Hi BadBrain

I think I get what you are talking about. I had an instance a couple of months ago when it felt like my throat was just closing up. It was like pressure and tightness just below my voice box. Like someone was squeezing my vocal chords - and all around my neck. It reminded me of the sensation you have when you hung upside down too long on the monkey bars as a kid.

Pressure became pain over the next couple of hours. Then I started to get palpitations and upper chest pain. It was difficult to breathe as I couldn't seem to get a full breath without pain. I couldn't sit up straight, I couldn't lay down, it hurt too much.

I had a range of tests to make sure it wasn't my heart that was behaving badly. Everything came up fine in tests.

My neurologist said that since everything else had been excluded (heart, thyroid etc) he thought MS must have been the cause. He said it was likely that it started out as an MS hug and then anxiety took over and that probably caused the palpitations and pain.

I eat very slowly too, and often choke on liquids (gong down the wrong way)

Have you been checked out for thyroid problems? I believe that can also cause the symptoms you are talking about - of course, I am not a doctor so I don't really know. Would pay to get it checked out.

Cheers and I hope you are feeling better soon.

Lyn