I got hit in the throat with and elbow and now it hurts what is wrong?

Question:

I was playing football tonight and i went up for a pass and a guys elbow caught me in the throat, i swear it felt like my throat was pushed in to the back. Well anyway it hurts really bad right now, I'm just curious if anything COULD be or IS wrong if I am having a hard time swallowing?

Answers:
as long as your are able to breathe without any trouble and are able to swallow things w/out them becoming trapped inside your throat, then i wouldn't worry about it too much.

you could have bruised the tissue around your throat and this is causing the pain.

if you ARE having trouble breathing at all, or are unable to swallow food or liquids-then report to the nearest emergency room. your esophagus and trachea (windpipe) are made out of very flexible cartiledge but in the event of a traumatic injury, pieces of that cartiledge could crack or break loose-causing injury to that area.

make sure to make an appt with your dr within 24-48 hours just to have it checked out anyways. better to be safe then sorry.

you can take ibuprofen for the pain. take 200-400mg every 6 hours as needed but no more than 1200mg in 24 hours.

You need to have someone look at that for you. What's wrong is that some jerk elbowed you in the throat. Please go to a clinic or something.

The throat area is sensitive (ever notice when you swallow medicine/whole pills sometimes it feels like the pill is stuck in your throat but it really isn't)...it'll go away in a while...

You got an elbow in the throat. Nothing to worry about. How is your friends elbow? May need a doctor to check him over.

Get it seeing to straight away my brother copped a ball in the neck it led to a huge cist.

I got hit in the throat with and elbow and now it hurts what is wrong?

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