Let’s say you’re having lunch with a friend of yours, and when you take a bite of your sandwich and swallow, you start to cough uncontrollably. You manage to drink some water and get it under control and your friend explains to you that your sandwich “went down the wrong way”. What do they mean by this and what actually happens when this occurs?
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Similar to this, sometimes when I swallow some food or drink, it’s like my throat wasn’t “ready” to swallow and it _hurts_ going down.
Definitely did not go down the wrong pipe, but _something_ odd happened.
In my mind I imagine that my esophagus is an elevator and somehow the food rawdogged it directly down the shaft, instead of waiting for the elevator to arrive.
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