To get rid of the feeling of something stuck in your throat you can try sipping some water or other liquid and take some TUms or other antacid medications.
Another cause of feeling of something stuck in your throat is called globus sensation'.
Globus can be caused by many things, such as an increased tension of muscles or irritation in the throat.
There are various things you can do to manage your globus symptoms at home, without the need to attend your GP.
Swallowing hard on saliva or water helps to stretch the sphincter muscle (muscular valve) that lets food and drink pass down your gullet (food pipe).
Stretching this muscle also opens the back of the throat around the area where some people can feel 'a lump' or something getting stuck.
Although the symptoms can be present for months, or even years, the symptoms do not usually get progressively worse.
A common feature is that the feeling of a lump improves whilst eating, which is due to the reflex relaxation of the sphincter at the top of the food pipe whilst swallowing.
Globus pharyngeus or globus sensation is the painless sensation of a lump in the throat and may be described as a foreign body sensation, a tightening or choking feeling.
It is often associated with persistent clearing of the throat, chronic cough, hoarseness, and catarrh.
Psychogenic problems have often been thought to cause or trigger the globus sensation.
Personality studies have found higher levels of alexithymia, neuroticism, and psychological distress (including anxiety, low mood, and somatic concerns) and lower levels of extraversion in patients presenting with globus.
Nowadays, empirical therapy with a high dose of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) is considered to be indicated for patients with globus sensation, after excluding organic diseases such as pharyngeal cancer, Zenker's diverticulum, or thyroid enlargement.