Does anyone else have problems with their closing for a split second intermittently? It's almost like there is a flap that slams shut for just a second and then opens back up. It has been happening for a few weeks now. It is right at the back of my throat at the top of my windpipe. The weird thing is, for months before that I would have intermittent numbness in that area. Drove me crazy. I couldn't feel myself swallow. I no longer get the numbness there, but the closing thing really has me worried. I have a very large lesion on the belly of the pons. I have many others, but that is the largest and most worrisome. I have also had labored breathing and what I believe is called the MS hug. A tightening around my midsection with occasional bouts of pain near my shoulder blades. That has also gone on for weeks now. I see my PCP again on Monday. However, he is stumped as to how to help me with the MS symptoms and wants my neuro to address it, but my neuro has been extremely slow in getting back to me. My PCP has offered to refer me to a new neuro. I guess we will discuss that on Monday, but in the meantime, this throat thing really has me concerned. I worry that I will go to bed one night and my throat will close completely and I will suffocate. I don't obsess about it or anything, but the thought does cross my mind when I go to bed at night...
Thanks in advance.
~Jlynn