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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Has anybody ever choked in the restaurant, in any restaurant
you've been in like bad?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, the.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Have to.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Do people ever?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What is it called when you're choking but it's like
you can still breathe, but it's like stuck down here?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We don't, I don't know what it's called. That's normal,
not normal.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
So something's lodged in.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What do you call that? Yeah, because you can still breathe,
like you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You don't have to be like like literally choking to
death something.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
All right, very good, very good? Yeah, all right, I'll
call you later. Yeah, he's coming, seth, he's coming.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
He was just making sure we got that spin in.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, but what is that? So there there was was it?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was Kimmel and Damon, Matt Damon. Did you see this?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So Matt Damon shows up at Jimmy Kimmel's house. This
is last night, No, no.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No summer hiatus, isn't he?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't, I don't know when it was story? Yeah,
so he was, Yes, he was just telling a story.
So Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon shows up at Jimmy Kimble's house.
Matt Damon is famished, and he starts eating ribs and
a piece of rib gets stuck and he's choking on it.
But when I read it, he like, I thought he
(01:36):
was like choking choking because they said they googled and
were watching YouTube videos how to do the heimlick right well,
how to get how to get it dislodged. And I
was like, if if you're choking, that wouldn't be the case,
so it has to be. And they did try doing
the heimlick, but they said the food was too far
down that they couldn't get it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So is that just having something lodged?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
So, I don't know if choking you're up here, yeah,
and you can't breathe, right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So that's when you have to do the heimlick. Is
when you're choking and you can't you can't breathe. I
don't know that I've ever heard of somebody getting somebody
getting food stuck down here and you can still breathe,
but you still have food stuck.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Because I told you last week that I was trying
to bury myself in the refrigerator because I was dealing
with something and do with my family to get worried.
But it was higher up. I wasn't choking on it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't know that you told us, Yeah, he said that, Yeah,
did we get he said?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
He basically like was was right facing into the refrigerator
because he didn't want his kids to see that he
was having trouble breathing because I wasn't choking.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
But did you have food stuck?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It wasn't as low as your emotion.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, I don't know where to motion on myself. They
just kept saying that it was lower. This is God,
but this will end up going somewhere. I didn't Christian,
when you find me somebody who's had like food stuck
between here and here? Like, what is this from Adam's apple? No,
it'd be lower than that. You just like you're just no, no, no,
(03:07):
but like where your stern is, where your sternam is?
Will you find me somebody that's had that?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Please?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Eight six six to Elliott eight six six two three
five five four six eight.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And for how long was this?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
They said they.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Were googling and watching YouTube videos for an hour, hour
and a half hour and a half.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Mine was a couple of minutes. And it felt like forever.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Did it feel like you had a rock stuck in
your in your in your throat, but not in your.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Throat like in your chest.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, it felt like for an object. I can't say
it was a rock because it maybe there was a
little bit of texture to it, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just no, no, no, but just it hurts, like if
you ever swallow an eye, then you start to panic.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, but you're breathing.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You're still panicking. You are panicking, Yeah, but you shouldn't
be well maybe after an hour and a half, Yeah,
because you're you're rational in that moment.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, it's been an hour and a half. No, I
think he's watching YouTube video at the get go. I
think he still had to be a little bit freaked.
I mean, I'm sure the beginning he was. At the
beginning he was.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But they were like we settled in and we were
watching videos on how to get this thing unstuck.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
But we've all kind of come to thought we were
choking on something and you know this, but you're here,
that's up here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Not down here. Yes, sometimes like if.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You get something caught in your throat, yes, then then
it's you get very it's.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Very nerve wrapping.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Heard it on the radio.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I remember I told you I one time had to
dig my hand into the back of my throat to
pull a piece of steak out.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, horrible because I couldn't breathe.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
No, I'm definitely familiar as recently as last week with
the sensation of.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Having something in here.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You can still be yes, so there you shouldn't be paned,
but you are. Though Still you're like, why isn't this
going down?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Sometimes if I take too big a bite of something,
it'll it'll like you can feel it moved down.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
By fight and you're like, that was too aggressive of
a BikeE.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, And it hurts when it's going down, like I mean,
not bad, but you can feel it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh, it's uncomfortable. Where am I going? Line two? Hi
elliot the morning? Does this mean?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
This is a tony from Waldorf?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes, sir, all right?
Speaker 7 (05:21):
What you're the What they're actually talking about When the
food gets stuck below your windpipe but not quite to
your stomach yet, it's called a.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Food bowldless I get stuck a food what.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Bullus? B o l I s a bolus? Where?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah? What happens is that you have either like you said,
it's too aggressive of a BikeE or you can have
an irritation or inflammation like acid reflux, to where whatever
food you eat just doesn't pass through very easily. And
there is an easy way to dislodge it that they
(06:04):
probably didn't even notice.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Say it and say I'll say it, say it, say it.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
The dislodge is about the selson.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now that's not what I was looking for.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I've actually had. I had a piece of steak stuck
in my throat for the better part of about nine
or ten hours.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
New challenge.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Nine hours did you go to the house, Well, what
are they going to do with the.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
More than he could have done?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
He was I had it at dinner. I had it
at dinner, and I tried. My wife was a nurse
at the time, and she understood what it was. And
I could not drink, I could not vomit it up,
I could not chuck fluid and force it down. And
after about two hours at the house, we realized, yeah,
I need to go to the doctor. I went to
(07:01):
the hospital and they told me, okay, we can try
this method, which is take an alka seltzer, put it
in water and let it dissolve. And as it's dissolving
and the bubbles are there. You drink it, but you
have to act like you're choking back vomit and force
(07:22):
the bubbles to push the food down to others.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Is there a YouTube video?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But you can breathe, right, you can. You can breathe,
no problems.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
You can breathe. But yes, it is painful, it is uncomfortable.
It is Yeah, it can't be a little scary if
you haven't dealt with it before. I've had this off
and on since I was a teenager.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is that because of how you eat? Or is this
like a condition?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
It's a condition, No kidding. It's the easiest way to
tell you the condition is eoe because if I tell
the condition that I can be able to pronounce it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's okay, all right, very good. You've been very helpful.
Thank you, sir, Thank you. I've never even heard of
that nine hours. But I did like one thing that
he said.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's below the wind pipe, so that's where like it
when it gets stuck up here, it's blocking your wind pipe.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So it's below the wind pipe, but not to the stomach.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Now, if you had to point to your wind pipe
right here, you think that's accurate.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, because there's like a little a little flap that
goes back and forth. Looks like the top of like
an eighteen wheel er exhaust thing where.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
It goes back and forth. I thought it was a
little lower.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well you think your wind pipe is down here?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
You tits.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Titties, timeler, damn sauces?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Where am I going? Bye?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Seth?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Hi Elli in the morning? Hello, Hello, yeah, Hi.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is Ashley. How are you good?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Have you had this before?
Speaker 8 (09:06):
So I had. I was eating fish that had bones
in it, and you know the little tiny they're so tiny,
and it got caught in like my my esophagus and
it was it was painful and it could breathe still,
but it just I don't know, And I was googling
(09:26):
how to like get it out and everything, and it
was saying stuff like eat bread or something something like
it could stick to and.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
All that stuff.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
But it was like a couple hours before like I
felt okay again, it was bad.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You didn't try you didn't do anything where you drink
alca seltz but you force it back like you're trying
to choke down a vomit.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
No.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
No, I was at a party and we were drunk,
and so it's I got oh, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
All right, very good, very good. Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, Tyler Dana writes, this always happened to me, my dad,
my nana. It's hard boiled eggs or French fries.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So oh boy. But wait, do they have that eoe?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
The eoe we have talked about before.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't remember it.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
But no, they just say that this that just happens
to that a lot of people are telling similar stories
and say I do not suffer from EOE.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But it happens to them. Yeah, hi Joe in the morning.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Good morning class. I'm here to educate.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yes, sir, I have EOE.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
And if anybody else don't doesn't know they have it,
they need to go get that checked out because it
could potentially kill you.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, but people are saying, though, but some people are
saying that they don't have EOE and they get this
all the time.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No, it's it's it's something to do between the esophagus
and the stomach. And for me it was the esophagus.
The inside of my esoptas looked like a vacuum cleaner tube.
Oh yeah, and uh, I mean you could be out
and about and if you know, you're real hungry, you
take too big of a bite and you know it's
(11:13):
it can be scary. And the scariest part is you think, oh,
I'll just drink some water to drink it down. You're
actually drowning yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, but the water goes down, right.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
No, nothing goes down, Not anything like the guy that
said that he had his stuck in there for nine hours.
That's happened to me before. And you just swallow your
own saliva. It blocks everything.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, it's bad news. And if anybody has it, I
mean it's there should be a support group for it.
You got to get that checked because I'm I'm on
a pill now and it's nonexistent. I have no more
problems at all.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And so the pill helps. It has helped with that.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Yeah, I take a twenty milligram pill every other day.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
No big deal.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Out out to doctor Halberston a capital digestin.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Very good. I appreciate it. I'll probably see him soon.
All right, very good.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hi is this me?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Hi, hi Elliott?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I had a meatball surgically removed from my esophagus.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Shut it up?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Wait, so it was stuck below the wind pipe but
before the stomach, and you had a meatball wedged in there.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, it was an Italian wedding soup and kind of
it was looped up. Then it just got stuck there.
And about nine hours later I ended up in the
hospital and they had they basically took the camera the
camera scope and just kind of pushed it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Down, just shoved it right in.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now, but like this is everybody that's saying, like I
deal with this problem like once a year of like
between chicken, Like I know my foods that bother me.
So it's chicken, rice, sometimes shrimp. I've had it with
the Brussels sprouts before.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But I don't understand how is how is when you
say it bothered you, Like, you can eat everything, but
if you eat rice, it balls up in your in
your in your in your throat if.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I eat too much of it in one bite, like
like even if it's something that you would consider like
a normal bite and it's like kind of matted together,
it gets madded together and then it kind of gets
stuck in there.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So is is a meatball the only thing that you
had that surgically removed the.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Meatball.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yes, but I've I mean I've had like nine hour
days where where I've had to like try to figure out. Usually,
like my go to is to start with coke, a
bottle of coke because like that's got good carbonation. Tried
to make myself throw up before, and that's worked a
couple of times. The alka seltzer thing has become my
new go to. You basically just chew a half a
(14:03):
take a half a taba out the seltzer, PLoP it
down there, and then pource some water in. And it's science.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Because I'll tell you the woman that called, he thank you, sir,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The woman that called she nailed.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It in terms of how to handle it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Little pieces of bread, but not like a not like
a big bite of bread, but like break off little pieces.
Although if you got a meatball wedged in there like
the breath the bread. But Matt Damon was eating burnt
ends and they managed to dislodge that. But they said,
if you eat little pieces little pieces of bread, like
(14:40):
chew them up, they go down. It'll pull it or
push it whatever one it is, down the down the chute.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's counterintuitive.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's totally because you would think the bread's just gonna
load up on top of.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It, or had they just worked at it so long.
They're saying the bread helped it, but it was just
a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Like I get it if you told me bread for
like fish bones, where it's something that would like the
bread would grab it and yellow meatball doesn't. But but again,
he was eating burnt ends. How hungry was he No,
Kimmel said he was.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
He was famished. When he got to the house.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It just literally everybody had already been there and he
walked in and just started housing ribs.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So that's less than number one. What don't eat that way?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That's the only way I eat.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I'm gonna be that guy when they're putting him under anesthesia.
This guy has a meatball stuck in his throat.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Honestly, you know what shocked me when he said it
was from Italian wedding suit. Because those meatballs are small.
You should be able to just half the time. I
don't even chew them, Like, give me a meatball. Hi
Elliott in the morning, Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Who's this?
Speaker 10 (15:59):
Hey, David to feel man, I'm glad to hear so
many people are I'm not the only one affected by this.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
But I went.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Almost my entire adult life thinking that I was just
eating too fast, and I mean multiple times a week,
sometimes several meals in a row, and uh, you have
to remind yourself, don't panic, because you can still breathe
and then the normal kind of gurgly. It depends how
(16:27):
much fluid you've tried to put on top of the obstruction.
And so it's you have to remind yourself because when
you have food stuck in your throat, your your your
common solution is wing to wash us down with some water.
It took too big of a bier and so you
pour water or whatever on top of it, and it
(16:49):
literally just fills your throat up until you get too
far and you can't breathe, and usually that's when you vomit.
Dear God, absolutely agonizing. But I'll tell you why. Look said,
I went my entire adult life. I'm almost forty now,
and it's been like two years ago. A cousin of mine,
who's ten years younger than me, unbeknownst to my side
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of the family, was experiencing the same thing. Went to
the doctor. They diagnosed her with whatever acid reflux until
her you knew to take this medication for well. Turns
out half of my entire blood family has been affected
by this their entire lives, right, and it just was epivot.
So like my mother she admitted to throughout like childhood,
(17:32):
she'd excuse herself from the dinner table silently, just kind
of like rubbing her throat and we didn't know, but
she was going in the bathroom, did make herself throw up,
and it was And anyway, I take an Alma prizole
pill once a day for the past three years and
it hasn't happened since.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Good for you, all right, dude, Hey, I appreciate it,
Thank you, And then let me grab line five.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Hi Elliet.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
The morning, Ellie, I saved my buddy's life at a
Longhorn steakhouse. He got a little overdelling chomping on a steak.
We uh, we had taken some some gummies before heading
out and he was just going to town. He shot up,
knocked the barstools over, hit me with that universal choking look,
and I sprung into action.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Baby.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
He tried, he tried to like walk it down with
the water and it created like that layer of water
above the steak. I had never given the heimlick to anybody,
and I just jumped up from behind and started, you know,
giving it to him.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Whole restaurant.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You could have heard a fork drop.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
And he spout up this water like old guys there
and yeah, it was stuck in there. Called the paramedics
and he, you know, twenty minutes go by. He goes, oh,
I think I worked it up.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
We're good, Yeah, excellent, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah, I missed my brother's wedding receptions.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
I had a piece of steak stuck in my throat.
Has anybody ever choked in the restaurant, in any restaurant
you've been in like bad?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, the.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Have to.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Do people ever?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What is it called when you're choking but it's like
you can still breathe, but it's like stuck down here?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We don't, I don't know what it's called. That's normal,
not normal.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
So something's lodged in.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What do you call that? Yeah, because you can still breathe,
like you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You don't have to be like like literally choking to
death something.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
All right, very good, very good? Yeah, all right, I'll
call you later. Yeah, he's coming, seth, he's coming.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
He was just making sure we got that spin in.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, but what is that? So there there was was it?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was Kimmel and Damon, Matt Damon. Did you see this?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So Matt Damon shows up at Jimmy Kimmel's house. This
is last night, No, no.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No summer hiatus, isn't he?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't, I don't know when it was story? Yeah,
so he was, Yes, he was just telling a story.
So Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon shows up at Jimmy Kimble's house.
Matt Damon is famished, and he starts eating ribs and
a piece of rib gets stuck and he's choking on it.
But when I read it, he like, I thought he
(01:36):
was like choking choking because they said they googled and
were watching YouTube videos how to do the heimlick right well,
how to get how to get it dislodged. And I
was like, if if you're choking, that wouldn't be the case,
so it has to be. And they did try doing
the heimlick, but they said the food was too far
down that they couldn't get it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So is that just having something lodged?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
So, I don't know if choking you're up here, yeah,
and you can't breathe, right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So that's when you have to do the heimlick. Is
when you're choking and you can't you can't breathe. I
don't know that I've ever heard of somebody getting somebody
getting food stuck down here and you can still breathe,
but you still have food stuck.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Because I told you last week that I was trying
to bury myself in the refrigerator because I was dealing
with something and do with my family to get worried.
But it was higher up. I wasn't choking on it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't know that you told us, Yeah, he said that, Yeah,
did we get he said?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
He basically like was was right facing into the refrigerator
because he didn't want his kids to see that he
was having trouble breathing because I wasn't choking.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
But did you have food stuck?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It wasn't as low as your emotion.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, I don't know where to motion on myself. They
just kept saying that it was lower. This is God,
but this will end up going somewhere. I didn't Christian,
when you find me somebody who's had like food stuck
between here and here? Like, what is this from Adam's apple? No,
it'd be lower than that. You just like you're just no, no, no,
(03:07):
but like where your stern is, where your sternam is?
Will you find me somebody that's had that?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Please?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Eight six six to Elliott eight six six two three
five five four six eight.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And for how long was this?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
They said they.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Were googling and watching YouTube videos for an hour, hour
and a half hour and a half.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Mine was a couple of minutes. And it felt like forever.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Did it feel like you had a rock stuck in
your in your in your throat, but not in your.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Throat like in your chest.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, it felt like for an object. I can't say
it was a rock because it maybe there was a
little bit of texture to it, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just no, no, no, but just it hurts, like if
you ever swallow an eye, then you start to panic.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, but you're breathing.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You're still panicking. You are panicking, Yeah, but you shouldn't
be well maybe after an hour and a half, Yeah,
because you're you're rational in that moment.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, it's been an hour and a half. No, I
think he's watching YouTube video at the get go. I
think he still had to be a little bit freaked.
I mean, I'm sure the beginning he was. At the
beginning he was.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But they were like we settled in and we were
watching videos on how to get this thing unstuck.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
But we've all kind of come to thought we were
choking on something and you know this, but you're here,
that's up here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Not down here. Yes, sometimes like if.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You get something caught in your throat, yes, then then
it's you get very it's.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Very nerve wrapping.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Heard it on the radio.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I remember I told you I one time had to
dig my hand into the back of my throat to
pull a piece of steak out.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, horrible because I couldn't breathe.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
No, I'm definitely familiar as recently as last week with
the sensation of.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Having something in here.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You can still be yes, so there you shouldn't be paned,
but you are. Though Still you're like, why isn't this
going down?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Sometimes if I take too big a bite of something,
it'll it'll like you can feel it moved down.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
By fight and you're like, that was too aggressive of
a BikeE.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, And it hurts when it's going down, like I mean,
not bad, but you can feel it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh, it's uncomfortable. Where am I going? Line two? Hi
elliot the morning? Does this mean?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
This is a tony from Waldorf?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes, sir, all right?
Speaker 7 (05:21):
What you're the What they're actually talking about When the
food gets stuck below your windpipe but not quite to
your stomach yet, it's called a.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Food bowldless I get stuck a food what.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Bullus? B o l I s a bolus? Where?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah? What happens is that you have either like you said,
it's too aggressive of a BikeE or you can have
an irritation or inflammation like acid reflux, to where whatever
food you eat just doesn't pass through very easily. And
there is an easy way to dislodge it that they
(06:04):
probably didn't even notice.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Say it and say I'll say it, say it, say it.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
The dislodge is about the selson.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now that's not what I was looking for.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I've actually had. I had a piece of steak stuck
in my throat for the better part of about nine
or ten hours.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
New challenge.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Nine hours did you go to the house, Well, what
are they going to do with the.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
More than he could have done?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
He was I had it at dinner. I had it
at dinner, and I tried. My wife was a nurse
at the time, and she understood what it was. And
I could not drink, I could not vomit it up,
I could not chuck fluid and force it down. And
after about two hours at the house, we realized, yeah,
I need to go to the doctor. I went to
(07:01):
the hospital and they told me, okay, we can try
this method, which is take an alka seltzer, put it
in water and let it dissolve. And as it's dissolving
and the bubbles are there. You drink it, but you
have to act like you're choking back vomit and force
(07:22):
the bubbles to push the food down to others.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Is there a YouTube video?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But you can breathe, right, you can. You can breathe,
no problems.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
You can breathe. But yes, it is painful, it is uncomfortable.
It is Yeah, it can't be a little scary if
you haven't dealt with it before. I've had this off
and on since I was a teenager.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is that because of how you eat? Or is this
like a condition?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
It's a condition, No kidding. It's the easiest way to
tell you the condition is eoe because if I tell
the condition that I can be able to pronounce it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's okay, all right, very good. You've been very helpful.
Thank you, sir, Thank you. I've never even heard of
that nine hours. But I did like one thing that
he said.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's below the wind pipe, so that's where like it
when it gets stuck up here, it's blocking your wind pipe.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So it's below the wind pipe, but not to the stomach.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Now, if you had to point to your wind pipe
right here, you think that's accurate.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, because there's like a little a little flap that
goes back and forth. Looks like the top of like
an eighteen wheel er exhaust thing where.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
It goes back and forth. I thought it was a
little lower.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well you think your wind pipe is down here?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
You tits.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Titties, timeler, damn sauces?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Where am I going? Bye?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Seth?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Hi Elli in the morning? Hello, Hello, yeah, Hi.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is Ashley. How are you good?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Have you had this before?
Speaker 8 (09:06):
So I had. I was eating fish that had bones
in it, and you know the little tiny they're so tiny,
and it got caught in like my my esophagus and
it was it was painful and it could breathe still,
but it just I don't know, And I was googling
(09:26):
how to like get it out and everything, and it
was saying stuff like eat bread or something something like
it could stick to and.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
All that stuff.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
But it was like a couple hours before like I
felt okay again, it was bad.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You didn't try you didn't do anything where you drink
alca seltz but you force it back like you're trying
to choke down a vomit.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
No.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
No, I was at a party and we were drunk,
and so it's I got oh, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
All right, very good, very good. Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, Tyler Dana writes, this always happened to me, my dad,
my nana. It's hard boiled eggs or French fries.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So oh boy. But wait, do they have that eoe?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
The eoe we have talked about before.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't remember it.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
But no, they just say that this that just happens
to that a lot of people are telling similar stories
and say I do not suffer from EOE.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But it happens to them. Yeah, hi Joe in the morning.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Good morning class. I'm here to educate.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yes, sir, I have EOE.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
And if anybody else don't doesn't know they have it,
they need to go get that checked out because it
could potentially kill you.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, but people are saying, though, but some people are
saying that they don't have EOE and they get this
all the time.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No, it's it's it's something to do between the esophagus
and the stomach. And for me it was the esophagus.
The inside of my esoptas looked like a vacuum cleaner tube.
Oh yeah, and uh, I mean you could be out
and about and if you know, you're real hungry, you
take too big of a bite and you know it's
(11:13):
it can be scary. And the scariest part is you think, oh,
I'll just drink some water to drink it down. You're
actually drowning yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, but the water goes down, right.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
No, nothing goes down, Not anything like the guy that
said that he had his stuck in there for nine hours.
That's happened to me before. And you just swallow your
own saliva. It blocks everything.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, it's bad news. And if anybody has it, I
mean it's there should be a support group for it.
You got to get that checked because I'm I'm on
a pill now and it's nonexistent. I have no more
problems at all.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And so the pill helps. It has helped with that.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Yeah, I take a twenty milligram pill every other day.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
No big deal.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Out out to doctor Halberston a capital digestin.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Very good. I appreciate it. I'll probably see him soon.
All right, very good.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hi is this me?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Hi, hi Elliott?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I had a meatball surgically removed from my esophagus.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Shut it up?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Wait, so it was stuck below the wind pipe but
before the stomach, and you had a meatball wedged in there.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, it was an Italian wedding soup and kind of
it was looped up. Then it just got stuck there.
And about nine hours later I ended up in the
hospital and they had they basically took the camera the
camera scope and just kind of pushed it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Down, just shoved it right in.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now, but like this is everybody that's saying, like I
deal with this problem like once a year of like
between chicken, Like I know my foods that bother me.
So it's chicken, rice, sometimes shrimp. I've had it with
the Brussels sprouts before.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But I don't understand how is how is when you
say it bothered you, Like, you can eat everything, but
if you eat rice, it balls up in your in
your in your in your throat if.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I eat too much of it in one bite, like
like even if it's something that you would consider like
a normal bite and it's like kind of matted together,
it gets madded together and then it kind of gets
stuck in there.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So is is a meatball the only thing that you
had that surgically removed the.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Meatball.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yes, but I've I mean I've had like nine hour
days where where I've had to like try to figure out. Usually,
like my go to is to start with coke, a
bottle of coke because like that's got good carbonation. Tried
to make myself throw up before, and that's worked a
couple of times. The alka seltzer thing has become my
new go to. You basically just chew a half a
(14:03):
take a half a taba out the seltzer, PLoP it
down there, and then pource some water in. And it's science.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Because I'll tell you the woman that called, he thank you, sir,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The woman that called she nailed.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It in terms of how to handle it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Little pieces of bread, but not like a not like
a big bite of bread, but like break off little pieces.
Although if you got a meatball wedged in there like
the breath the bread. But Matt Damon was eating burnt
ends and they managed to dislodge that. But they said,
if you eat little pieces little pieces of bread, like
(14:40):
chew them up, they go down. It'll pull it or
push it whatever one it is, down the down the chute.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's counterintuitive.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's totally because you would think the bread's just gonna
load up on top of.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It, or had they just worked at it so long.
They're saying the bread helped it, but it was just
a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Like I get it if you told me bread for
like fish bones, where it's something that would like the
bread would grab it and yellow meatball doesn't. But but again,
he was eating burnt ends. How hungry was he No,
Kimmel said he was.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
He was famished. When he got to the house.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It just literally everybody had already been there and he
walked in and just started housing ribs.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So that's less than number one. What don't eat that way?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That's the only way I eat.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I'm gonna be that guy when they're putting him under anesthesia.
This guy has a meatball stuck in his throat.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Honestly, you know what shocked me when he said it
was from Italian wedding suit. Because those meatballs are small.
You should be able to just half the time. I
don't even chew them, Like, give me a meatball. Hi
Elliott in the morning, Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Who's this?
Speaker 10 (15:59):
Hey, David to feel man, I'm glad to hear so
many people are I'm not the only one affected by this.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
But I went.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Almost my entire adult life thinking that I was just
eating too fast, and I mean multiple times a week,
sometimes several meals in a row, and uh, you have
to remind yourself, don't panic, because you can still breathe
and then the normal kind of gurgly. It depends how
(16:27):
much fluid you've tried to put on top of the obstruction.
And so it's you have to remind yourself because when
you have food stuck in your throat, your your your
common solution is wing to wash us down with some water.
It took too big of a bier and so you
pour water or whatever on top of it, and it
(16:49):
literally just fills your throat up until you get too
far and you can't breathe, and usually that's when you vomit.
Dear God, absolutely agonizing. But I'll tell you why. Look said,
I went my entire adult life. I'm almost forty now,
and it's been like two years ago. A cousin of mine,
who's ten years younger than me, unbeknownst to my side
(17:12):
of the family, was experiencing the same thing. Went to
the doctor. They diagnosed her with whatever acid reflux until
her you knew to take this medication for well. Turns
out half of my entire blood family has been affected
by this their entire lives, right, and it just was epivot.
So like my mother she admitted to throughout like childhood,
(17:32):
she'd excuse herself from the dinner table silently, just kind
of like rubbing her throat and we didn't know, but
she was going in the bathroom, did make herself throw up,
and it was And anyway, I take an Alma prizole
pill once a day for the past three years and
it hasn't happened since.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Good for you, all right, dude, Hey, I appreciate it,
Thank you, And then let me grab line five.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Hi Elliet.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
The morning, Ellie, I saved my buddy's life at a
Longhorn steakhouse. He got a little overdelling chomping on a steak.
We uh, we had taken some some gummies before heading
out and he was just going to town. He shot up,
knocked the barstools over, hit me with that universal choking look,
and I sprung into action.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Baby.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
He tried, he tried to like walk it down with
the water and it created like that layer of water
above the steak. I had never given the heimlick to anybody,
and I just jumped up from behind and started, you know,
giving it to him.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Whole restaurant.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You could have heard a fork drop.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
And he spout up this water like old guys there
and yeah, it was stuck in there. Called the paramedics
and he, you know, twenty minutes go by. He goes, oh,
I think I worked it up.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
We're good, Yeah, excellent, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah, I missed my brother's wedding receptions.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
I had a piece of steak stuck in my throat.
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