Always feel like something is stuck in my throat?

[mtmc]

Ok let me start off by telling everyone that I am an average build 23 year old male. I went to the doctor back in October I believe because I felt like I had something stuck in my throat and I had a very minute ammount of blood in my saliva when I spit. Anyway, he told me I have a sinus infection and gave me antibiotics. Now I have always had allergies and plenty of sinus infections and I knew this was no sinus infection. So I take the antibiotics and nothing changes. So I go back to the same doctors office to see a different doctor. This time because again I feel like something is stuck in my throat and I have a small dull paint to the left of my sternum. The blood in the saliva has stopped at this point. She decides it was acid reflux and gives me a months worth of Protonix and schedules an appt. for me to see someone in gastreology. So I've been taking the protonix and I went to see that doctor and he said he thinks I have acid reflux. I've been taking the Protonix as directed but still all the time I feel like something is stuck in my throat. Feels like it's right behind my tongue in the tonsil area. Sometimes it's on the left and sometime's it's on the right but it's always there. I drink plenty of water and the only other thing I drink is sweet tea and that's every now and then. I've drank it my whole life with no prior problems. Also I've noticed that it seems like something slimy. Almost like mucus drainage or something. I have been able to pull some of it up out of my throat and spit it out but it's clear with no color or spots or anything. No relief comes from that. Sometimes I can make it go away for a couple of minutes if I brush the back of my tongue. I took some Ztus expectorant last night hoping it would release it but no luck. Does anybody else have this problem and what can I do about it? I'm going to schedule an ENT appt. next week. There is no pain, it just feels like there is something stuck there much like when you try to swallow a pill without enough water. It makes me worry when I go to sleep because I'm afraid my throat might swell up causing breathing problems. Thanks in advance.

Matt

[aislingmaretta]

Hi I am going to try this I hope to god it works

[Normajoye]

Will this help if you can only consume food or drink through feeding tube? I had tongue cancer 207. Just had test and am cancer free. My mouth and throat went through extensive radiation and is very dry. Thick mucus gathers in my throat and is getting harder to hack out.  Have ask several doctors and don't seem to get any answers.  Thanks

[Banjouk]

I've started practising Kundalini yoga last week and few days after developed this problem. Not sure whether it is yoga symptoms or new blood pressure medicine not agreeing with food I eat and causing symptoms of feeling like food is coming back up and staying.
Looking at possible side effect of practising this type of (powerful) yoga I came across this bit. I've done one meditation (it comfortably,straight back, close eyes and chant the words that produce vibration in your throat) already feels better (but still there) as it seams to clear the airways. Hope it helps.
Throat Meditation
Sit in Easy pose with the hands in gyan mudra (index touching the thumbs). Straighten the spine, drop the shoulders and tuck the chin in slightly to create neck lock.
Chant “Humee Hum Brahm Hum” without using the tip of the tongue at all. Use only the root of the tongue to chant. Chant for 11 minutes.

[elama]

This is my second day of having this feeling of having something stuck in my throat. Like I have swallowed a pill and it didn't go down right got stuck at the bottom of my throat. The discomfort was felt all the back to my cervical spine. I do have whiplash and damage from car accident. It does make food and beverages more difficult to swallow. I find I want to drink warm beverages. I have been sick with the flu for a week almost two and had chest and sinus congestion and all the phlegm and drainage that goes along , a terrible hacking cough and fever, and fullness in my ears. The weather got dry and my cough has not been productive and it all got very dry in there and I thought maybe that was part of it too cuz I think I feel better after a steamy shower.

I started feeling this sensation after eating. I was trying to eat fast and read to my daughter so I thought I swallowed something wrong. My throat is already torn up from all the coughing.  And all the horrible hacking could have misaligned my vertebres.  It does almost feel like a pocket. I get little burps when it get more uncomfortable. I have been treating myself with herbals. Stress? Possibly. Anxiety? No. Depression though, yes.

It doesn't seem like anyone has gotten any answers. That's terrible! I hope people start finding relief!  I hope doctors start listening and looking!

As for me, I will keep steaming and drinking lots fluids. Stretch and get some more exercise as I feel better. I'm going to watch the herbals and try to keep the stress at bay and maybe do some massage. I wish everyone well and answers and relief.

[LonghornCowboy]

Hi gang...
This is hard to believe this thread has gone on this long. I have had this irritating lump feeling in my lower throat BELOW the adams apple now for 10 years and it gets worse every year.
It used to be I got small food particles stuck in it for days. Now I can loose a whole gummy bear or a large pill there and it just sits there till it dissolves.
Everyone I talk to thinks I am nuts! (Those get stuck also.) Rarely I am able to have a odd cough and the food item actually flies up my throat, but usually goes into my sinus nose cavity and hurts like hell there. Rarer yet, it comes out my mouth.
So I know several things.
1. This is not a muscle spasm issue.
2. The food actually comes out from time to time and then I feel nothing is there, be cause it moved out.
3. Today, I get part of ALL my food stuck there.
4. This is a very real condition, and not in my head or from over excitement.  
5. Seems to low for me to be related to my tonsils that seem much higher and do not bother me.
6. I can not clear out the obstruction on my own reliably in any way. The food just sits there and rots, giving me bad breath and I am constantly trying to clear it out causing more irritation.
7. This clearly is a "hole" or a pouch of some kind to be able to hold a large  pill or accidentally swallowed hole gummy bear.
8. Nobody is taking this serious as far as the Docs go. I am trying to get a scope, but am being referred instead yet again.
9. When I get a cold, I can about swell up and not be able to breathe, and I actually make raspy noises when I do from constriction.
10. Like many others here, I have concerns over long term issues like cancer and other complications from the rotting food always stuck in the same spot. Drinking water does nothing to clear it. Other food goes right on by. No problem swallowing, I just keep getting things stuck in a certain spot and can not clear it out on my own.
11. This bothers me now 24/7 and only let's up when I quit eating for several days, and the food that was there rots or dissolves away. Once I eat anything again, it get stuck all over again.

HELP any body who got better? Heck of a run around with the Docs.

Can ANYBODY give me an idea what the heck is getting worse for me here? Again, this has gone on for some 10 years and is worse each year. I am almost 50 now.

I will continue to read these posts, hoping I can find someone like me actually got better and how they did it.

[sarah0288]

I DIDNT MEAN TO POST IT THAT MANY TIMES.
I WASNT SEEING WHAT I HAD POST, SORRY ABOUT THAT EVERYONE