Anyone else experience a similar feeling? You are chewing and you suddenly feel a painful “air bubble” at the back of your throat that’s super uncomfortable and makes it hard to eat. It’s like the feeling of a painful hiccup but it doesn’t go away and makes it pretty difficult to eat, like I’m not chewing slow to avoid choking (cause I know I won’t choke), I’m chewing slow to avoid the feeling, there is also the feeling of certain foods getting “stuck” at the back of my throat.


A little background, 21M, back in 2018 I did a modified barium swallow and was diagnosed with “behavioural dysphagia”, because of the way I chew/eat I guess? They didn’t find anything serious (I don’t choke/aspirate), and as soon as I got this diagnosis I improved!

Though recently things have gotten worse and I think it could be my nerves/anxiety maybe? The last few days have been really bad, I’ve been able to eat breakfast, lunch (though with some difficulty at times), but in the evening it’s the worst and I do end up eating but it’s super stressful. It’s almost like an “awareness” of your swallow. Every time you swallow you feel it, and occasionally food feels like it’s “stuck” and my throat tenses up a bit much.

Oh and today I had hiccups on/off 5 times today which I hear (combined with dysphagia) could be something serious :/ but obviously I shouldn’t read most of these things.