Anyone else choke and thought this is it.

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Finished evening meal last night (salad-baked spud and small omelet) -had a few mouthfulls of water -sat there talking then ambleded down to computer room where I belched and coughed -Something came up and stuck - couldn't swallow -couldn't cough and couldn't breath -Got to loo and wife turned up and belted me on back -it worked as I got a small piece of lettuce up and spit it out. I could breath again -That was frightening.
I just thought you choke on something you just ate that didn't go down.- Nope.:eek:

Thinking about it -if wife hadn't been there I could have been a gonner I really couldn't breath.
 
Yeah I have, I've had food lodge in there and you panic as you're gasping for air, thankfully it's always managed to dislodge via continuous swallowing and getting some water down there. Horrible when it happens, always make sure you chew rigorously :p

On a separate note waking up with a night terror thinking you can't breathe is also rather pleasant. That's obviously mental rather than physical however.
 
did it many years ago with a softmint at 6th form (we were allowed to eat sweets)
Popped it in and it got stuck, tried to cough quietly, nope, again, nope, slowly started to panic
15 secs or so later started to make that "hooping cough" noise, whole class turned to look at me
Mate by my side smashed me on the back and it dislodged

Always makes me wary on similar sweets when eg in the car, cant imagine how that would end up
 
I'm sure there must be a way to give yourself some sort of whack on the back. Maybe you could just fall over backwards.

I have actually thought about this though - i've been known to eat too quickly and choke on my food.
 
I had a brutal cold once that would put me in a coughing fit where I literally couldn't breath. It is really frightening stuff.
 
Not quite the same , but if i ear something bulky like meat/potatoes and eat too fast sometimes it can get stuck in the chest and it causes these spasms(i think), can still breathe but its so uncomfortable. The worst time i had it was in a restaurant and it lasted about ten mins, truely horrible.
 
I almost died last year.

Woke up in the night couldn't breathe at all airway just totally closed off for seemingly no reason.

panic for the first 20 seconds, kneeling on the floor in the hall way for the next 25 seconds pretty much accepted the fact that I was about to die.

felt kinda fine with it tbh, just thought "well now it's my time then"

then suddenly a slither of air was able to get through and a few more tries later I could breathe normally again.

Googling suggested to me that the piece of skin that supposed to stop fluids entering your lungs when you swallow can get so relaxed that it totally blocks your airway.

I'm guessing that's what happened to me, although recently I got put on what seems to be the strongest meds you can get for acid reflux.
seems in my sleep I've been cooking my oesophagus and part of my bronchial tree.

mucus was lining my insides so much I got misdiagnosed with bronchitis and then thought I had COPD when it wasn't going away (Hospital GPs useless it seems)
my actual doctor knew what it was within seconds
 
Yes, scary isn't it. Something went down the wrong way and totally blocked the airway did a huge "HUMPH" exhalation of air and that cleared it I remember

Which reminds me of something I read in a book by a vet a cat was brought in that intermittent episodes of collapsing and turning blue then recovering then happening again well he was brought in for an x-ray which found a pebble or piece of gravel lodged in his airway that would periodically block it completely. Well he was prepped for an operation to remove it but stopped breathing on the operating table and he knew he had seconds to do something or it would be curtains so he grabbed the unconscious cat by the hind legs and swung it round his head round and around and like a bullet it shot out of his mouth and richocheted off the wall. The cat was none the worse for the ordeal
 
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Feel like I can’t breath when I get sleep paralysis sometimes…scary as ****!
But…I’m not even sure if anything changes with breathing or it’s just a ‘dream’
 
Talking to wife about it again today and she thought I was being sick - said if I had know you couldn't breath I wouldn't have smacked you on the back.
Smacking your back or front into a wall was what we came up with today if it happen's again and no one is there.

She was kidding :) I hope
 
I had this as a kid, choked on a bit of steak when I was about 9 or 10 in a restaurant, and to this day I struggle to comfortablly eat food without a drink to hand.

If I have a drink handy I don't give it a second thought.
 
I did a Jimmy Hendrix

Puked in my sleep, woke up suffocating, ran around like a moron then just coughed and could breath. Crazy.

I did off shore survival training for oilfield work and on my 1st time I was upsidedown in the chopper setup 2m underwater and I must have drank half the pool. God knows how I didn't drown but I distinctly remember drinking water. ... Lol sounds ridiculous.
 
Not myself, but my youngest son choked badly when he was starting on solid foods…

I was sat on sofa in the other room when the wife screamed for help, ended up finally getting it (some mango) out after placing him downwards on my knee and several hard slaps to the back, by which point his lips had turned blue.

Really scary stuff and happens so fast… something I hope I never get to experience first person! Glad you are ok OP.
 
Unfortunately, a few times.

Make sure you have adequate water/liquid supply when eating something relatively dry and potentially problematic, e.g. too much peanut butter/nut butter/crackers.
 
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Not myself, one of the kids choked on a green bean when they were younger(8 or so). Grandad was next to him and administered a pounding which eventually brought it up, boy was going blue. :eek::(
 
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