Depends on the hospital. There have been a few that were pretty good but most, no.
I scared a radiologist today
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Update: basically, my swallow study was OK. I had one incident of “flash penetration” meaning some of the stuff started to go down the wrong way, but I cleared it easily. It’s common in older people (!). I have a small hiatal hernia (which I already knew about an upper endoscopy a couple of years ago. So I just follow up with the GI doc as usual.
He asked me what bothered me the most (an interesting question), and I said that once I started coughing, it took a while to stop, because it set off my nose running and post-nasal drip. He suggested that I actively try to stop coughing after initially clearing my throat when stuff goes down the wrong way, because most people still have the sensation that something is in their trachea after the stuff is gone, and further coughing does nothing but irritate the area. ENTs call it something like fishbone syndrome - the vast majority of the time that people scratch their throats from swallowing a fishbone, and they end up at the ENT CERTAIN there is still a fishbone caught in their throat, there is nothing there - the sensation lasts for quite a while.
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So I need to learn to stop coughing when I have almost certainly already cleared my throat of anything I might have mis-swallowed. A PSA for anyone who might also sometimes swallow the wrong way.
He asked me what bothered me the most (an interesting question), and I said that once I started coughing, it took a while to stop, because it set off my nose running and post-nasal drip. He suggested that I actively try to stop coughing after initially clearing my throat when stuff goes down the wrong way, because most people still have the sensation that something is in their trachea after the stuff is gone, and further coughing does nothing but irritate the area. ENTs call it something like fishbone syndrome - the vast majority of the time that people scratch their throats from swallowing a fishbone, and they end up at the ENT CERTAIN there is still a fishbone caught in their throat, there is nothing there - the sensation lasts for quite a while.
Fish bone stuck in throat: Symptoms and how to remove one
Getting a fish bone stuck in the throat is not usually a serious issue, but it can cause some complications. Learn about the risks, the symptoms, and some tips on how to remove a fish bone stuck in the throat here.
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