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Scared to sleep and choke on saliva, health anxi.

AndiCalifonia
AndiCalifonia
I was diagnosed with bronchitis a few weeks ago, felt better, then started to feel like my cough moved to my larynx, my voice box. I've been to the Dr. a few times since then. Post nasal drip and inflammation in my voice box makes me feel like I could choke on my saliva, when I'm asleep and all the time. My anxiety is pretty high right now. I'm sure if there was anything really serious wrong (like something that would cause me to choke in my own saliva) my dr would have mentioned it. Wow. I hate medical anxiety.
deleted_user
deleted_user
No worries. i had my tonsils out a few years ago and they had to take out uvula too(little hangy down thing in the back of your throat) because it got elongated from from snoring and would swell up when I got tonsillitis. You don't really need it anyway, but, it kinda freaked me at first, because when it's not there, liquids and sometimes saliva would make me cough alot at first because it wasn't there and they would hit the back of my throat, especially fizzy drinks like soda. you will not choke, trust me. If you were gonna choke you would have done it already. Drink lots of water to break up and expectorate mucus during bronchitis. If its viral, just over the counter stuff, antibiotics will do no good for viral infections, If bacterial, I'm sure your doc gave an antibiotic and perhaps Rx decongestant. You're gonna be fine.
deleted_user
deleted_user
You would never be able to make enough saliva to choke on it, so try not to worry. And even if you could, the saliva that "pooled" in the back of your throat would awaken you and you would just swallow it down before it accumulated that much. Just because you are sleeping, that doesn't mean that you aren't aware of your bodily sensations....
and that much saliva would cause you to stir and wake up and swallow it down.

But if it makes you feel better, just sleep on your side. Then it will all just drool out onto your pillow, which is what happens to most of us on a normal night..lol.