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Okay! I hope someone can tell me what this feeling was. Today I was cooking chicken for the family and of course, when I cook, I pick. I have to taste it before I feed it to the kids, right? Anyway, I guess I wasn't paying attention to the chewing. I got this severe pain in my chest, I took a sip of my husbands Pepsi thinking it would make me burp and the feeling would go away, well the pain got worse and lasted about 4-5 minutes, then I burped two or three times and it went away. During those 4-5 minutes, I thought I was having a heart attack, the pain was from my chest into my throat, I felt like I couldn't breath, I broke out in a sweat, it was terrifying.

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That is food getting stuck from too big of a bite or from not chewing it enough, when this happens, number one, do not drink with it to wash it down and secondly do NOT drink carbonation like Pepsi to wash it down, it will cause the horrible pain you described. Drinking to wash it odwn will make it feel worse, it is like it is all backing up

This is the feeling you get when you have a PB, it is horrible and terrifying the first time you experience it, I remember very well, You get a look like a deer caught in headlights.

Remember to chew and small bites and slower, picking at food is a hard habit to break after so many years of doing it, but those times you pick can be the worst for us bandsters , we seem to forget about our bands and the rules of chewing and small bites.

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I can relate, it's the worst pain, but wash it down with pepsi...owe...that's like slow death. I'm sure you'll never do that again.

Everything I put in my mouth...I think about it first, cause I've learned the hard way.

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I'm sorry you had such a bad time...I bet that was really scarry...thank you for sharing...I'll put that on my "Do not Do" list.

I'm glad you feel better :)

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the nutritionist says she gets calls all the time about people that have done that your not suppose to drink carbonation it will stretch the pouch and gas gets trapped and can't escape easier said than done when you can't breath but its like when something is stuck like a drain and you keep trying to plunger it the pressure gets higher and higher until its goes down or backs up more thats horrible.

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