this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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You could try chewing first?
No, seriously. That shit is dangerous. Food "slowing down" in your digestive system is a shit way to describe narrowly avoiding choking yourself to death.
Ain't nothing so important that you literally make yourself "late" forever. ๐ถ
Sounds like a stricture--narrowing in the esophagus which can cause food to get stuck. Don't know if you could choke to death from it since you can still breathe when it happens.
It's not. I don't have a stricture and the thing in the OP happens to me sometimes. It's like very very occasionally, I swallow weird...and it's almost like a cramp or something odd happens where I get pain from swallowing. It gives the same energy as when you accidentally inhale your own spit, but it relates to your esophagus instead of your lungs.
I was attempting to paint a picture of a food lump barely small enough to pass into your throat, but not enough to make it into your stomach and imply that a very small increase in size or contour could stop it earlier. (ie. asphyxiation)
Does that not track?