Globus sensation: Anyone else have a lump feeling in their throat?

My own experience with globus stemmed from laryngopharyngeal reflux, LPR. ENT Jamie Koufman has a lot of free advice on LPR on her web site. See if any of that advice can help you. The short version is diet and lifestyle changes. ENT Jonathan Aviv also has free advice scattered across SM; there is a FB group that offers recipes based on his program of whole food, low acid diet. I think the group is named acid watcher diet warriors. Koufman also advises low-acid food and alkaline water, but I think she is more flexible on eating some processed food.

I know a couple of years have past, so not sure you will see this. My 14 year old daughter began feeling the choking sensation in January of this year (2025). It stopped for 2 1/2 weeks and restarted and has not stopped since first week or so of February. She has an EOE diagnosis officially as of March of this year and we have the eating issues under control through diet. But the choking or globus sensation has not stopped and is debilitating. We saw an ENT, he was not helpful. She is on budensinide steroid and a PPI, they are not helping with the globus. She is on a severely restricted diet for almost 2 months now of eating just two foods to see if it is a food allergy. She had MRT testing to find foods causing inflamation. Is there anything new on your condition? I wish you well and hope you found a solution.

Hi Karen -
Your question is now several years old so I hope you’ve been properly diagnosed and treated for your globus. I had similar symptoms over a year ago and was diagnosed via CT scan with contrast as having a thyroglossal duct cyst which usually occurs in children but I was 61 at the time. The treatment is a surgery called the Sistrunk Procedure which usually involves breaking the hyoid bone to be sure the entire cyst is removed or it can come back. From what I was told the surgery is usually outpatient but the recovery can take 2 weeks or more. I continue to procrastinate this surgery but my symptoms seem worse so I should probably schedule it.
Have you had an CT scan and were you checked for this?

I had a carotid body paraganglioma removed from the bifurcation of my carotid arteries on July 10 at Mayo. All went well. 3 weeks after surgery, I developed the globus sensation and some hoarseness, and let my surgeons know. They said the vagus nerve was unaffected after the operation, but were concerned about the 3 wks post-op development. They said to give it 3-4 weeks and then call if still there. I got a call from them on exactly Day 28, inquiring. I told them it's still there, seems to be a larger lump and still have the hoarseness. My post surgical followup is this next week and they may do a scoping and exam, depending on what the post-op MRI shows.