<human>: I have a strange hollow sensation in my chest. It comes and goes with no other real significant symptoms. My mother has GERD and I think I might, too. I run a lot, don t smoke, drink coffee, am stressed and anxious quite often. I think if it were a heart attack, I d be dead by now, because this hollow sensation has come and gone for years in varying intensities. Sometimes I feel like I ve got a lump in my throat.
<bot>: Hi! Thanks for writing to us and for giving us another opportunity to discuss upon hollow feeling in chest and lump in the throat! Well, this is a very common feeling that we see in the following patients:1. Globus : there is nothing in the throat; the patient needs psychiatric assessment2. HERD as associated with gastric acidity, smoking, stress, Chat Doctor.  Infections in the esophagus like candidiasis etc4. Tumor in the region only in 1% casesTherefore, you need to see a gastroenterologist for an assessment and if necessary endoscopy and then see a psychiatrist if everything is normal and symptoms are not relieving after taking antacids/anti-ulcer 