I had the same problem earlier this evening when I was eating a steak. For about an hour I felt like something was lodged in my throat and I kept trying to couch it up which ended up in vomiting. After my stomach was empty I tried letting it work it's way down, but I kept having to cough. So I kept sticking my finger down my throat until I finally coughed up a HUGE chunk of steak. I guess it was so good I just wasn't chewing well enough. Maybe you had the same problem.
Lesson learned = something big stuck in your throat will not go down and will cause pain and be very irritating. Bite the bullet and cough that sucker up.
And chew your food :)
Lesson learned = something big stuck in your throat will not go down and will cause pain and be very irritating. Bite the bullet and cough that sucker up.
And chew your food :)
AAahhh, this has happened to me twice in the last month. Each time, I begin to feel something scratchy in the back of my throat on the side of the trachea (which confuses me--how could food lodge itself in my windpipe without my noticing its moment of entry?) but no matter how much I cough or use my throat and mouth muscles to extricate it, nothing comes. Each time, after a couple days of irritation, I managed to dislodge it, and both times it turned out to be a small, white, kind of hard but crumbly lump about the size of a peppercorn. It smells TERRIBLE. Did you ever find out what it was???
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. Sounds weird, but one of the symptoms is food getting caught high in your chest, where your throat meets your stomach. It doesn't block breathing, but food gets stuck and is quite painful. You can't even get a swallow of water down to help. Basically, a piece of your stomach pushes up through your diaphragm forming a little pocket. Food gets caught in this unexpected pouch. There are different levels of severity, and it can be fixed. Go see a Dr. to find out. Especially problematic if you eat fast, or with certain types of food.Hiatal hernia
Good luck.
Hi, I hope this helps all who have symptoms of food getting stuck in your chest when you eat something. There was help for me. This is my story:
It started about a year or so ago when I would eat something and within a few moments it felt like the food stopped in my upper to middle chest area (which was scary to say the least). Not all the time, but did seem to happen more and more as time past. Usually, the problem would only least for a few moments, but on a few occasions did last long enough for me to try to cough up what I eat. I started to curve my diet to eat only things I believed I would not have a problem eating and then I would eat small bites and very slowly. Some of my other symptoms sometimes (not always) included: a little wheezing, mild coughing, and some sneezing. I got tired of dealing with the problem, which I started to deal with on a day to day basic, and went to the doctor. Here is what he said:
I had acid reflex that was masted by asthma. I explained that I NEVER had heart burn, but did have a lillte asthma for time to time. He was very sure of himself and put me on PRILOSEC for 30 days. After the second day the problem seemed to be gone. It has been 2 weeks now and the problem is still gone.
Check with your doctor before you start taking any meds. But it seems like I put up with the problem for a very long time, just to find out that the solution was very simple.
Good Luck to all
Roger
It started about a year or so ago when I would eat something and within a few moments it felt like the food stopped in my upper to middle chest area (which was scary to say the least). Not all the time, but did seem to happen more and more as time past. Usually, the problem would only least for a few moments, but on a few occasions did last long enough for me to try to cough up what I eat. I started to curve my diet to eat only things I believed I would not have a problem eating and then I would eat small bites and very slowly. Some of my other symptoms sometimes (not always) included: a little wheezing, mild coughing, and some sneezing. I got tired of dealing with the problem, which I started to deal with on a day to day basic, and went to the doctor. Here is what he said:
I had acid reflex that was masted by asthma. I explained that I NEVER had heart burn, but did have a lillte asthma for time to time. He was very sure of himself and put me on PRILOSEC for 30 days. After the second day the problem seemed to be gone. It has been 2 weeks now and the problem is still gone.
Check with your doctor before you start taking any meds. But it seems like I put up with the problem for a very long time, just to find out that the solution was very simple.
Good Luck to all
Roger
hey, i just found this thread, having felt a small stalk of lettuce stuck under my tongue way down the back and googling it. it drove me crazy for over 24 hours. i sat massaging my gland and drinking a large glass of warm for over 5 minutes and suddenly it dislodged and i could swallow it. it must have been stuck under my gland, because now my lymph node is swollen and sore, but at least the piece of food is gone and no longer irritating me constantly. yay!
This sounds like Tonsil Stones. Check it out, I have them too. Just gargle with Scope or Listerine every morning and night and they'll go away. They get worse during allergy seasons.
I have the exact same problem, it's really disgusting to spit of such grotesque chunks of enidentifiable food... but hte worst part is trying to get it out in the first place! I spend days with my finger in my throat [I usually end up puking at least a couple of times and scratching my throat to the point that it bleeds.] should I go see a doctor or just keep.... digging this.... stuff... out of my throat?
I had something stuck in my throat, probably small sharp chicken bone for two days, I was annoying. I tried a bunch of things before setting up an appointment with the doctor. First tried brush, did not work. had tonnes of water, gulped boiled rice gulped half a banana without chewing, did not work. In a casual interaction with a colleague at work i mentioned my problem, she suggested all the things that I already tried. She handed me a bunch of gummy bears (sweet gel), These are small enough I felt comfortable enough to swallow two three, after a while I realised less irritation in my throuat and I started feeling better. I had 4 or 5 of them one after another and it seemed to work. I have no irritation or pain, and i did not have to visit the doctor.
Thank you all
Thank you all
small & white thing is a tonsil stone (tonsilolith- not sure about spelling)
One day i was eating jelly beans and talking to my friend at the same time. than something bad happend, he make me laugh. i swallowed a unchewed jellybean and i couldnt talk. i drank a big gulp of water and it went down. NEVER EAT HARD CANDY. IT COULD END YOUR LIFE.
IF YOU EVER CHOCKED ON A CHICKEN BONE EAT CHICKEN TENDERS!
IF YOU EVER CHOCKED ON A CHICKEN BONE EAT CHICKEN TENDERS!
One day i was eating jelly beans and talking to my friend at the same time. than something bad happend, he make me laugh. i swallowed a unchewed jellybean and i couldnt talk. i drank a big gulp of water and it went down. NEVER EAT HARD CANDY. IT COULD END YOUR LIFE.
I have had similar thing happen to me and I was told that it very well could be tonsil stones.
The same thing happened to me!
Ok, here's one with some real weird factor. I get the strangest sensations at the bottom of my tongue, around my tonsils, even halfway down my esophagus. When I'm finished masticating my food properly, I swallow. My fully chewed food stops right around the bottom of my tongue, near the tonsils I can only assume. Here's the weird part - I can feel something handling the food. Moving it around, picking out the good parts, and I swallow what feels like a smaller bite then what I had literally just chewed up moments earlier. I have felt me swallow food, with something wiggling, struggling not to go down my esophagus. I've swallowed said wiggly intruder, just to feel it climb back up my throat with ease and wander right back into my pharynx/tonsil pouch areas. Needless to say this used to cause me major distress, I've hocked up gallons of mucus trying to get this little thing caught in it so I can spit it out and see wtf it is. I've screamed at the top of my lungs into a toilet trying to get enough force to cough this guy up. My wife thinks I'm going insane. I think it might live in my trachea and only come out when I start eating. If I fast all day it is worse, cause the little bastard must be starving as well. Lause or mites should be too numerous to miss. Could it be ascarid parasites that have made a home of my trachea/lungs? It feels spider-like though I've not had a spider in my throat to compare the experience. Please offer any opinions of what this could possibly be or how I could find out/catch the thing!
I have to know, did u ever find out was was In your throat? Sounds frightening!