just wanted to hear some opinions on whether this sounds like GERD or not, I'm seeing my gastro doctor in 5 days to finally find out though.
so since around a year back I've always had chest aches at night, sometimes at other times but mostly at night and when laying down in bed to sleep. it was just a weird pain that distracted me. it was around the time i had my first panic attack and the first few months after that were filled with weird chest aches which sometimes were the causes of more panic attacks. recently, I'd say 2/3 months ago i ate some nutella cookies and i think it caused a dry throat. i felt something wrong and i started coughing and panicking a bit about an hour later thinking i could maybe be choking or something. ever since that day I've been coughing almost all the time every day because it always feels like there's something bothering my throat. for the last around 3 months I've had the feeling of a lump in my throat, like something is blocked in my throat, like i dont get enough oxygen or I'm hungry for it. recently though, i can feel the lump less but I've started having issues with food. 
food feels like it goes roughly down my throat when i swallow and like sometimes pieces get stuck on the sides, I'm fucking terrified of eating because I'm afraid I'll choke, i went to see a throat doctor just to make sure everything was okay (which i didn't think things were) he put some type of thing up my nostril that went down my throat, it had a little flash on it, he said it's to see that there's nothing stuck in there (because i told him i feel difficulty breathing), funny enough nothing was there. it calmed me down a bit but this feeling still bothers me so much, the cough (controllable but throat feels irritated if i dont cough) , the difficulty swallowing/feeling hungry for air, fear of choking, sometimes my breath even smells like puke after i eat. if i cough really hard it feels like something is stuck in my throat like it actually hurts like that, i haven't done it recently though. 
i also, till the last 2 months or so have been eating acidic foods almost everyday, tomatoes mostly, they sometimes cause a bit of a stomachache, last time i had tomato sauce was around a week or 2 ago. my stomach hurted bad and my breath smelled like vomit after.
just wanted to know if this sounds like GERD to you guys or not. thanks