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Upon reading your description, I was thinking hiatal hernia, which is a thing my Dad has. If he tries to hard to swallow it down, food "bounces." Please get it checked out, definitely. Dad started having a Tums before every meal and it helped, but then aggravated his kidney stone problem. My Dad is wearing out*, as you can probably tell, but this problem started out fairly early.