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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 Gravy, 

    Also experiencing the exact same symptoms as you. Started 2 weeks ago, pain all down one side of my neck that spreads to chest, back, ear, it doesn't stop me doing anything but it's uncomfortable and just always there as much as you try to forget. 
    Doctor hasn't been much help, just said I'd laid on it funny and put me on painkillers which oddly don't touch it at all. I'm only 26 so his response was 'you're young, you're fine' which does nothing to reassure at all. 
    I suffer from health anxiety too so I have no idea if I'm fabricating these symptoms but like you I can't possibly be reassured until I've had some tests. I'm also waiting on a dermatology appointment for a suspicious mole on my foot which makes me worry more, although I know it's very unlikely the two would be linked seeing as it's on my foot. 
    So I have no real advice but just reassuring to know someone else is having the same! Reassures that it could possibly be anxiety! 

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    Hi Gravy, 

    Also experiencing the exact same symptoms as you. Started 2 weeks ago, pain all down one side of my neck that spreads to chest, back, ear, it doesn't stop me doing anything but it's uncomfortable and just always there as much as you try to forget. 
    Doctor hasn't been much help, just said I'd laid on it funny and put me on painkillers which oddly don't touch it at all. I'm only 26 so his response was 'you're young, you're fine' which does nothing to reassure at all. 
    I suffer from health anxiety too so I have no idea if I'm fabricating these symptoms but like you I can't possibly be reassured until I've had some tests. I'm also waiting on a dermatology appointment for a suspicious mole on my foot which makes me worry more, although I know it's very unlikely the two would be linked seeing as it's on my foot. 
    So I have no real advice but just reassuring to know someone else is having the same! Reassures that it could possibly be anxiety! 

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