12) Sensation of a lump in your throat
Patients often come to the emergency room because they feel a lump in their throat, sometimes after eating, in other cases as a continuous symptom. Both scenarios should be carefully examined, and your doctor might need to see a contrast radiograph, an endoscopy study and various imaging tests to assess the ability of your esophagus to pass food and the integrity of the esophageal mucosa.
There’s a mobility disorder in the esophagus called achalasia. It happens when the damage to the esophagus is severe enough to impair the normal function of the neurons and their connection to the smooth muscle of the esophagus.
