the occasional co-occurrence of helps and glossopharyngeal neuralgia has been recently recognized. this paper described a patient with both glossopharyngeal neuralgia and hemi-laryngopharyngeal spasm (helps). the paper also found 27 patients that had been previously reported in the literature with glossopharyngeal neuralgia and additional symptoms compatible with (but not recognized as) helps. one such patient from the mayo clinic series described "inspiratory stridor". one patient from the stockholm series in august 1947, "developed attacks of severe cramps in the throat, a feeling of suffocation and dyspnea." these are not symptoms of glossopharyngeal neuralgia; they are symptoms of helps.