Costochondritis and lump in esophagus. I'm freaking out a smidge.

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I know some on here suffer from Costochondritis and wanted to know if anyone had an additional symptom of what feels like a sore lump in the esophagus? It's like my food won't go down. I had a flare up a week or so ago which heralded the arrival of a sore throat, hoarse voice and itchy cough. 2 days ago I start with this lump in my chest. Its sore and it won't go away.

So I googled. I keep getting Esophageal cancer which my great gran died of so obviously I've run with the ball and am a bit freaked.

Can anyone tell me this is normal and calm the heck down?

Look up Globus Hystericus, that is far more common than oesophageal cancer and often relates to stress.

Try to relax and hope you get better soon

I had costochondritis at the end of August - I feel your pain I didn't have the lumpy thing though. If you're worried you could go back to your doctor? Google is not your friend!

Oh yes I'll go back to the Doc (even though I was there last week when my Costo was so bad I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack) I'm earning my hypochondriacs badge.

I just won't get in till Tuesday when the DCs are back at school and that's 3 days for me to worry.

Bump.