I was choking on popcorn.. anyone else with this problem????

May 11, 2008

Morning my friends. I just got up and woke up earlier than usual. I was

hurting and my stomach is upset and have terrible allergies making my stomach

sick from the post nasal drip.. Sorry. And I feel like a pile of crapola.

Anyway, a question. I choked last night on some popcorn. A piece of it went

into my trachea and I think into my lung. OUCH. I coughed and coughed so hard

I was turning purple... scared my little 6 year old too. My husband who is

usually not very interested in anything about how I feel, got alarmed. He ran

over there hollaring " are you Ok " ? Well, I never completely shut off my airway

and after about 5 minutes of horrible deep coughing it came up I think. It was

a very tiny piece luckily.

MY Question- Do any of you notice at times that you don't swallow the right

way?????????????????????????????

I believe that this fibro or whatever it is interferes with my swallowing

muscles. I find that almost everyday I almost choke on something like soda, a

piece of food, or my own saliva. It is not everytime I eat or drink, but is

happening more and more frequent. Last night was the most severe and the

closest I have come to really cutting off my airway. Hubby of course ran over

and started hitting me on the back. (not the right thing to do but he was

trying to help).

DO YOU THINK THIS BEAST OF A DISEASE affects our swallowing at times?

Of course, the heimlich maneuver whould have been the thing to do IF I stopped

moving air. I was still moving air of course because I was coughing.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

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