Dysphasia from anxiety?

Has anyone developed dysphasia (trouble swallowing) due to anxiety? I’ve always had a fear of choking my whole life, but I’ve had dysphasia for a long time now due to GERD, silent reflux, & LPR, and possibly anxiety? I have a huge lump in my throat, it’s so scary. I’ve been put on stomach meds and anxiety meds as of the last few days.. I’m hoping it clears up soon because I’ve lost so much weight and I cannot eat solids🙁 I’m always panicking over this. It’s constant!

Lacey,

You have my empathy with reflux and the rest. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. To answer your question, I certainly believe the two are related. A mind/body connection can also exist.

Imagine someone that gets bad news, are scared, etc., especially in a cartoon. Remember how they look like they get a big lump in their throat and can't swallow? I think it can be pretty real!

Try to occupy your mind with the good things and see if it helps put you at ease.

Best,
John

I have this exact thing it's weird! I have eaten 5 meals total in 5 months but I do live on Soylent and Odwalla Protein shakes.

I'm afraid of choking because of the Globus feeling so I avoid it. It's the worst thing ever. I hate it, makes me feel down like I'm missing life because of this. On a positive note I've lost 40+ pounds and I needed to!

After all my searching I've realized that Pepsin from LPR is irritating my throat causing Globus. I also know full well that my anxiety makes it worse. I get fear that my throat is just going to close all of a sudden and I'll suffocate.

So I ordered Gaviscon Advance from Amazon. Takes a while to get to the United States but oh well. I also started drinking 365 Alkaline Water 9.5 PH since it was shown in a scientific study to inactivate any Pepsin in your throat.

Sometimes it's certainly worse than other times. But it's always extremely troubling when I concentrate on it. I know it's hard not to with the darn feeling going on but anxiety does make it worse.

Globus has changed my life, in a way I wanted to get control over my bad eating habits and it certainly has! But I miss eating food - any food but I can now live without all the nasty fattening stuff. I just want to eat some tasty lentils without fear of choking to death.

I haven't given up hope.