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Okay, this is going to be weird but has anyone else experienced this? Everytime I eat (and I mean EVERY TIME!) as soon as any food reaches a certain area of my esophagus (i think and not my stomach since it feels higher up) I am prompted to start sneezing! Not one time - I will sneeze sometimes 8-9 times! lol

Really weird. I had somewhat the same phenomenon before VSG when I got choked. I would sneeze once after getting choked but this is ridiculous! ha!

My husband now just braces himself and looks at me like, " Here we go again!" Ha!

Anybody else had anything like this happen to them?

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No and I've been reading WLS boards for many years now. However, be glad in that your "full trigger" is very pronounced! Good for you! :)

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Yes, this definitely happens to me if I eat too much. Not sure how it's all connected, but it does happen. I try to be very careful to not eat to that point as I know it's too much.

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Nope, but everyone is different! I get the hiccups when I'm full, and I've gotten a runny nose a few times as my "you've gone too far" signal.

I have my own little sneeze thing, though: If I cough I always sneeze afterwards, two or three times. It makes those summer colds and bouts of bronchitis so much fun!

~Cheri

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I sometimes cough if I eat too fast, but it seems to have subsided. Does it happen if you drink or is it just food?

Jane x

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In the beginning I used to get the hiccups or a runny nose. Now just the sneezing, and I only notice it with food, not Water.< /strong>

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Okay, this is going to be weird but has anyone else experienced this? Everytime I eat (and I mean EVERY TIME!) as soon as any food reaches a certain area of my esophagus (i think and not my stomach since it feels higher up) I am prompted to start sneezing! Not one time - I will sneeze sometimes 8-9 times! lol

Really weird. I had somewhat the same phenomenon before VSG when I got choked. I would sneeze once after getting choked but this is ridiculous! ha!

My husband now just braces himself and looks at me like, " Here we go again!" Ha!

Anybody else had anything like this happen to them?

YUP! Everytime i drink milk! I sneeze my face off sometimes up to 20 times!

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In the beginning I used to get the hiccups or a runny nose. Now just the sneezing, and I only notice it with food, not Water.< /strong>

My coughing only occurs with food, not water too. If I eat dry food like bacon it can be quite irritating, especially if I am hungry and eat quite quickly. Although it has settled done massively recently. I emailed my surgeon and he did not know why this was happening and suggested I should get some upper GI test done but I have not got round to it yet.

Jane x

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And here I thought it was only my strange family that had that problem. :thumbup:

Both my grandmother and I will sneeze after we get choked on something. Everybody is always teasing us about it. I hope I don't have the "sneezing if eating to much" syndrome too after surgery!! :001_tongue:

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I don't sneeze, but for the longest I was like WHERE IS MY SLEEVE? B/c my food would quickly settle in my esophagus not in my sleeve. So I kept thinking he operated on my esophagus by mistake. I was quite a ways out of surgery, maybe 2 mos, when I finally ate a small whole meal and it settled immediately, happily in my sleeve instead of on top of it.

I guess the top entry to the sleeve was really swollen for a long time. Now food only gets 'stuck' (not really stuck but feels like it) if I eat meat that is too tough or so.

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Hic cups for me when I am full

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