Many Times When I Eat And I Try To Swallow

Many times when I eat and I try to swallow food, I immediately take the hiccups and my food will not go down. It seems to lodge in my esophagus and it is becoming more often my food starts coming back up and when I throw up there is so much phlem in the vomit. Sometimes if I can get a drink of water the food will go down but it is very painful as it goes down. Could this be associated with a hiatal hernia or maybe an esophageal spasm. These episodes seem to becoming more frequent.