throat feels more scratchy and irritated then it does sore. I also have a stuffy nose usually at night.

The initial infection was dealt with by antibiotics quite easily but it left behind this sore throat. I am 23, don't smoke, barely drink, and eat a relatively healthy veggie diet. I have been to my GP a lot of times. I have been tested for Mono twice, both came back negative. I have had numerous throat swabs, all negative. I've been on about 10 different types of antibiotics, none of them worked. I have been to see the ENT consultant who said it was GERD.

I've been suffering from a sore throat on the right side for about 2 months now and am at a loss for what to do? The pain is mild & daily from morning to night and occasionally travels to my ears. I've also had lingering discomfort on the right side of my groin, and a bit of a loss of apetite. I'm 30 years old and have been a moderate smoker (about 5 cigarettes a day) for 15 years & am a moderate drinker as well.

My fever was not really high but my throat was sore, my ears were hurting, i felt weak etc etc. The doctor ordered me to let it run its course and so it did. In 2 days time i was feeling great, i got back to work (i am a teacher) and everything was fantastic. 10 days later (about 2-3 weeks ago) I got ill with some virus that made my throat sore again and gave me a stuffy nose that I am still battling. In the last month, the strangest thing has been happening to me.

Hello and hope you are doing well. Recurrent sore throat could be due to post nasal drip, which can cause a chronic irritation in the throat. This could be due to a sinus infection, a cold or a chronic allergy. It's unlikely to be due to cancer. So, don't worry, but when in doubt best to have it checked. Hope this helped and do keep us posted.

I am writing message this asking for any help available since i am now getting quite desperate to find a solution to my recurring throat pain.. It started almost exactly a year ago when I got a severely sore throat (with no cold or flu etc.), i was on holiday at the time so i just got and over-the-counter throat spray from the pharmacist. two weeks later the condition had still not improved.. i visited my doctor and he promptly took a throat swab followed blood test etc.

I have had a sore throat for 5 weeks now.the Tonsils and back of throat are really sore!! Dr seems to think its nothing to worry about.Also my arms feel really week.Has anyone else suffered with a sore throat for this long??

I have had a sore throat, which causes my voice to 'catch', for about 5 weeks. Some days it is almost none existent, others it feels quite raw. I don't have an elevated temperature although on one occasion last week, for no apparent reason, I broke out in a profuse sweat - I was soaked - but recovered within minutes with a drink of water. I have a slight sensation of cattarh in the back of my throat but not so much as to make me cough, just enough to cause throat clearance every hour or so.

Being hypothyroid can bring on viruses and colds. Even if you are not having classic symptoms the sore throat and ear pain can be a problem. I suffer that but as my TSH is lower it is less noticeable in the throat - no ear pain anymore. But the cough is there. I experience a dry cough too - but I smoke. Before I had thyroid problems I never noticed a "cough" but now it is there. Quit!!! I say to myself and that will happen MAy 17th. My sone asked me to do that for his birthday.

Every person who has successfully quit smoking will tell you it was one of the hardest things to do. I smoked for 40 years and I can tell you that, for me, it was all about the stress and anxiety....what you have to realize is that smoking doesn't alleviate those things, it actually makes it worse because you are constantly thinking about that next cigarette and berating yourself at the same time for your weakness...causing you to smoke more and continuing the pattern.

although havent smoked since then but paying for the past 10 years of smoking. My throat is sore.baby's size causes my lungs to be pushed n i can hear my wheezing as my breathing system is highly effected Reason for telling u this is just to make u realise that the little one innside u is totally dependant on u n has no choice.we want our babies to be physically n mentally healthy so we be careful abt wat we eat,drink n inhale.

Hi guys. For three plus weeks now I've had a sore throat. At first all I noticed really was a 'cold' sensation in my lower throat (by my collarbone) when breathing. That's still there, and now I've started to develop a little bit of pain on the right side of my throat under my Adam's Apple, only really when swallowing. I'm also quite congested in the morning, and when swallowing I can feel mucus going down my throat. I don't cough hardly at all, just clear my throat every once in a while.

What you have is acidity and smokers throat. There is probably some reflux because of smoking and this could also be contributing to the sore throat. Chest pain, pain in arm and achiness could also be due to anemia, often seen in smokers due to invisible GI bleeds. Hence get blood test for anemia, stool test of hidden blood and a carbon urea breath test to identify H pylori infection in stomach. You could also be having low BP, and low blood sugar if you do not eat at regular intervals.

How long would that last? I recently quit smoking. Developed a small canker sore to add insult to injury...no other sores. I've read up on Cancers of the throat and besides the sore throat I've got no other symptoms. My sister had thyroid cancer but a lump was clearly visible I have no visible lump or can I feel any ''lumps'' My lymph nodes aren't even swollen. I think it has something to do with my travels, I keep telling myself that cause cancer freaks me out.

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