• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    You could try chewing first?

    No, seriously. That shit is dangerous. Food “slowing down” in your digestive system is a shit way to describe narrowly avoiding choking yourself to death.

    Ain’t nothing so important that you literally make yourself “late” forever. 😶

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      1 day ago

      Sounds like a stricture–narrowing in the esophagus which can cause food to get stuck. Don’t know if you could choke to death from it since you can still breathe when it happens.

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        3 hours ago

        It’s not. I don’t have a stricture and the thing in the OP happens to me sometimes. It’s like very very occasionally, I swallow weird…and it’s almost like a cramp or something odd happens where I get pain from swallowing. It gives the same energy as when you accidentally inhale your own spit, but it relates to your esophagus instead of your lungs.

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        21 hours ago

        I was attempting to paint a picture of a food lump barely small enough to pass into your throat, but not enough to make it into your stomach and imply that a very small increase in size or contour could stop it earlier. (ie. asphyxiation)

        Does that not track?