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I have started to choke spontaneously on my own saliva. Anyone else?
Aging Well | Last Active: Apr 5 11:27am | Replies (99)Comment receiving replies
That is truly scary. Thanks so much for your insight. My symptoms are not severe just have that coughing that we all do across our lives if something goes down the wrong way. With age and across the past year or so it is much more spontaneous and just happens with saliva and not when drinking as before. I will get it diagnosed and hope for the best. Thanks you.
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My symptoms exactly like yours. It’s not often that I choke on my own saliva just once in a while now. I hardly ever choke when eating meaning something goes down the wrong way. Just that spontaneous chocking on my own saliva. Very annoying especially when people are still Covid sensitive. I usually have water around alas sipping usually stops it right away.
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The excess saliva was just very annoying. What was a little scary was seeing a total of four doctors to no avail before a dermatologist suggested that the endoscopy somehow triggered the salivary ducts to 'overproduce' and the gastroenterologist prescribed the gylcophlyrrolate. For anyone dealing with this, one way to test if it's a salivary issue is to drink astringent liquids like cranberry juice or water with a lot of lemon juice. And, oddly, drinking lots of water helps though it doesn't help one sleep without a few bathroom in the wee hours (no pun intended but not a bad one).
After the endoscopy, not my first one, my mouth was extremely dry and drinking a liter of water didn't seem to help. So I too think the endoscopy caused thus as it started with 12 hours after the procedure.