I suppose this is kind of gross, but the title should have been sufficient warning.
Since I was in the first or second grade, I have always had the unique ability of easily regurgitating my stomach contents. Note: we’re not talking bulemia here – imagine a small child eating a pizza, thinking “mmmmm… yummy.” and then bringing it back up for a few more chews, like a cow. No gagging, nothing down the throat, no unpleasantness whatsoever, just a matter of tightening the stomach muscles in a certain way.
This is a very nice ability to have if I have just consumed something that tasted a little off – just off-load it with no fuss and all is good.
Since this rarely comes up in normal discussion with my friends and co-workers, I have no idea whatsoever how common this ability is.
Can any of you do this? Do you know anybody who can?
Any medical name for it?
My dad used to do this fairly frequently but I don’t think it was really on demand, more of a chewy burp. Though I have to admit that I never actually asked him about the fundamentals. My sibs and I teased him about chewing his cud (between that and calling him Baldylocks, I’m surprised he let us live to adulthood).
In the pro-wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat (which by the way is a great film, even for non-fans of wrestling like me), we see a guy named Darren Drozdov who wants to become a wrestler. His gimmick is that he can vomit whenever he wants to, and Vince McMahon gives him the wrestling name “Puke.” We don’t see him do it onscreen (thankfully), but as I recall, we do see the somewhat horrified faces of people watching him do it.
As for me, I kinda suspect that I could, but I’ve never tried and have no plans to.
I can’t do it myself, but I know a man who can… One of my friends told his girlfriend about his ‘party trick’ after they’d been going out for about a year and a half. She got this horrified look on her face as if she were thinking ‘I’ve been kissing that mouth all this time?’. He then decided he’d show everyone by regurgitating part of the steak he’d eaten onto the lollipop he was eating at the time. Actually, I’m amazed his girlfriend stuck with him after that one :D.
No idea why I feel the need to share this, but my particular er…skill in that area is the swallow-back. Which is when you regurgitate your dinner INvoluntarily and it isn’t the time or the place (f.i. office, bus etc.) and then…well make up the rest.
I think most people could do this too if they tried, but I’m particularly good at it. Well, everyone has something that they’re good at…
I am able to do this from my teens. Exactly as stated above. Tightening the stomach muscles in a certain way. And a “dose” of food comes up. I have always wondered if this is harmful in any way, to the esophagus for instance. Sometimes admittedly I lose some of the food I ate out of regret I ate it, for instance junk food, or too much alcohol. My weight is stable my health seems fine. But this tightening of the abs thing is impossible to explain. I just do it like as easily as whistling. Weird stuff.
