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Lockdown Neck and Throat.

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I'm starting to freak out a bit now. I do suffer from bad health anxiety btw

Prior to the lockdown I felt fine then early into it I had one bad night of anxiety and ever since I've had problems with my throat and neck. Constant swallowing, neck pain, then it's progressed to shoulder blade pain and back pain but I try and put this down to poor posture sitting around for 8 weeks. But now I'm getting ear pain and that really does scare me. Can anxiety trigger all of this ? 

I'm getting a chest xray and waiting for a camera down the throat appointment but of course the coronavirus has made things very difficult. I've convinced myself I have either throat or neck cancer because it's approaching 8 weeks now. I'm aware of anxiety constant swallowing conditions like globus but this seems to have gone past the point ?

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    Hi, I have been having very similar symptoms. I have had lower back pain for most of the year and went to both a Chiro & Osteo and helped a little. I had some slightly brown sputum first thing in the morning and had mildly sore throat (not great pain, just a little annoying, but constant) in addition to a sliglt inflamation of my left ear. 2 weeks ago I got a pain in the upper back and 1 week ago started getting neck pain. Like you my girlfriend puts this down to bad posture and I think she could be right, but I am a still a little worried.

    I went to the Dr, told her about my throat and sputum. She gave me anti-biotics, I had a full blood test done which came back normal (no inflmatory markers) and I am booked in for a x-ray in a few days. 

    The Dr said I had a very slight crackle on the right side of my back (lung area) which is why she asked for the x-ray in the first place. She said, the throat and ear was viral and unrelated to the slight crackle in my lung. 

    This waiting stuff sucks, I don't feel bad, but I don't feel good, well at least not 100%. 

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    Hi, I have been having very similar symptoms. I have had lower back pain for most of the year and went to both a Chiro & Osteo and helped a little. I had some slightly brown sputum first thing in the morning and had mildly sore throat (not great pain, just a little annoying, but constant) in addition to a sliglt inflamation of my left ear. 2 weeks ago I got a pain in the upper back and 1 week ago started getting neck pain. Like you my girlfriend puts this down to bad posture and I think she could be right, but I am a still a little worried.

    I went to the Dr, told her about my throat and sputum. She gave me anti-biotics, I had a full blood test done which came back normal (no inflmatory markers) and I am booked in for a x-ray in a few days. 

    The Dr said I had a very slight crackle on the right side of my back (lung area) which is why she asked for the x-ray in the first place. She said, the throat and ear was viral and unrelated to the slight crackle in my lung. 

    This waiting stuff sucks, I don't feel bad, but I don't feel good, well at least not 100%. 

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