Can anxiety cause a foreign body sensation in the throat?

Anxiety can cause a foreign body sensation in the throat. Anxiety patients often have unexplained feelings of being on edge, nervousness, and significant symptoms of autonomic dysfunction, muscle tension, and motor restlessness. In generalized anxiety disorder, there are psychogenic anxiety, somatic anxiety, autonomic dysfunction and other clinical manifestations. Autonomic dysfunction can be manifested as a foreign body sensation in the throat, a feeling of swallowing obstruction, and other symptoms such as tachycardia, chest tightness, dizziness, headache, dry mouth, flushing of the skin, stomach discomfort, nausea, etc. Many patients will first go to the gastroenterologist. Many patients will first visit gastroenterology or cardiovascular medicine, but ancillary tests usually do not reveal an obvious somatic disease. Due to individual differences, in order to avoid delays, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to clarify the condition and give standardized treatment.