Tight throat/feel like food is getting stuck

This sounds like a case where getting a medical opinion makes sense. You're in the US so cost could be a factor, but checking it out would be safer. My guess is the food scraped the esophageal lining and left it inflamed and irritated, possibly with some muscle spasm making swallowing difficult. The main reason to see a doctor is the small chance of a tear that could lead to infection or bleeding. Otherwise stick to liquids and soft foods while it settles. Even a low chance of something serious is enough reason to get checked. Most likely they'll just watch it, but a doctor is less likely to miss anything, or they might do a scope to see exactly what's happening. Skipping the retatrutide dose for a few days shouldn't hurt.

I'd go see a GI doctor. They might want to scope the esophagus and biopsy the lining to check for eosinophilic esophagitis. Several hours with food stuck is a long time.

You probably have a stricture in the esophagus from your reflux. See your GI doctor because meat and other foods will keep getting stuck and you could end up in the ER unable to swallow even saliva. The doctor can look with a camera and likely stretch it. It may or may not be related to the retatrutide, which slows digestion and could have made the GERD worse.

Maybe your throat needs stretching. My father and my spouse both had that happen to them.

Thanks everyone. I've paused the retatrutide and have a GI appointment set for Thursday.

Glad to hear it. Hope everything goes well. Take good care of yourself.

I've had this quite a bit. Once a piece of chicken stayed stuck for hours and anything I swallowed came straight back up. Ended up sedated with an endoscope used to push it down. Later diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis and now take budesonide which helps. Wouldn't have guessed a link to GLP-1s, but stopping and getting medical advice is definitely sensible. Hope you find out what's going on.