I’ve been prescribed Ativan and Clorazapam 3 months ago to treat my panic attacks… I was always short of breath and my chest felt tight and I would always get throat spasms…Like I couldnt swallow and I was never hungry. Anyways, my doctor then put me on 40 mg of propranolol for 2 weeks and that never worked either.
I don’t believe I have a problem with anxiety as when I’m feeling good Im the most talkative person out there. I’m also a singer and am used to singing in large crowds on stage and performing. It’s gotten a lot worse and I don’t know how to handle this anymore. I can’t sing these days or enjoy life. Even if I take anti deppresants I feel really good…but very out of breath still and my swallowing problem is still there.

What’s wrong with me? Why can’t the doctors figure it out. I’ve been to every specialist out there. I’ve had cameras down my nose and throat. Things on my chest. X-rays all over my body. I’ve even taken every natural remedy out there. Including hawthorn. magnesium. all the B vitamins Valeriam. I’m tired of being sick and tried and out of breath and everyone telling me they don’t know what’s wrong so they will just experiment with drugs on me. They have actually said that too.

I’m also 19 a female 5″8 125lbs and have had this for 5 years and its been getting worse. It all started with sudden vertigo.
And…I’ve even been to cognitive behaviour therapy and have been told I don’t need treatment there and my mental health is fine… Nothing is working tho and I still get panic attacks so what gives…
I finished doing a fashion show 4 weeks ago and one of the models asked how I got so skinny so fast and what my secret was. I guess the more ppl talk about it the more I think about it. I’ve tried locking myself in my room and not seeing anyone. It’s gotten so bad I never shop anymore mostly cause I just feel exhausted and out of breath.
I don’t have menieres either…that has been ruled out by an ent.

Last week I had a low grade fever and was generally lethargic. I was taking advil then to lower the fever, drinking ice water to help lower, tea with honey when I was home, and slept as much as I could. Lasted maybe 5 days of having the fever and 2 days after the fever broke I finally felt better.

Well now a full week later, I notice the other day that my throat was sort of feeling sore. Not too bad, I took a couple advil and it would be fine until it wore off. I would take one more (since I had been taking it a lot the last couple weeks and didn’t want to encourage any sort of immunity to its effects) when it started coming back and went to bed. I slept late today and woke up with the same sore throat – not terrible, but enough to have me head right for the Advil bottle when I woke up.

Well as the night progressed the pain became worse and Advil stopped doing the trick. I made sure to take one before I went to sleep but woke up 5 hours later from the pain in my throat. Earlier that day I went out and bought a throat spray, but that is only temporary relief. The spray will numb the back of my throat for a few minute and then wear off. I’ve taken more advil in the last hour than I’ve ever had to (even for a headache) and while it’s somewhat dulled the pain, it’s still there whenever I swallow (been drinking bottles of water since I woke up). I already went and gargled with salt water – second thing I did after I took the advil and it offered no relief. I haven’t tried tea and honey yet, only because its painful swallowing just regular water.

As for my throat, took a look at it with a flashlight. It is definitely red and irritated in the back of the throat and spreading to the right side of my tonsil. My right tonsil is definitely swollen and where most of the pain is originating from. There was a white substance on both tonsils, which I went at with a q-tip since I wasn’t sure if it was tonsillolith’s or something else. I deduced they are not tonsillolith’s so whatever it is, it is there. I don’t share drinks with anyone, I have a fiance, but we haven’t been kissing much since I’ve been a sicky sick so I don’t think its mono.

I’m thinking its strep throat, caused by tonsillitus because it should just be the whole shebang. I need antibiotics for it, no health insurance, but I’ll figure out something.

BUT that’s not the point, anyone have good remedies to reduce the pain besides throat spray, gargling salt water, or advil? I passed up the lozenges at the market the other day (picked up more advil since I was using so much lately) for the throat spray, perhaps the wrong choice.

I’m thinking ice cream too when it stops being 5 in the morning….
Note: I’m not suffering any other symptoms. No lethargy, fever, cough, runny nose, etc which normally comes with my strep throat. So it’s pretty weird feeling perfectly okay except for this nasty pain.

I was a sickly child with a lot of strep throat growing up…