Help, I think I've got a small fish bone stuck in my throat, please tell me I don't need to go to A&E!

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On Thursday lunchtime, I ate some pink salmon (from a tin) and it felt like a small bone got stuck in my throat. I ate more and drank loads of water to try to get it down but it feels like it might still be there. I'm not sure whether it is or not or whether it might have just scraped my throat on the way down.

Do I need to do anything? I'm not eating carbs or sugar atm so I can't try bread (which I gather is recommended to try to get it out) - what should I do? My preference is to leave it tbh and hope it goes away but is that ok or will it rot in my throat and make me ill and smelly? It must have been MINUTE (the width of a sewing needle say and a lot shorter) since I didn't even see it.

Should I gargle with something? What? TIA for any advice.

I would definitely go with the bread - sorry - but it hurts when you have a fish bone stuck!

stuff the diet!

think you should go, would worry about it becoming infected and then swelling up, please go

I had this a few motnhs ago (except I could see the bone so knew it was there). Some brillaint Mumsnetter suggested eating huge mouthfuls of soft bread. As you swallow them they take the bones with you. It worked a treat.

Of course that will not work if what you are feeling is a scratch from a bone which has already gone, I think that is quite common too.

Plain boiled rice is good, especially if you slightly over cook it so it is quite sticky.

Eat little lumps of it, swallowed whole.

Thank you all. I'm really not sure if it's there or not.

Don't know about you, but our GPs surgery has a minor illness nurse who is generally easy to see - if you have one they would be able to see if there is anything there in the first instance?
It may have simply scratched your throat on the way down. Vinegar would disolve it if still there - try gargling with some of that?