outlaw, I don't have a lot of heartburn. I have the tightness in my throat. No doctor will put me on an anti-depressant now because I have just had an awful reaction to a drug (not an anti-depressant) that I was given too much of...So doctors don't want me to take any drugs right now...Also, I don't think that stress is my problem...Even when I'm relaxed, I CONSTANLY have a lump feeling in my throat...thanks, anyway...