Hi,
I want to thank you all for all of your suggestions about my throat
problems. I have made a list of your suggestions and followed many. While
I have so far skipped booze, I do have a nice collection of rather
interesting teas. I wanted to tell you what the Ear Nose and Throat
Specialist said. He took a look, I won't describe how, and said that the
cause of my discomfort was acid reflux, which had caused some of the tissue
below the vocal chords to swell a bit. So I'm on (tasteless) meds. He said
that this was so common that in his practice he had almost seen no other
cause of this, and he said that acid reflux problems were very very common.
So be warned. I will continue to follow (most of) your wonderful advice,
and take my medicine.
Rickey Holt.