Difficult swallowing because of GERD or silent reflux?

Long time lurker here!! Reading all the posts definately helped and thought I would post my story here. I hope to get some answers here.

Earlier this month, one night I was eating pistchio. I was laughing and having conversation at that time. Without knowing I swallowed half of pistachio without chewing. As soon I realized I panicked. I ate bunch of mango and break on top of that hoping it will carry it down with it. I got super anxious and threw up couple times. I guess I was forcing my body to expel that pistachio out. The feeling of throat went away but kept me up. I waited and waited, finally gave up and went to ER. They did X-ray, told me there was nothing there. Given protonix and anxiety med to help me sleep. Even since this experince I am so scared of eat anything solid, pretty much living on liquid food. I have lost so much weight. I am tired of liquid diet and want to eat something but scared at same time.Also, post ER visit, I started to have GERD symptoms. I never had GERD before in my life. Btw I am 27.

I saw two primary care before finally seeing GI doc. One of gave me nexium 40 mg. It helped with my symptoms from day 1 of taking. I no longer have GERD symptoms. I am just scared of eating anything. I am afraid it will get stuck. I don't know if I have something physical problem with throats or just psychological. Oh and when I saw my GI doc, as soon as she entered room she said I would have to get endoscopy done. I am very scared of endoscopy. She said she might have to dilate my esophagus. I understand endoscopy seems to standard procedure by GI doc but I felt it was bit too early to get to that in my case. Anyways after I denied endoscopy she gave me omeprozle and told me to keep taking and try solid food. If it gets stuck just go to ER. She said she would order barium swallow but she hasn't done it. Honestly I dint find this doctor helpful. I ask her what I can eat in meantime she is like I don't know. I think I need to find another GI. I also had my ultrasound for thryrod done and it came normal.

I am so hungry and I want to eat food like normal person. I am health profession student so school has been super stressful. Since I am hungry it's hard to get any study done.my family keeps forcing me to eat but I just can't. I avoid eating, always makes excuses. I cry everyday thinking if I will have to spend my life like this. Only time I am at peace when I am sleeping. I know I need to try someday to eat to find out it actually gets stuck or it's in my head but I just can't get courage.i planned on eating rice today but ended up not doing it because I thought it would get stuck. I also get excess salivation and something it creates feeling like something is still in my throats but that goes away with time
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Sorry for long post and my story probably doesn't follow in order, I am sorry in advance.

sorry this reply is so late are you feeling any better and did you get any tests done. I had a similar problem happen back in November I got food stuck and starting coughing real hard and wound up going to the ER. Everything was normal said I probably scratched my throat. and 1 week later I started having trouble swallowing scared to eat anything. got a barium swallow done everything was going down slow. they wanted to scope me and I let them do it. Had redness in my throat and put me on zantac and prisolec didn't help. had a mamometry done said it was normal but I still couldn't eat. I got refered to a specialist and had the same tests done I had a weak swallow and gerd and a hital hernia. I got the surgery nisen fundoplication surgery done on 3-16-17. I can actually eat again just a lot less and eat slower. I lost a total of 60 pounds.
let me know how you are doing