You know when a pill goes down the wrong way and you chug heaps of water but you can still feel it lodged in your throat even though you know it’s not there? Or recently I had a stomach bug and I happened to have eaten noodles before the onset of vomiting and after my throwing my guts up I swear to god I had a noodle still lodged in my throat for hours afterward, despite trying to wash it down with plenty of water. Why? What causes this feeling? Trauma to the oesophagus? Some weird mind body miscommunication? Was there really a noodle stuck in my throat for half the night? Plz explain.
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Doctor here—what you’re describing is called having a sensation of food stuck in your throat, or dysphagia. If it’s pretty rarely that it happens, I would speculate that it may just be slightly disordered esophageal motility and esophageal spasms from the muscles contracting a little differently after a lot of sudden movement (like with throwing up), but it can be a disorder if it happens more often, like an esophageal motility disorder or heartburn.
Here’s a source that explains some of the symptoms and conditions: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dysphagia/symptoms-causes/syc-20372028
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