Feeling of swollen tongue anxiety symptom?

I haven't had this one (yet at least) but I know it's a symptom of anxiety. I'll message you a link and you'll see!

Yes. I have 1 of three things.

1) my throat feels like it's closing

2)my tongue feels like it's swelling up

3) my uvula (or whatever that dangly thing in the back of my throats is) feels like it's swelling

Just last night I had number 3. Felt extremely big and like it was blocking my throat. I had to drink water which made it worse, so I ate some chips which also made it worse (but this was like 3am and that was the only food near me lol) so finally I did the thing I do everytime I have any of those feelings.

I took a picture (well more like 20 to actually get a good angle lol) of my throat. Just to make sure everything was normal size. And it was. Still felt uncomfortable, but at least I knew it was okay.

Usually if I am up and about, I will go to a mirror and shine my phone flashlight I. My mouth and make sure my throats is open, my uvula is normal size and my tongue is a normal size.

Hay I suffer panic and anixty disorder too it really ruff sent me the massage of the symptoms please

Hi there I bit my tongue a few days ago and have been having minimal pain on that side and woke up with it hurting. I went in to the bathroom to look at it and the under part of my tongue is swollen there and every time I swallow there is tension and it's hard to swallow directly under my jaw in my neck where the soreness is in my tongue. It's also important to note that I have had a very bad cold but am at the tail end of it. I am very aware of my body due to my health related anxiety so know that my tongue looks very different underneath. I also felt it and it feels like thick and swollen. I have tried heat, salt water, tea, gum, ice, etc and it's freaking me out Have you or anyone on this forum experienced anything like this before? I am so scared

hello, i know this post was written 4 years ago but i am really struggling with that exact feeling right now and driving myself up the walls with this feeling that there is something wrong with me, however after seeing your message its helped me so much in realising that im not just alone and to calm down all this anxiety inside. so thank you

I know this was posted a long time ago, and I certainly hope you are better by now 😉...... I just wanted to mention that I suffer terribly with a similar issue, to the point it is sometimes absolutely debilitating and seems to have an awful, roller-coaster effect on my anxiety/OCD/physical pain. Just knowing someone else had an issue similar to mine is oddly comforting, though I certainly hope your story had a happy outcome! I think my pain/obsessing and being anxious about the pain is tied to hormones and anxiety brought on by hormonal changes. My first episode of bizarre "tongue anxiety" started in the last trimester of my pregnancy with my son, and this second one started after menopause & thyroid cancer... I don't know if anyone else has had this, but some days it's so bad I'm sure I am salivating more than usual, as a reaction to whatever nerves are being irritated in my mouth. It is awful, managing this issue; sorry for ranting about it. Be well everyone - rachelvioletta

hi there!! do you still have this issue ?? it s happening to me as well. thank you

I get a similar feeling of my throat being tight constantly, and just a couple minutes ago I had a short panic attack where it felt like my tongue was swelling up. It's the middle of the night so it was hard to tell if it actually was or not, which just added to my panic.

Anyway, I didn't know what to do, so I turned to Google and ended up here.

It's reassuring that I'm not the only person to experience this and honestly I think knowing that is what stopped my panic attack just now.

Thank you to OP for posting about it and to everyone who commented 😃

i am currently strugglinng with this did yiu ever get an answer?