fear of eating- help :-(

Hi all,
I have posted previously about my throat problems due to having a cricopharyngeal spasm. Due to this i think i'm starting to develop a fear of eating. I have the symptoms constantly throughout the day but when i eat they seem to get worse (which is weird because all the info i have read in the spasm says that eating helps to relax the muscles).

I can eat stuff like soup, yoghurt and soft vegetables (basically thing you can't choke on) but my symptoms become worse when i eat other things, i tried to eat roast pork last night, i don't have a problem swallowing and i have never choked on food but my throat feels like it is swelling in the area of my glands and it turns me off eating.

Has anyone else had a problem like this or similar? This has only been a problem for me in the last week, before that i could eat anything i just ate very slowly and took small bites. I don't want to limit myself on what i can and can't eat because i know in my head that the food isnt getting stuck it's just the symptoms of the spasm.

Any advise on this would be fantastic

-Sezz

hey sezz-nice to know you.; I wrote about 3 paragraphs in response then got disconnected from the net and it didnt go through.

scaredy cat-thanks so much for those links-read them all.

My husband had this same thing. He was under a lot of stress when he lost his job. Food would get "stuck" and he saw the Dr for it and it was a spasm most likely brought on by stress. He finally got his life back after starting a new business, and when the stresses lifted from unemployment so did the choking feeling with food. In the meantime I made sure he had what he wanted to eat and lots of love and support. It was a really hard time for us but we made it through. He hasn't had the problem since. I am sure it was stress. Life is hard and we need each other for help.