Found bump on back of throat

Natasha0717 said:

Oh boy, you have no idea how many of these photos like the one you have above^ that I've shown to doctors online, dentists, family members, anyone who would listen! (or look.) Okay, now you need to listen to me here. I went through this exact same thing about 5 years ago, but I remember it well because it was a true nightmare. Your throat looks normal. Your throat IS normal. I found a white dot on my tonsil that would not go away. I'd pick it out and feel really successful about it, and then it would return the next day. Which of course made me believe it was cancer. Along with the suspicious white dot/speck, I also felt like that part of my throat was swollen when I would swallow, and that side seemed like the pink/fleshy area looked raised, or like a lump. My ear on that side would also hurt, and pinch a bit...way deep inside. So then I did the reading and found out that ear pain is associated with possible throat cancer, and BAM! I self-diagnosed and truly believed I had throat cancer, possibly esophageal cancer. I even went as far as believing that food and liquid could no longer get past the "tumor"....so I pretty much stopped eating and drinking. I lost 28 lbs. and ended up at Urgent Care.

The doctor there took one look at my throat, told me the "lump" I was feeling when I swallowed was just my mind focusing on it (and nerves in general)... the white dot was either a tonsil stone or something (poss. plaque) from my wisdom teeth that kept wandering back down to my tonsil and settling there, and then he sent me home with Xanax. This is not a throat problem you are experiencing. This is an anxiety/OCD problem. And most likely, the ear pain you feel is from constantly opening your mouth and inspecting your throat...this gives your jaw and the nerves around the jaw connecting to your ear a real work-out...and that's what is causing that pinching-type pain. Also, ear pain is often related to a clenched jaw, either while you're asleep, or even when you're awake and you don't even realize you're doing it because you're so stressed out.

Forget about your throat, that's the first thing you can do to recover from this. Do not look down your throat with a flashlight (they had to hide all the flashlights from me in the house,) and remember that I am telling you that your throat is normal. But right now, your mind is not normal. (No offence, I just mean your anxiety is really bad right now and the OCD part of it has itself focused on your throat.) Give your anti-anxiety meds a chance. It took me a few weeks to start eating normally again, and then another few months to finally start believing my throat was not covered in cancerous lesions, particularly that one suspicious white dot sitting on my tonsil. And now, 5 years later, I STILL HAVE THE WHITE DOT on that tonsil..........but I no longer care. I am living proof that strange-looking things in your throat are not necessarily cancer, and that both sides of your throat do not have to match perfectly (size-wise). If it was cancer, it would have progressed by now, and I'd either be much, much worse with voice loss, etc., or I'd be dead. And here I am, no change. Everything I went through, that whole entire nightmare, was all orchestrated by my mind, and my mind alone. Don't do this to yourself. The first step: Stop looking at your throat.
Doc already saw it, and that's enough. You are fine.

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