some sort of lump in my throat

HI, murkie! I did experience that last year. At first I though I was just having a dry throat so I just kept on drinking lots of water. Then one night, I feel I was choking. I had difficulties swallowing my saliva. And it took about 2-3 second before I could finally swallow. There was just a feeling of breathlessness sometimes. But this usually happens when I was about to sleep. On the third night, I got really scared. I went to the ER and have it checked. And I was telling that there is some sort of grain of rice stuck on my throat and had difficulty in swallowing. I asked for an EENT. I even argued with the nurse coz she kept on insisting that I need to have a ECG to check on my heart. Then I said that there is nothing wrong with my heart. It was the throat that is in question. And so, what the EENT found out was my throat was red. There was nothing stuck on it. I was most likely having an allergy and was about to be sick with cough. So he what he prescribed to me was just an antihistamine. I took it for a week then it was gone. I think that it was stress-related coz I was pretty working too hard on my online job back then.

It might be Globus hystericus...a condition mostly due psychological factors(anxiety,depression,sadness etc). Treatment would be keep yourself away from stress.But this is only part of the differential diagnosis. Many other conditons might lead to similar symptoms. It might also be a polyp,esophageal webs,spasm of muscles, inflammation of the throat or a even tumor! You should take it more seriously and pay a visit to your ENT surgeon,do an X-ray examination and an endoscopic examination to confirm the diagnosis.Get well soon Murkie!!

OMG!! Try to squeeze it or choke yourself hard. Later on, you will find out what it is that makes you feel uncomfortable. Okay, seriously, like what the others said, go to the doctor and have it checked.

that is because of some virus or lump might occur as a result of humoloid things getting stuck in the throat and it will get cleared soon,dont worry as it not a goitre or some distress function calls

I think you should have an immediately check for a medical professional. Normally a swollen lymph nodes return to their normal size. Relax and see a doctor. Hope that everything will be fine. :)

You need to get that checked right away. It may not seem that serious but just to make sure that your okay and you get the right treatment or suggestion, might as well get it checked, okay?.

I know every one said the same thing but I will say it again go to a doctor ASAP better find out what it is instead of guessing!

It could be stress or it could be many other things. I think the best thing to do is just to go to the doctor. Have you gone yet. And I say don't work yourself up in a frenzy because of what you are reading on the internet. Because that could scare you even more. Anyways, I had something similar and I thought nothing of it as well. Until I got really sick one day. I always had this tightening in my throat or the feeling of something in my throat and would not go down. Then one day I just got really sick and had to go to the doctor. Come to find out I was having problems with my thyroid. So basically I have been getting treated for my thyroid to get it back on track and now things have gotten better and the feeling had gone away. I too had looked up things like you on the internet to see why I would have that feeling and the internet would tell me so many things and then it just freaked me out. There was even a point that I even thought that I had a tumor because that is what the internet said. I say you'll never know what it truly is until you take yourself to the doctor. It could be nothing at all, but if this is a concern to you and has you worrying then, better to go to the doctor for them to say its nothing at all then to not go to the doctor and it was something really serious. How long have you been having this feeling any way. I had the feeling in my throat for like 6 months and it just never went away.

Does it bother you? Does it give you pain when you eat or swallow? How long ago is this already? I am sure that it's just something that will go away when it subsides. I hope you will be able to find some medication for it.