A member asked:

Difficulty swallowing pills they get stuck in throat need to get food after swallow them to get them down what could be cause? i have hypo thyroid.

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Dysphagia: Dysphagia is distinguished as "transfer dysphagia" (problem moving food from mouth to top of esophagus) versus "transit dysphagia" (problem getting food down esophagus ; into stomach). Motility disorders, strictures, ulceration (pill-associated, viral), tumors, eosinophilic esophagitis, spasms, etc must all be ruled out.

Answered 2/17/2014

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