heartburn, tightening /lump feeling in throat. belching and weight gain. I finally went today as was getting quite alarmed by the worsening of the tight feeling in my throat as though someone is pressing on the little hollow at base of the neck at the front. I have also been quite constipated in last few weeks although 'going' just not nearly as much as usual.
She arranged urgent bloods later in day with the practice nurse and was testing for thyroid function , anaemia and something else which I cant remember. She also took a swab from the back of my mouth and examined my stomach and my back when breathing in and out etc and also felt around my jaw and neck in general and whilst asking me to swallow etc.
She said if the thyroid comes back underactive then obviously will just treat for that and if not she will arrange me to have a camera down my throat to investigate the heartburn. She also said if it comes back I am anaemic then that means it could be something more serious (I think, it's all a blur now cos am panicking).
She has prescribed me some gastro tablets to reduce the acid in my stomach in the meantime.
So what do you all think ? I am a couple of years post menopause which is what I have always blamed the weight gain on and in turn blamed the earlier breathlessness on exertion on the weight gain. Also the heartburn I have managed to by and large get rid of myself (or at least the real burning variety, I still get a bit of dull ache in my chest area after eating or on exertion) by cutting out white wine and chocolate which seem to always bring it on.
I am so worried and have been reading Doctor Google (yeah I know ! and now I am asking a group of strangers on an internet forum 
) but are there any medical people out there who can say where they would put their money on whether it's just underactive thyroid /easily rectified or maybe something more worrying in my stomach or oesophagus.
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Really worried waiting for test results for breathlessness,
Bahhhhhumbug · 16/04/2014 18:13
I don't think she felt any lumps or anything in my neck or whether she heard anything untoward when listening to my back and tapping it etc because she didn't say as much and I presume she would say ? or would she ? and when she was prodding my stomach it didn't hurt anywhere but she said top of my stomach felt a bit hard. I am a lifelong non smoker btw which she also asked me but I have done an awful lot of passive smoking as worked in bars clubs and restaurants for many years in the 'good' old days of the thick fog of cigarette smoke and also my exh was a chain smoker and an insomniac who smoked in bed and l often woke up to a cloud hanging over the bed which I had been breathing in all night (god I can pick 'em ) I left him and stopped doing the bar work about ten years ago so since then I could be classed as a complete non smoker passive or otherwise.
thyroid problems can definitely cause anaemia
enjoy that bank holiday 
Bahhhh....just wanted to add this to the thread: dh had all the same symptoms as you a few months ago, plus was waking up at night gasping for breath on occasion. He started to feel like food was sticking in his gullet, which put me into a blind panic.
Anyway: he had an endoscopy and has a small hiatus hernia (I have one too, but only ever had heartburn with it). Far more common post menopause (in women, natch!) and far more common if a tad overweight.
Don't panic about the anemia part until and unless you know you actually are anaemic - you might not be, it just might be the reflux (which can be going on even if the burning pain has gone). More likely, statistically, by quite a lot I think.
Or thyroid, which is also very common 
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