I was advertised this respiratory training device on TikTok and am now having serious complications.

It’s a little flute looking thing that you’re supposed to breathe through using your diaphragm to help strengthen your breathing, but on my second time using it, it must have built up air pressure in my throat because I felt like my throat collapsed inward at the end of my first set of 10 breaths, during my second time using this device.

Now I have a sickening popping/clicking inside my throat whenever I swallow and the entire left side of my throat has this constant feeling of pressure on it.

I’m trying to see an ENT about this, and I have seen an ER doctor and my primary care dr. and so far, it’s a big mystery because they can’t see anything wrong on the outside.

This is hideously uncomfortable and I don’t know what to do while I wait for the ENT. It’s probably gonna be months of waiting, but this is so weird and painful.

Has anyone experienced a popping/clicking when swallowing after an incident with air pressure build up? I don’t know what exactly happened but this is bad.