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Something in the back of my throat?

I have felt like something is stuck in the back of my throat for 4 days now.

I am prone to canker sores but they are usually painful and in the front of my mouth.

I do not have any kind of gastro problem, but I did have a strain of HPV that caused removal of pre-cancerous cells earlier this year. I had read that women who have HPV sometimes get oral cancer.

It feels like a piece of food is back there and I just can't swallow it, it is on the right side of my throat. It does not look like a white spot nor a large bump.
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Omg this has happened to me plenty of times smh I get it out w. My finger sometimes yu have to somehow make yur throat push upward use Ur throat muscles nd push the side of the hole w yur nail and it'll pop riqht out sometimes its more than one thing in there nd its nasty and annoying , iHate it when it first happened I was sooo worried until I jus put my finger in thee nd got it out or sometimes I will jus b sitting hr and it'll jus fall on my tongue nd it stinks Lmao best advice I can give yall lol I just wanted to kno what of really was and sounds to me like nature ???
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maybe its ***
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maybe its ***
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I have the same problem for years, my white-yellow piece is built up within 2 weeks which becomes biggest like a condensed small parmesan cheese shaped into a ball that stuck in the back of my throat on the right side.
When it still a small piece, I feel choked or gagged everytime when I swallow.  And then when it becomes biggest I feel like my throat was thrusted and hurt everytime when I swallow.  At this point I know that It becomes big enough for me to spit it out.  I then go to the bathroom and try to cough very loud and strong in order to get enough force under my throat to spit it out.  I cought at least 5 or 7 times, the very fisrt cough I would get a biggest piece sized equal to 3X of the Q-tip end flying out and dropping down to the sink, I keep coughing until the last small piece get out of my throat.  I use my index finger to crush on this ball to flatten it.  It looks like ground parmesan cheese.  It smell so bad.  
     After I spit it out, I can feel the difference, my breath clear and clean.  The mucus flows into my throat more that makes me try to clear my throat like every 10 seconds. The problem comes back within two weeks for me to clear it out again.

Bottom line is you can cough or hawk very strong to spit it out when it becomes big that make it will loose or break up easily.  Good luck!
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i have them sometimes mine r seemingly from getting small bits of food in the little wholes in the throat and the mucus kinda creates a pearl around it overtime its gross but not unhealthy luckly... i got one out just now not hard to do i use my nail to scoop it out after cleaning alot lol
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I suffer from the same thing as you blondie72, I wasn't sure what in the world it was but yeah I would dig it out and it would smell and it goes away sometimes today I just had to do the same thing again...it's annoying.
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