Feeling of something stuck in throat

Yes, me again. (sticks hand up once more).

When symptoms hit, I felt there was something in my throat, food seemed to hang up there..and sometimes if i wasn't careful I inhaled into my windpipe.


It is so much better now....maybe 60-80% better...it changes.

I also sometimes get a bit of a dry cough. I had a scope through my nostril down my throat so the ENT could check it out. He went as far as my vocal chords. Said everything was fine...no acid reflux damage...
I also had a barium swallow xray - it showed nothing.

Yep, not my thyroid.

I had a lump in my throat that felt like I had a pill stuck, I had trouble swallowing pills, and had a sudden increase in my weight too. I found out that it was due to a very unusual presentation of a swollen thyroid with only the back side of my thyroid swelling. I had to get up to 1.5 grains of Armour thyroid before the swelling went down, but only 2 days of being on the dose, it went down. All of my blood tests were within the "low normal' ranges.

Now that I'm up on 1.75 grains a day, my weight is starting to normalize. If you really feel you likely have something going on with your thyroid - keep pushing. I finally found a doctor that would listen to me and really check it out by using the "Good Doctors list" that can be found here: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

I have that not all the time but still if I take pills, they get stuck in my throat or even if I'm eating something, I also have to be drinking something to wash it all the way down. I also choked a lot and the choking has stopped (knock on wood).

I would also feel like somebody was choking me,I felt pressure around the front of my neck but supposedly I have hashimoto and since backing off on my thyroid dose it has stopped.

IHL.....I get the same throat closing issue for yrs off and on....worse with treatment. I found it to be especially worse while taking Rifampin! It's like a very tight, closing, difficult to swallow feeling that gets worse if i even put my hand near my throat. What is taurine and has it especially helped you?

Thanks IHL...I'm going to look this up...i can't handle the sensation anymore.

So I have a couple of cents to pitch in. Now I have tested positive for Lyme but have not yet started treatment.

I was diagnosed with Thyroid issues years ago and I have had to play with the dose but the stuck pill/throat closing feeling was never a result of my my thyroid issues. My dose is good now and the symptoms I can definitely attribute to thyroid are all good (mostly). One thing to be aware of is that when taking care of thyroid, the middle of the range is not the best value for everyone. So people feel better at one end of the range or the other.

I also did the whole endoscopy thing and nothing was found.

So I still had that closed throat feeling. One day at my Rheum visit I mentioned dry mouth and dry eyes, and my doctor asked lots of questions. I had those symptoms for years but no doc ever wants to hear the long list of symptoms we all have, so it didn't come up before. He asked if I was able to swallow food without something to drink. Nope. Do you feel like you always have to be drinking something. Yep. I lifted up the bottle I had with me.

He ran a bunch of testing for autoimmune diseases including Lupus. All negative. But he said "just because its negative doesn't mean there is nothing wrong." my favorite thing he has said ever.

So he had me research Pilocarpine (the generic for Salagen). I started on 5 mg three times daily and worked up to 10 mg four times a day. The dry mouth completely went away. Not just that, but the "pill stuck in the throat" feeling completely went away as long as I took the meds on schedule.

I know its one more med to take. I don't know if there is an herbal equivalent.

I wouldn't give it up for anything. The dry mouth/dry throat feeling was one of my most difficult symptoms. It comes back if I take a dose late. It starts at the bottom of my throat and feels as if all the skin (or throat lining) is stuck together. I didn't feel that before taking the meds because it had become "normal". Now that I have been on it so long, I really can't tolerate the dry mouth/dry throat at all.

The med is usually used for Sjorgen's syndrome (could be spelled wrong), but if it takes the symptoms away who cares that you don't have the label that goes along with the med.

It's also used for people who have had their salivary glands damaged by radiation therapy. I would think that given how Lyme and co have done damage to so many of our organs, why leave the salivary glands alone.

When I get treatment for the Lyme, I may eventually be able to come off the Pilocarpine but for now nothing would make me give it up. It has made life more bearable.

Hope this helps,
Kim

When I first got sick I felt like each bite of food was too big. I could not get it down. It scared me so much that now I take tiny bites. I don't know if this is what you went through but I thought I would choke on my food. Honest to goodness the symptoms are so varied and weird and definitely individualized.

There's an autoimmune food intolerance symptoms where the inflammatory process effects the eosinophil cells in the lining of the esophagus. What happens is there's TOO many eosinophils which results in an allergic type reaction...

I used to have that feeling daily, and I DO also have low thyroid but thT was NOT what caused that lump in the throat feeling.

I'm sorry I forgot the medical term for the esophagus disorder related to eosinophils.

Get IgG allergy food testing

Abx come with their own issues anyway, and then we take high dose abx, so the issues are increased - but it's still better than trying to live with these infections. We have to be aware of the dangers and be proactive with our health and make sure certain screenings and tests are done so that we can heal from these infections.

That "I've got something stuck in my throat" feeling can be just symptom of Lyme, or it could be something else. We should never assume that all of our symptoms are caused by these infections and therefore we can ignore them. If you have any symptoms that are bothersome, it's worth it to have it checked out.