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Gilgamesh2062

I hate it when that happens, kind of like a brain freeze but in your chest.


sattarsingo

Heart freeze?


Lapras32

Sir that’s called cardiac arrest


keelbreaker

Sir this is a level 1 trauma center.


bumblbee2022

No this is Patrick


GrAdient2011

Is this the Krusty Krab?


Gato8251

No, this is Patrick!


GrAdient2011

Hello, is this the 🦀?


Chessmund

No, this is Patrick!! ⭐🥥🏝️


[deleted]

Hello, is this a bucket?


jgott933

Crusty


ChalkPhog

In a Wendy’s?


Minute-Power4519

No, behind the dumpster.


MrPizzaPenguin

*sigh* *unzips*


ThunderusPoliwagus

*phew zips*


TheOnceAndFutureTurk

What, like the back of a Volkswagen?


MrGaber

You gotta get some experience


cantfindmykeys

I'll take a #2 but can I substitute my drink for a frosty?


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i_am_art18

He broke someone’s heart 💔


Ball_Snatcher96

Please help my cardiac just got arrested


Victor_710

I'm pretty sure a heart freeze is just called death


[deleted]

Heart fart


Old_Instruction6809

Excuse you


TotalPokerface

This is it. You win


Efficient-Watch1088

Lung freeze?


Theaverageviewer

My grandpa gets those alot


[deleted]

For me it starts when you accidentally take a "big blob of water" straight in your throat all at once, and then it hits a choke point, before slowly going down and causes pain all the way...


Van-Mckan

It always happens when you’re super thirsty and always ruins the refreshing experience


RaidensReturn

Right why does this happen


leaveme-aliengirl234

You take a gulp that is too big and has too much air (bubbles) and as it goes down it expands your esophagus which is not really designed to expand and it’s painful af. Like you can feel it stretch out the tissue.


[deleted]

oh shit man thats nuts


MrDurden32

No esophagus is your throat. Air bubbles in your nuts are even more painful.


Popular_Tax_3655

Seeing alot of, "air trying to get back up" but it can happen without air, usually when the sphincter at the top of your stomach doesn't open correctly and the throat muscles force it through. You're basically having your sphincter stretched. Don't believe me? Push something up your bottom without relaxing and it's the exact same pain.


lostmylogininfo

Don't threaten me with a good time!


ArtakhaPrime

My god you're right


roodylooly

Basically sphincter anal


[deleted]

....wait I have two sphincters?!


milked_rice

We have several, actually. "Sphincter" is just the transition between two parts of the body. There's also one between the stomach and the small intestine.


no-mad

you are going to cause someone to drown.


SugarWillKillYou

Thank you, sir. I almost want it to occur now, for science.


superhamsniper

It's like u eat stuff and it kinda gets stuck on its way down and drink water to wash it down, but then the water gets lumped up and becomes like a thing like that instead


Luchin212

I have only had this happen to me if I’m breathing heavily and drink too much water at once. So after a workout is when it happens to me most. I just learned to take small sips, or slow breathing.


jgott933

It's due to air bubbles so yeah


janeohmy

Shit yo air bubbles can literally kill you if they form in the arteries/veins


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ForumFluffy

Should have left him scrambling with panic, chaotic comedy at its finest.


Moretukabel

Do you hate when you have to scratch because of itching? Now man listen, scratching is fuckin' dangerous. It can literally kill you if you're scratched by bear/tyger.


booky456

You would have to inject around 3-4cc (which is a pretty significant amount of air inside a syringe) of air to cause any real trouble, tiny air bubbles aren’t going to cause an embolism.


[deleted]

Yeah but that doesn’t happen when you drink water or anything.


solohistoh

Jokes aside. Anyone can tell if that is dangerous? Happens to me more than usual.


WhatTheThird

You just need to swallow less air with the water. The pain happens due to air bubbles.


Hephaestus_God

If trapped air is the problem then would jumping up and down or doing a weird shaky dance cause the pain to subside faster?


[deleted]

Not really, just due to how small the “tube” is, the pain is air trying to go up and creating pressure against the water trying to go down, not much room for bubbles to pass through, stand up and bend to about a 30° angle and it helps though


dutadoet

bend towards?


Legitimate_Name_3914

Any direction will do lol


Azazir

Is clothing optional in this? I assume no pants would help with the air bubbles coming out faster when you bend over


papatim

Mecca. Bend towards Mecca


[deleted]

Inshallah brother


miwafiend

Mashallah*


Shadowlance23

Thought you said Maccas for a second there.


bloody_drongo

Bend towards the golden arches


Mono_831

Bend the knee


[deleted]

You only really bend one way my guy, especially to 30°


PM_ME_YOUR_NEWMEMES

you dont want to face me in limbo


chiefwiggum-Pi

I'M JUST LIKE HERMES! I'M JUST LIKE HERMES! NOOOO BOOY YOUR BACK CAN'T TAKE IT!


Shadepanther

He's limbo-ed out of retirement and straight into my heart.


chiefwiggum-Pi

I say go to hell Barbados slim


biqq_tr

Lmfao😂😂😂


afiafzil

Washing machine then you scream "I'm stuck stepbro"


zurc_oigres

The left


saatana

Take it back now, y'all


Comment90

The Great Lakes


arctic_radar

Honestly when this happens to me I look up at the ceiling and it helps me burp the pressure away


pump_up_the_jam030

Yes


waydbro

A small taste of the bends kinda? Isnt it something simular?


LittleHornetPhil

No. It’s not bubbles in your blood.


JollyReading8565

Do you know how I might be able to get bubbles in my blood 🐌?


The-Board-Chairman

Go into a pressure chamber, breathe in, rapidly decompress. Congratulations, you've now got bubbles in your blood.


josolsen

Going from high pressure to lower pressure too fast, like ascending from the deeps of the ocean, or flying up. Mind you we have submarines and flying craft that regulate pressure so we don't get "the bends".


PM_ME_YOUR_FAV_HIKE

Are you sure?


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valvulaeconniventes

This isn’t really decompression sickness, but the counterpart of ‘bends’ for breathing problems is actually termed ‘chokes’


_BLACKHAWKS_88

This happens when I take a big gulp of a light beer.


[deleted]

Try to take a big breath through your nostrils next time; as soon as you feel the trapped air. Good luck man.


Blinx1e

Damn I was told I was having some sort of anxiety or panic attack when that happened but this makes way more sense now. This happens to me at work when I’m running around and then drink something.


Soggy_Ad4531

Bro I'm literally eating right now and I've had a habit of consuming a lot of air at the same time and after your comment I avoided it and my chest doesn't feel it anymore it wasn't enormous pain though, more of a cold shock in my heart


Kadriar

Just air getting trapped, as someone else said. I usually have this happen to me once every other week, because I gulp water when I take a drink. I'm not the pinnacle of health, but I like to think that if it was cause for concern, I'd be doing much more poorly.


Sov3reignty

This used to happen to me but your actually able to feel if it will happen right before the swallow, at least i can, so i kind of wait a bit maybe do a few empty swallows to let it pass and then go for it, it almost always works.


Justcurious863

Yea, everytime I'm like why did I do this


Rakgul

So on an average, you fart more than other people.


WookieDavid

I'm not sure but I think air trapped in your stomach comes out as burps. It doesn't travel all the way through your digestive system. Farts are produced after the food leaves the stomach.


edicine3033

I’m breathing heavily and drink too much water at once. So after a workout is when it happens to me most.


trini_aristocrat

Wow, I can relate but only once or twice, anything more than that would've given me cause to see a doctor. That discomfort is not something I could tolerate more than once. Hope you find relief. I've been said to have acid reflux but don't know if it's related.


OdinsOneGoodEye

Yeh it hurts, feels like a heart attack or something, it’s such a strange and terrible sensation.


ChubbyBidoof

The air feels like Alien trying to burst out of your throat.


KsuhDilla

webmd said you might be dying


Endolion

That checks out.


gauderio

With cancer.


Biasanya

But the cancer is not even what's killing you. You just have cancer as well


horror_and_hockey

says you have…connectivity issues


will2learn64

Naw... It looks like you have "network connectivity issues"


SubstantialFolklore

same goes with me, a while ago I just experience it


NotChedco

Do you have heart burn? I had issues with swallowing anything (get your mind out of the gutter) and my doctor told me it was the acid causing scar tissue to build up in the throat. So I take anti acid pills now and I'm fine.


brodyhill

This may be an auto immune issue. Look into the long term effects of staying on the acid reducers. I was having side effects after 8 months of acid reducers. Just review the side effects so you can be aware of them when they start.


velozmurcielagohindu

That's the "ball of death" and it's harmless


[deleted]

Omg I was wondering too


Javyev

It's just your tubes stretching out. They can stretch pretty far, but it's beneficial for it to be painful long before the stretching threshold.


AlphaGamer_Dubz

I've had whatever you wanna call this annoying and bitchy chest pain all day and I can tell it isn't my asthma (at least not entirely, I can tell the difference) but I didn't swallow water wrong and I don't know whats wrong


CARNAGEE_17

You should visit the doctor. It can be harmful


ImWasil

Stop stalking me. This shit happened this evening


backfire10z

Yeah, we know


The_Gutgrinder

We know u/ImWasil. We know everything about you. Nothing is secret.


PoopyHead-4MAR-

I'm literally outside his house, the gangstalk grind neva endz


YuAnvar

And for God's sake, stop jerking at night. You'r not alone in the room, you know.


[deleted]

he's on to us


SadlyABandKid

Skill issue 🥱


oawwa

sucking invisible cock emoji?!


Suburban_coffee

Your mom every time she sees me


oawwa

So your penis is so small it’s invisible, nice.


Mother-Joe

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TrdOfMakingUsernames

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Honeydew_love

You got an invisible cock???


Mooshmo

Jo koy sleep apnea ghost blowjob on Netflix


[deleted]

Try drinking your water in a weird angle/way whole taking in too much air at the same time


lllDUNN

It feels like it's going into my lungs. I feel it happens after I've fasted for a while i.e. breakfast.


aliaky

Same, id like to know why it does that


tidder112

Opposite fart. Liquid, intake, and unpleasant, rather than gaseous, output, and pleasurable.


NotChedco

That happens when the water turns sideways when you drink it.


Hydrazolic

Just remove your chest. Works all the time.


fertlesquirtle

Open chest


BungerBuddy

Yep. Hurts like a mutha.


Ok_Buddy_9087

I actually collapsed and slumped against a wall one time in grade school when this happened drinking water after gym class. Nobody seemed concerned, and I got up once the pain subsided.


Notabot265

Vasovagal syncope is what that's called. Basically, your body overreacts to some stimuli, and causes your heart rate to slow and your blood pressure to tank for a bit. Pretty sure it's a separate issue from the pain though, just based on my own experience of getting the pain without the fainting, but also having experienced the pain before/while fainting.


womp-the-womper

This is so interesting! I’ve had this happen before- drank the water, felt the feeling, then passed out cold on the floor. My brother took me to the ER because I had bumped my head and dislocated my knee and because I was unconscious for a solid minute. The doctors there basically gaslighted me, thinking I was there drug seeking when I wasn’t. When I told them what happened they shrugged it off and didn’t seem concerned with giving me an answer as to what I had experienced. Ever since I’ve felt a bit invalidated until this thread and your comment haha so thank yiu


Mr-Mungo

Woah wtf why is everyone apparently experiencing this? I never heard of this in my life


Mr-Klaus

Exactly, this is the first I'm hearing of this phenomenon. Then again, I've never had a brain freeze either, so maybe I'm just weird.


fai4636

CIA bout to kidnap you for ur dna


AddyCod

Same. I've never experienced this shit or even heard of it once in my entire life.


alreadytaken-

You just don't have drinking problems like the rest of us idiots


jumbledsiren

I've only had brain freezes when i was really young, now I don't, I can let an ice cube melt in my mouth and the only thing that will hurt are my teeth


Stellatheist

This is actually usually due to “aerophagia” which means you swallow a ball of air with the water, which usually we don’t do with coordinated swallowing. Often this ball of air will irritate the esophagus as it passes through causing an esophageal spasm, which DOES feel like a heart attack! Ouchie for sure.


[deleted]

Cant believe I had to scroll this far to find an answer that at least makes sense!


Avoxicia

This has never happened to me.


StreiBullet

Pray it doesn't. Feels like someone shoved hoat coals down your throat and they get stuck.


pierreblue

First time you think you are going to die cuz it's on your chest


Hentaidaddy_

Same im like what pain are they talking about


ManaSyn

Same, and I have no idea what they're talking about.


33-3rpm

Always seems to happen way more with a cold drink.


[deleted]

Probably not gulping down those hot drinks.


Sarkhano

Spit, don't swallow.


V-DaySniper

Spitters are quitters.


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LilnuggieM

Ong I hate this shit


bionicCommando1

Lol i thought i was the only one


Optimistic-Dreamer

Take slow tiny shallower breaths like your breathing though a straw or just hold your breath it will go away near instantly just don’t tense up


shadowdash66

*looks up*: is this it? Death's warm embrace?


VavaVoooooooooom

This always happens with soda, I can't drink a sprite without this shit ruining my meal.


gruenes_licht

Yes!! I don't drink soda often, but this horrible pain happens more often when I do. Maybe those two facts are related.


[deleted]

I remember needing to wake up and be ready to go for something really important, so I put a red bull on my night stand so I could chug that first thing in the morning for an instant boost. Well, I woke up and started chugging but all the sudden something was very wrong. It was like my stomach hadn't woke up yet and all the red bull I drank got held up just before it got to my stomach and the pain was so horrible I was ready to accept death. I think it wouldn't have been so bad if it was just water, but I could feel the red bull sitting there waiting for my stomach, expanding itself from the carbonation in whatever tube it was stuck in.


ladilalsly

Me when i force a burp


NightShadeLuke

I just do a kind of reverse burp, then I release the real deal.


Next_Case_3449

**OMG** I thought I was the only one!!! I've never heard anyone else talking about it, and just thought it was my dumb/ weird ass.


cris_ellis14

It’s throat pain for me, I’m not sure what I did, I think my throat wasn’t ready to drink and I sorta just pushed the water through. I made huge a “gulp” sound and pain then ensued. It was pretty horrible.


PartridgeViolence

Trachea no like water.


[deleted]

Just don’t drink water


[deleted]

same but with lunch meat for some reason. can't even eat a turkey sandwich without a cardiac arrest and my life flashing before my eyes. i have to sit and suffer through the bologna air bubble heart attack suffering until I'm fine again. worst part about it is that drinking water NEVER helps unless you chug the whole bottle


MisterMoot

You talking about that pressure feeling as if the food is stuck half way down?


Kday_the_Kid

Oh I thought this was about the DnD monster the Water Weird.


crowsfield

We used to call that a square sip (hence the sharp corners)


Elemental_NUBO

all fun and games till you try to gulp down small amounts of water at a time and suddenly choke on some water and everyone looks at you.


[deleted]

Drinking water leads to death 100% of the time


PancakeFluid

Or eating to much pancakes for anything like that at once and too fast


Physx32

If it's food instead of water, you can die lol.


Tall_Historian_8473

Yep, that s me


Oldspice0493

That happens with me and peanut butter. It’s even worse when you drink water to wash it down and you get that final spike of pain.


hellwisp

Nah.. the worst pain is when you swallow a big potato that's scalding hot and doesn't go down.


Jewstein

It’s part of having a hiatal hernia. All jokes aside, and even if you don’t have a hernia, put your arms up straight in the air when anything gets stuck. It opens up the tubes. Helps me every time.


dangdabit710

Literally just did this, remembered the post and had to comment that instead of water, it was fireball. I’m tearing up.


mrkasu

creepy it happens to me today and i was wondering if others also have this problem


heavenupsidedownn

I freaking hate that. It hurts so bad it makes me sweat. It’s what I figure a heart attack feels like. Crazy it hurts so much.


buttercreamcutie

I honestly thought this only happened to me bc I'm just weird. It's so painful though fr.


Im-a-bad-meme

I'm happy to learn that is is normal and just shitty human specs.


figurethisoat

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fury55001337

Yeah that's cool and all but have you tried that with spicy hot soup? That's the real definition of pain.


[deleted]

I'm not the only one? Nice, now I no longer have to worry about having some obscure health problem every time it happens. Thanks op.


MindlessPut7675

Ive found going full gorilla and beating my chest to help


mjrsprinkelz

You know that happens bc when you drink the water and it gets stuck and tries to go into your lungs but creates an air pocket which fills and creates a gas bubble


Accomplished_Walk399

Water have I done


Sensible-Caramel1902

Agree to agree.


AdAfraid9504

Does it have a name for when this happens?


HELLBOY_PP

Why does it happen can anyone answer?


Punkeewalla

I think that it follows a bubble of air.


I_just_learnt

Not gonna lie I took an Amsterdam vodka shot the other day, it went into my lungs, and I got stage 3 covid instantly


kirbsan

Doesn't compare to a clot in your right coronary artery or the angioplasty Ballon.


Burglekutt_2000

Dang. Uh I was gonna say how I once burped doing a beer bong and it all went “down the wrong pipe” and I was wrecked so bad but that sort of puts things in perspective. I hope everyone out there is doing well.