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What Causes Feeling Of Something Is Stuck In Throat After Quitting Smoking?

i am 28 years old, smoked sine i was around 13 i have quit recently around 3 months ago since then i have had a feeling in my throat as if there was something there as i swallow.. and now for the last few nights i have been unable to sleep due to extremeley painfull pins and needles in my right arm from my bycep down to my fingertips. i am a full time gardener and i am very worried i could have a smoking related illness could you help. thank you
Mon, 22 Sep 2014
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Cannot say for certain without an examination. Sometimes, there is something stuck in the back of the throat!! Mostly, it is an infection, but tumor, infection that needs draining, post-nasal drip, psychological problme are some of the other possibilities. Pins and needles paiin, pain that runs outward in a pathway (that a nerve follows) would generally be a pinched nerve. The area of the pinch is at the start of the nerve. If pain is from the upper arm to the fingers, then , the problem would be at the arm (if there were arm trauma in the past) or in the armpit (like with the arm being pulled or wrenched) or in the neck.
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What Causes Feeling Of Something Is Stuck In Throat After Quitting Smoking?

Cannot say for certain without an examination. Sometimes, there is something stuck in the back of the throat!! Mostly, it is an infection, but tumor, infection that needs draining, post-nasal drip, psychological problme are some of the other possibilities. Pins and needles paiin, pain that runs outward in a pathway (that a nerve follows) would generally be a pinched nerve. The area of the pinch is at the start of the nerve. If pain is from the upper arm to the fingers, then , the problem would be at the arm (if there were arm trauma in the past) or in the armpit (like with the arm being pulled or wrenched) or in the neck.