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Sinus Thickening, Throat Tightness, and the Language of Medical Evasion


⟡ The Scan Was “Normal.” The Symptoms Were Not. ⟡

ENT Review After CT Confirms Mucosal Thickening, Persistent Throat Tightness, and Postnasal Intervention

📎 Document: [2024-07-25_SWANK_Hamilton_ENT_CTReview_ThroatTightness_PostnasalPlan.pdf]
Follow-up report from Mr. Nick Hamilton confirming persistent throat tightness, sinus thickening, and voice therapy delay — despite “no gross abnormality.”

Filed: 25 July 2024
Ref: SWANK/ENT/HAMILTON-CT-02
Clinician: Mr. Nick Hamilton, MBChB PhD FRCS (ORL-HNS)
Clinic: Harley Street ENT
Findings: Sinus mucosal inflammation, throat tightness, pending voice therapy, medical minimisation

I. What the CT “Didn’t Show” — And What the Report Did

After months of visible distress, I underwent a CT scan of the head, neck, and chest.

Result?

“No abnormality within the throat, trachea or thorax.”
“Previous sinus surgery noted.”
“Polypoidal mucosal thickening.”
“Thickening in the left maxillary sinus.”
“No drainage obstruction.”
“Still getting a sense of tightness in her throat.”
“Still wheezing.”

In other words: everything is fine, except what isn’t.

II. The Medical Dance of Qualified Denial

This letter confirms:

  • CT scan with mucosal thickening and sinus inflammation

  • Persistent throat tightness and episodic wheeze

  • Continued muscle tension likely aggravated by postnasal discharge

  • Voice therapy referral not yet actioned

  • Recommended Betnesol irrigation twice daily for two months

  • Follow-up arranged

This is care, but it is care filtered through doubt.
It is medical recognition dressed in neutralising language.
It acknowledges inflammation, but avoids escalation.
It documents suffering, but avoids naming harm.

III. Filed Under: Quiet Acknowledgement, Delayed Action

Let the record show:

  • I returned. I followed up. I did the scan.

  • The scan showed thickening.

  • I was still tight in the throat and wheezing.

  • The diagnosis — and my condition — persisted.

And still, at every stage, the language softened what the data confirmed.

This letter lives now in the SWANK Archive as evidence of:

  • Persistent symptoms despite months of reporting

  • Slow-walked therapy for muscle tension dysphonia

  • Subclinical inflammation reframed as “normal”

  • Polypoidal thickening described but downplayed

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