GoAway

I had to respond because I couldn’t believe my eyes reading this. I’ve been suffering from globus since Dec 2018. I feel no soreness or heartburn, just a fullness in my throat (sometimes chest) on good days and the irritating crawling feeling on bad. In fact, what prompted this response was your inclusion of the ‘crawling’ sensation. I’ve never seen that listed as a symptom, and when I brought it up Dr looked at me crazy. I feel near constant globus, made slightly better by eating food. Swallowing saliva seems to make it worse. On good days it’s like a pill or finger is stuck in my throat, but I can try to ignore it and cope with my work. On bad days, that’s when the “ant/worm crawling at the bottom of my throat” feeling hits and I truly regret being alive. There also seems to be a lot of clear icky phlegm in throat ALL THE TIME, no matter how much I hack up. Seems to alternate (with overlap) between the 2 feelings with no rhyme or reason. Seen 3 ENTs, Nasal endoscopy and barium swallow. Tests were all inconclusive, but I’ve been suffering. I was put on LPR reflux meds for months - literally no change. Pandemic cancelled my further tests, and I almost lost hope till I stumbled on a post few weeks back. Guy saying he took anitihistamines to relieve globus. I had nothing to lose, so I tried it. IT WORKED. I’m a huge skeptic normally, but I was so happy I actually cried. The tightness didn’t go away fully, but the crawling disappeared which was more than enough after 2 years. I was taking 1-2 Benadryl before bed over the holidays and waking up to a mostly relaxed throat. Although, its like the muscles are so used to being tight they are searching(?) for a trigger that’s no longer there and kinda spasming. I assumed that would eventually pass, because for the first time in what felt like forever - I felt mostly relief. Then, I forgot to take it the past few days and woke up with the crawling this morning (ergo why I found this post) which saddened me because I thought I was finally on the mend. I was ready to write today off, then I took a Claritin, nodded off for an hour and poof crawling gone. So now, I am as glad as I am confused. I would like to know more about your situation, and I’ll answer any question you have.