Sometimes I malfunction and wamt to swallow but I cant. After a few tries it suddenly works. I usually bug when I breath heavily through my nose.

  • wellDuuh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This happens more frequently than you thought.

    Even right now, if you try to swallow saliva multiple times as fast as you can, consecutively; you will hit a “bottleneck” :)

    Oesophagus, operates on a rhythm, of which is initiated by the back of your tongue (where tonsils hit)

    But, oesophagus, having mind of its own (involuntary); does not accept initiated rhythm, if it’s “out of timing”

    This “timing” is dictated by the way muscle contract and relax as they push saliva down into your tummy. Nasty yet brilliant ain’t it?

    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      I just tried this and I’m absolutely mindblown. I can get about 3-4 swallows before my body just refuses another

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        So you’ve never drank a big glass of water that takes more than four swallows?

        The reason your body won’t do more than 3-4 swallows is there’s only so much saliva it can produce per unit time.

        • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
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          5 months ago

          It’s not the lack of saliva to swallow. After a certain point the top of my throat feels like it locks up and won’t let me even attempt a swallow.

          I haven’t tried it with water but when drinking normally I’m not trying to swallow continuously as fast as possible.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This post was a good deal more innocent than I thought it was going to be.

    And quite interesting.

    It’s a bit of a nightmare though how sometimes it’s the inability to swallow that sends people into care when they age or get crook.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
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      5 months ago

      I too had dirty thoughts when I read the title. My father had alzheimers and the inability to swallow was the point were the disease had progressed to where there was no real quality of life you could point to at all.

  • Radioactrev@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    You may want to look into a condition called EoE also known as Eosinophilic esophagitis. If that’s the problem, you’ll certainly want to see your doctor.

  • Nakedmole@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You should get an endoscopy of your esophagus. A narrowed esophagus can have several reasons.

    • Reflux

    • Food intolerance

    • Fungal infection