rose
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- DX MND
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- 7/2008
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- Maryland
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- Anytown
OK, I've got yet another question. My soft palate is weak, and I believe my laryngologist said the left (or right?) side is partially paralyzed. It does cause trouble sometimes when I eat, and I've had intermittent problems when I relax after falling asleep where my soft palate just descends. Its like it falls down like a curtain on a stage. Sometimes it wakes me, sometimes its more like I'm just aware that it has done that. It blocks the air as I exhale. I feel it bumping on the back of my tongue. Very occasionally when I'm tired or very stressed it will move down where it partially blocks airflow when I'm awake and just breathing, the harder I would exhale the lower it would go.
Well today, I was wide awake, not overly stressed or tired that I was aware of. I was laying out sunbathing ~ and it did the shut down thing. One time first breath was just the left side came down, second breath it felt like the entire soft palate moved down onto my tongue. A couple more breaths like that ( feeling it on my tongue when I exhaled) and then it just moved back up again. A little while later, like maybe 20 minutes or so, it did it again although it wasn't one sided then. I was so surprised, I didn't even move, was just trying to analyze what had happened as it usually takes place under different circumstances. It was not any voluntary movement on my part that caused it to block airflow or to move back up again. It seems like if it was a spasm I'd feel tightening, and I don't, it just goes bumping down on my tongue, and it blocks me exhaling but not inhaling. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, do you know what it means? thanks,
Well today, I was wide awake, not overly stressed or tired that I was aware of. I was laying out sunbathing ~ and it did the shut down thing. One time first breath was just the left side came down, second breath it felt like the entire soft palate moved down onto my tongue. A couple more breaths like that ( feeling it on my tongue when I exhaled) and then it just moved back up again. A little while later, like maybe 20 minutes or so, it did it again although it wasn't one sided then. I was so surprised, I didn't even move, was just trying to analyze what had happened as it usually takes place under different circumstances. It was not any voluntary movement on my part that caused it to block airflow or to move back up again. It seems like if it was a spasm I'd feel tightening, and I don't, it just goes bumping down on my tongue, and it blocks me exhaling but not inhaling. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, do you know what it means? thanks,
