I posted (above this) and my edit time expired so I guess I'll post a new one. I just wanted to say that my roommate made a nice dinner (chicken, potatoes w/ gravy and sliced squash) and I sat down to eat it but with each bite I had to really squeeze it down. It was sooo scary because I'm imagining I have the disease I was talking about in other posts here. Now I'm half-scared to eat anything and that freaks me out even more!!. It's like the bite of food goes down my throat just so far and then I have to really work my throat muscles to get it down the rest of the way. I have heard that stress, anxiety and GERD can cause this and I suffer from all three and have been under a HUGE amount of stress and anxiety over the last month but can the throat thing last a whole week?...two weeks?...how long can it go on?. I have been taking a half of a 0.25mg Xanax and it seems to help but yesterday I took a whole one and it did'nt help that much and whats more, I woke up at 5:00AM this morning and just layed there and I could feel the anxiety building up in me. This has never happened before that I can remember. Is any/all of this normal?.