Not sure what else to describe it as, but here for about the past 3 or 4 months I've had more frequent almost choking like fits, it starts from just a little cough, I don't have to be drinking or eating at the time, just cough and then it's like my throat just closes up. I have a really hard time in drawing air back in and continue to cough like something is lodged in my windpipe though nothing's there.

They haven't really gotten any worse, and I do recover (quicker now that I've learned not to panic from it, like the first time that I just started coughing out of nowhere and just couldn't draw a breath back in.) It doesn't seem to be causing any particular damage aside from the pain of coughing until choking and the burn of not getting air into the lungs, but once it passes I'm fine. I can breath just fine again, my throat doesn't even hurt, takes no time at all to recatch my breath or anything.

The best way I can describe it is that it feels like someone has a hold of me by the neck and is squeezing on my airway. And then they just let go, but because obviously I don't have a hand crushing my airway I don't have the follow-up pain of being literally choked. There's no bruising or anything to make the neck or throat more sore. And the one time that it happen while I was actually swallowing food that I maybe could have choked on, the food came out but the choking continued, until it played itself out.

Has anyone else had this problem? And if so... what can be done for it? If there's anything to do for it... just worried that the neuro is going to chalk it up as just one more thing to learn to live with, which if that is the case so be it... but I'm really hoping that it isn't.