Trouble Swallowing

Hi.

I have noticed in the past two years that food, especially meat, sometimes gets "stuck" about halfway down my esophogas. Sometimes I just have to wait for it to move and other times it causes me to have abdominal pain so bad that I will have a prolonged vomiting episode. My worry is that is that it is becoming a lot more frequent. Could this be a stricture ? Thanks.

I have been experiencing this same thing recently also. It is something completely new to me. I don't eat meat, so it is not that specific food that seems to do it for me. I also do not vomit, but the food getting stuck right where you describe and is happening to me nearly every day. What I have noticed is that it will not happen when I eat a small snack, but when I eat a regular meal it occurs. It also happens about half way through the meal. I have to wait and wait for the food to go down and it is actually rather painful and scary at times.

I recently had blood work and there was no mention of a thyroid issue. Hmmm.

I was having this problem so bad,I had spells of choking while eating food the food just sticks at times not only eating would I choke I awoke in the middle of the night choking gasping to get air this was very scary. I had to have my esophogus stretched this has helped but I'm beginning to do the same thing but not as often and it has only been a year since this surgery. This is caused from swelling tissues in the esophgus caused by gerd/reflux,this is what I was told by the Dr. Make sure they completely put you to sleep for this prosedure ask me how I know 'it hurts like you know what'. Hope yours gets better,
Kathy