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Feels like pill is stuck, upper chest pain, pain in low throat, pain swallowing, lasting a few days

By Tiffplays118462 | 272 posts, last post
Sunita Khatri, MD answered this What Causes Pain In Chest While Eating Food?
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Guest

This happens to me last week. It feels the esophagus has been burned to a degree by the antibiotics. In my case, it may not be caused by stomach acid reflux. Will the esophagus naturally heal by itself? Or there is there any quick cure?
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Guest123422

I HAVE THE ANSWER. Same thing happened with me. I'm at the doctors right now, turns out deoxyclyclin can burn your throat if taken at night and without a lot of food or water. So basically you have to take this horrible medicin (Literally the worst stuff imaginable) and it goes away in a few days. God I hate this stupid deoxyclin it's caused so many problems. Probably gonna stop taking it.
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Guest


I took doxycycline hyclate (100 mg twice per day) for two months for acne. Everything was fine until two months in. I woke up with severe burning in my upper chest and throat. I took the doxycyline for about 2 more weeks but then decided to quit. The worst side effect is I experience irritated upper gum pain whenever I speak. This has been ongoing for about almost 4 months now and I've been off the doxycyline for about that same time. I'm hoping this isn't permanent but no doctor (Dentist, ENT, Gastroenterologist, Allergist, Periodontist) can diagnose it because there appears to be nothing. I'm so fed up with this c**p and wish I had never taken it.
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Guest

That certain type of antibiotic can cause reflux which may be what you are experiencing try taking an antacid to help with the discomfort
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Char

I've just took my tablet and it got stuck I've have glasses of water milk shake and bread to see if push it down my chest is hurting like I've got heart burn and it doing my nut in. What did ppl do to help unstick it ?
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unknown

ive been feeling the sane way for an hour... im worried.
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Guest


Apparently this can happen with Doxycycline - had the same thing happen to me. The pill gets stuck and causes your esophagus to become ulcerated which is very painful for about 2-3 weeks. I could not even eat when it happened to me - only liquids.
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Guest

I am goin through the same thing after taking the same med before bed.  Help it is so uncomfortable

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Guest

The exaxt same thing happened to me. I took doxycycline right before bed and woke up with chest pains. I am still having pains when swallowing and exercising.
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Nonnie

It is very common with Doxycycline to have it get stuck in the esposhgus. You should NOT ignore this. I had this happen awhile back and let it gone on for a week or so. It got so bad that I could not swallow any food or liquid without a terrible burning in my throat. My gastroenterologist did an EDG and removed the pill that was still lodged & said it had actually burned a whole (an ulcer) in my esophagus. Lots of time & Meds for it to heal. If on doxycycline & experiencing problems, have it checked out by a gastroenterologist.
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Guest

I take a ton of pills for several chronic conditions and this has happened a few times in the last couple weeks with some of the larger ones. Feeling like it sticks, chest pain, burping, feeling sick, drinking water and eating crackers did nothing. I thought it was heartburn at first (I've never had it so I wasn't sure what it was supposed to feel like, and it seemed odd that a pill would cause it) so I chugged a glass of water with a spoonful of baking soda mixed in since that was the only thing I could think of to neutralize it and that did ease it up for a few hours. But I'm not sure if it just neutralized a bit of the corrosive contents of the pill or if it was just a coincidence. It came back a few hours later but eventually went away over the next day or two. 

I was told eating hot solid foods are good for this. The heat relaxes your esophagus and makes it expand while the solid food helps whatever is stuck to go down. I'm going to try it the next time

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noma

Try eating noodles it has greesy stuff which will make it slipry and the warm soup will help it desolve Inshallaaah nd im going thru this at the moment just got stuck in my throat cuz i felt lazy to get up nd take proper water and my wife is inn shower right now ill make her cook noodles for me I hav tried this last time it did help hopefull it will work again or maybe its the last day of my life Allah knows the best
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Mariemarie_

That's is so crazy I'm taking the same pill and I'm the same age and I have a sore throat so that's what it his but keep drinking water
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Guest


Thank you for the coffee suggestion! I had a vitamin stuck in my chest & was having heartburn pretty badly. Tried bread, water, jumping up & down. Nothing helped until I tried the coffee. The heat must have dissolved it cause the pressure is gone!! Hallelujah!!!
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Guest

I've been taking doxycyline for about a year and a half now and I suffer from this once every few months, and the doctor prescribed indegestion tablets yet they do nothing. It's so irritating and painful to do anything!
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