Oh man, I can sympathize with Dr.'s not really hearing you! I am sorry they sent you for an x-ray - if our symptoms are the same (and they do sound that way), I would say an x-ray to see if something is stuck in your throat is a waste of time. For me, it feels as if it is happening in my esophagus/lung area - not my throat - and, it doesn't feel like anything is stuck there - it almost feels like a spasm.

Anyways, I appreciate the response to my post and I hope you get somewhere with your Dr.! Look forward to hearing from you and I will be in touch if I find anything out as well.

Take Care,
Melanie

I hope this information is not too late for you to know.

I have been experiencing this exact same thing for three years. I get a fluttering sensation in the middle portion of my chest, this is immediately followed by what I would describe as a catch in my breath and at the same time forced me to a whopping cough to set things right again. I have been through all kind of tests, CXray and echocardiogram but it turns out to be negative and no one has been able to tell me.

On November 2014 my doctor finally found out that I have an AFib (Atrial Fibrillation), after they put me in a holster monitor for one month. My episodes (fluttering & irregular heart beat) could last up to 10 to 15 hours. I was then prescribed a medication called Amiodarone (Cordarone), 200mg, 1-tablet daily and my episodes was totally gone until the month of April 2015.

On May 2015, my episodes came back again. Again I went back to see my Cardiologist and she advised me of considering an ablation surgery and she referred me to an Electro physiologist. Needless to say, I winded up having an ablation surgery on July 17, 2015. I am now on my second week of recovery but I am still having short episodes. I have been advised by my Electro physiologist that it is normal to have these episodes after the ablation and it takes a period of six months to completely heal and eventually the episodes will go away. All I do now is to wait and see.

Mine is more at the side of my throat not the base... but since you're saying the base it makes me think THYROID right away ...
I do have something similar but not exact... the only thing I can recommend (and I'm not a doctor this is just what I've used) by the way do you have any other symptoms that you might not see as related???
-cold hands/feet
-hard time losing weight
-depression
-nervous
-memory loss
-brain fog
I know these are vague symptoms but they can help point to an under active thyroid

Magnesium (natural calm or tri-magnesium)
***Iodine (tri-iodine) *** this would be my main recommendation
Omega 3 (cod liver oil)
Cell salts (bioplasma, mag phos & ferrum phos)
D3
A good liquid calcium supplement (herbal healer brand)
Celtic salt (a pinch in every glass of water I drink)
Dr. Christopher parasite cleanse

Well this is all pretty odd I think. I have received emails from others who have also just recently started having this symptom. You don't suppose we're subjects of some covert experiment or maybe a terrorist attack do you? ':) Someone just wrote me suggesting it might be a migrating parasite, anyone else ever consider that? Sounds weird but I won't discredit anything. I've learned some pretty strange things about health and related issues over the last few years, anything's possible. My X-ray, by the way, came back clear, as I knew it would. The fluttering (no not a blub blub blub, more like a flippy flippy flip flip, really fast) seems to subside when I increase my water intake and even moreso when I take my vitamin C powder.

Mine was debilitating to say the least. Finally was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. Meds stopped them. Ugh.