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Suggest Medication For Pain In The Throat Causing Difficulty To Swallow

Hi, For the past two weeks I have been experiencing a pain in the back of my throat on the ride-hand side. It hurts the most when I take a deep breath in or swallowing food. Earlier this summer, I had to get a CT scan and an ultrasound done on my thyroid because my doctor thought that there was a lump. I had gotten those done but they couldn t find anything significant to do a biopsy. Could you help me out? Thanks. Amanda.
Mon, 6 Oct 2014
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Hi Amanda.
Since your CT scan and Ultrasonography of the neck are normal, the pain and felling of hurting on deep breath or swallowing food can be due to the following factors ::
There can be costo-chondritis of the hyoid bone or the styloid process.
There can be problem of Psychological disturbance , some anxiety or so.
Ulcer at the painful site which a scan or USG can not detect. You need to undergo Endoscopy examination by an ENT Surgeon.

The treatment may consist of an anti-psychotic medicines, and other symptomatic treatment as per the findings of tender cartilages or so on.
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Suggest Medication For Pain In The Throat Causing Difficulty To Swallow

Hi Amanda. Since your CT scan and Ultrasonography of the neck are normal, the pain and felling of hurting on deep breath or swallowing food can be due to the following factors :: There can be costo-chondritis of the hyoid bone or the styloid process. There can be problem of Psychological disturbance , some anxiety or so. Ulcer at the painful site which a scan or USG can not detect. You need to undergo Endoscopy examination by an ENT Surgeon. The treatment may consist of an anti-psychotic medicines, and other symptomatic treatment as per the findings of tender cartilages or so on.