• cmhickman358@thelemmy.club
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    7 months ago

    We’ve always called this “French Fry Syndrome” in my family, when you go to swallow a huge handful of fries and they do that super slow slide all the way down and it’s painful as hell

  • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Or me the other day when I Inhaled my own spit in my otherwise empty mouth, sending me into a coughing fit, which made everyone around me look at me like I had COVID instead of just having an inability to function at a basic level.

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        7 months ago

        If it really happens that often, maybe get it checked out. Speech therapists also deal with swallowing disorders, which can be a sign of (potentially treatable) neurological conditions.

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      7 months ago

      That’s so horrible. Like inhaling water ain’t that bad, but spit is so hard to get out because of it’s consistency or stickiness or smth. Inhaling coke is pretty awful too cause you get this weird after taste. Ideally you should really only inhale air.

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        7 months ago

        Inhaling coke is pretty awful too cause you get this weird after taste.

        Not sure which coke you’re inhaling, but if the weird aftertaste is kinda reminiscent of diesel you’ve got the good shit.

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      7 months ago

      I think it’s a combination of overstretching the autonomous nervous system and smooth muscles basically leading to a cramp and the fact that the esophagus has a narrow spot in the middle (not a sphincter, just a bit more narrow).

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    7 months ago

    I always figured it was your lower esophageal sphincter (the one by your stomach) kinda, like…spasming when you swallow, and then being seized up when the water tries to pass through, leading you to have to swallow extra-hard and force it through.

    The resulting pain would be from having forced it, and feel like it’s in your chest 'cause abdominal pains can tend to be pretty imprecise.

    But, I know absolutely nothing about medicine or the human body, so don’t take my word for that. These are just the ramblings of a filth-strewn peasant trying to make sense of the world around him.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    7 months ago

    I got “chest freeze” once and it was fucking weird. I call it that only because of what caused it and because I have never known anything like it or heard anyone else have a similar reaction.

    A couple years ago Iwas working as an installer for a wireless ISP, mostly outdoors working on roofs and shit. This was in the summer and we had a helluva time surveying for the signal before we could install the dish and run the cable, hella hot and shit, on our last appointment of the day. We finally get done and leave the site, which was right next to an AM/PM so I stop and grab a couple Gatorades and as soon as I got back in my truck, just slammed one down. Fucker was ice cold and after I took a couple chugs, it was like a donkey kicked me in the chest. It hurt so bad. But only for like 30 seconds, like a brain freeze headache but in my chest. Shit was weird as fuck and sucked.

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    7 months ago

    Water in your lungs is no laughing matter. Laughing will actually make the pain worse.

  • Syd
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    7 months ago

    That’s a hiatal hernia.

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    7 months ago

    Yeah what is that, your body trying it’s best to give you a hernia or what?

  • cum@lemmy.cafe
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    7 months ago

    Weird I’ve never had that on my chest. I’ve had it in my throat when I’m lying on weird angles, like my side. Of course that’s very easily avoidable lol.

  • kratoz29
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    7 months ago

    Bruh, can we even experiment this willingly?