Most of the responses aren’t medical diagnosis speculation, though.
This is a food board, so OP’s can fairly assume that at least some people will have familiarity with Indian restaurant food ingredients that goes beyond “too spicy!” or “must be the heat!” or “too much spice!” — which are comments people who don’t know much about Indian food might make about it.
OP cooks Indian food at home, and has traveled to India multiple times (Iirc OP might have an indian son in law, unless I’m confusing her with someone else from Chowhound).
There are specific ingredients that go into specific dishes, and OP eventually shared what she had eaten so others might be able to shed light on whether those might be throat irritants.
What I’m wondering is why people who don’t have any or enough familiarity with the cuisine in question to actually help figure out which ingredients or preparations might be at fault would engage on this thread in the first place — either with ignorant catch-alls or by mocking OP’s question and subsequent engagement by others. There’s no compulsion to be on a thread you’re not interested in or have nothing to add to.
(And this is from someone’s whose first response was to ask more questions and then suggest an allergy panel via a doctor.)
By the way, these kinds of questions (medical-adjacent of various varieties) get asked all the time on this board, with people offering their thoughts and suggestions in a non-expert capacity.
For some reason someone has taken objection only to this one.
