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What Could Be The Needle Like Stabbing Feeling At The Back Of My Throat That Causes Coughing, Gagging And Eye Watering?
I have this feeling like a needle stabbing the back of my throat causing coughing gagging eye watering etc my medications are unchanged and so is my diet and environment .went to my GP who was mystified it is happening at least every few hours daily and I am eighty yrs old it is getting me down
Mon, 30 Dec 2013
Hi, the most common cause of this is GERD and taking of proton pump inhibitors helps. Another reason can be laryngopharyngeal reflux and usually responds to PPI. Foreign body feeling with osteophytes in the cervical vertebrae also can some times leads to this. Before all this, please get yourself examined by an ENT so as to rule out any mass or ulceration in the throat. Regards
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