When you eat something solid, especially if you ate a lot and ate quickly, sometimes hours later you will feel something at the top of your throat, and by coughing can regurgitate a small piece of whatever it is you ate back into your mouth.
In the hours after the meal you have been breathing, talking, eating and drinking other items *after *the item that was coughed back up. How is it possible for this bit of food to be at the top of your throat and able to make it way back into your mouth with other food and drink going after it into your stomach?
About a year ago I ate some fresh carrots and radishes I bought at the local farmers market. Even though [I thought] I washed them well before consuming, they made me sick as hell.
More than 16 hours after I ate them I vomited and every single last chunk of those vegetables came out. Now where the hell were they sitting for 2/3 of a day?
Indeed. If you are regurgitating stuff from further down than the stomach, it’s another level of bad news.
It sounds like what happened here (in the case of the carrots) is that the pyloric sphincter (bottom end of the stomach) went into spasm and stayed shut, preventing the stomach contents from moving into the intestines - stomach stays full and the general sensation is bloating and sickness - and vomiting is the body’s eventual response to the problem.
I have an issue with my esophagus (extremely low motility) and this happens sometimes. I suspect it was in the esophagus, and not properly pushed down into the stomach.
Things can hang out in the esophagus, especially with older esophagi, which may have some scarring, some dysmobility, even some pouching. One may or may not feel a lump “in their throat” until it’s either swallowed down or regurgitated up. And other food/liquids may slide by without managing to dislodge it for some time.
Or so swallowing studies and upper endoscopies have shown.
[As an anecdote, since no one asked, when I was a kid (7? 8?) and I had my tonsils removed and I was in a hospital for the first time (not counting my birth :)), I was so scared and sad, and to this day I constantly remember my father making me laugh: “What did one tonsil say to the other? Get dressed honey, we’re going out tonight.”
I still say variations of that to friends scheduled for surgery. Does everybody know that one?]
No, I had tonsil stones when I was younger and this is quite distinctly eaten food. Per QTM’s note it must have been chilling in the esophagus or someplace before it dropped into the stomach.
I know what you mean, do you suffer with neck muscles at all, It could be a weird spasmy thing, or silent reflux is something else sore throats often? someone mentioned the whole other world of ick, ever looked at the weird fungi looking aftermath of a tonsillectomy?? I looked and ugh just ugh I had to stay put, I couldn’t leave :eek:
