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Why am I having trouble swallowing – feels like there is something in my throat but no symptoms?

Symptom Advice — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:51:12 +0000

For about a week now, I've had some discomfort in my throat. I am having trouble swallowing because it feels like something is in my throat (not like choking) it just feels swollen. Yet I have no sore throat or other symptoms at all. you can't notice any swollen lymph nodes or anything by looking at the throat or neck. if I tilt my head back it makes it a little better but I am just wondering what this could be

Maybe if I had X-ray vision, then I could tell you. if you're having swelling in your throat without any other symptoms, then you need some type of imaging or else it's just speculation.

My mother has a similar problem. it could be acid that builds up in your throat. your best bet is to go see a doctor before it gets too serious.

My blood counts are low and the hematologist did a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy I have no symptoms why?

Symptom Advice — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:17:10 +0000

The answer will come in your bone marrow tests, not speculation. That's why he did them.

The BMB was done to answer those very questions. since you are symptom-free, there is little to go on except the biopsy to see if the marrow can tell any tales. probably will. there are many possibilities as to what is going on, but it's pointless to speculate until the results are in. Even the doc won't guess since there is so little to go on.

Just wait for that phone call….

U.N. panel to search for cholera source

Symptom Advice — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:34:12 +0000

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 17 (UPI) — the United Nations announced Friday the creation of an independent panel of scientific experts to explore the source of the cholera epidemic in Haiti.

“We are calling for an international panel and we are in discussions with WHO (the U.N. World Health Organization) to find the best experts to be in a panel, completely independent… (and) have the best investigation on the source of the outbreak,” the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, said at a U.N. press conference.

There has been speculation that U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal serving in Haiti may have been the source of the epidemic.

“There is no consensus among scientists on this issue,” Le Roy said.

None of the Nepalese peacekeepers had either tested positive for, or shown any symptoms of, cholera and repeated testing of water from their camp has not turned up any detectable strain of the disease, the U.N. says.

“We want to make the best effort to get to the bottom of this and find answers that the people of Haiti deserve,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Haiti was in an ongoing recovery operation from a January earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people when cholera broke out in October.