• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t even know how you keep the food in your mouth chewing that long. After a minute most of it has managed to make it’s way to my throat without any effort by me to get it there.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, I never really actively swallow, it’s too painful, I just wait for the food to slide down.

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        13 hours ago

        You should ask about getting a swallowing study done to find out what’s going on because that isn’t normal. It might be an esophageal stricture or spasm that can be fixed.

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          20 hours ago

          It’s probably just that I have a small mouth and throat.

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            13 hours ago

            If they are proportional to each other, you shouldn’t really be able to get more in your mouth than your esophagus can handle. There are some conditions that make the esophagus tense up wrong instead of making peristalsis.