It sounds like TMS equivalency to me. I too have what feels like a big lump in my left side throat about the Adam Apple level, and its also painful like a bad sore throat you get when you have a bad cold. I’ve had a lump in my throat actually since about 1995, back then it was also really sore...
I know this thread is two years old now, but I have the EXACT same thing, and thought I'd share for any other lurkers sufferning the same thing. It started in about 1995 after I was served divorce papers. After seeing a bunch of different doctors, the last doctor back then said I had 'Globus...