OK, I'm wondering if anyone else has this happen to them. I'll be swallowing stuff and everything is going fine, then suddenly I try to take a swallow and it's like there's some kind of wall at the top of my throat--all the stuff comes back in my mouth and I can't swallow a thing. And no matter what I do, how I tilt my head, etc. that keeps happening. And what I've learned over time is that always ALWAYS some time after this happens (sometimes we're talking even an hour or two later) I give a cough and up comes some solid piece of something that must have been stuck *somewhere* though not where I could feel it--and somehow it keeps me from getting anything else down. These are often little pieces of stuff, not big, but something fairly solid like a hunk of vegetable from a soup I thought I had strained or a hunk of sausage in a sausage gravy that I thought I had pulled all the chunks outof. This just happened and I was eating some commercially prepared guacamole and the thing that I eventually coughed up was, I think, a smallish piece of avocado skin that had somehow gotten in there. If I were swallowing normally, I'm sure it would have gone down with everything else because it wasn't a big piece at all.

Anyone have this happen? Can anyone tell me what's actually going on when that happens?

Nelie