Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Covid-19

1…745746748750751…919

Posts

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've just got a new batch of lft. The last ones were up the nose jobs . This lot are nose and throat.
    Can anyone tell me how to stop or lessen the gagging reflex?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @B3 … I too have a very sensitive gag reflex and have found it’s impossible for me to do the tests without gagging and retching several times … I’ve not found a way around it so I just put up with it. Sorry 😞 
    OH has no problem at all, jammy so and so 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oh dear. That's not what I wanted to hear🙁
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'm the same. I can gag just cleaning my back teeth :(. Just have to put up with it.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Try folding your left thumb into your palm, making a fist then squeezing your thumb. It works for a lot of people.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I will try that but it sounds like the coordination you'd need to pat your head and rub your belly at the same time😕
    A couple of Google sites mentioned putting salt in the tip of your tongue but I assume that would bggggr up the test.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I think putting salt on my tongue would just make me throw up 🤢.
    The thumb thing might be worth a try though (can't do any harm).

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Stop taking any tests at all? Time to wean ourselves off them perhaps? 

    We've only taken one test in two years.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Little grandsons fine, just a cough,  35 year old grandson, not same household has got it and has to stay at home because of his job,  not ill at all, just a cough.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Relative in his 30s had Covid a couple of months ago. Now having episodes of acute chest pain, caused by damage to the lining of his chest. However had to go to A and E twice to rule out heart attacks as it was so bad. 
    Its not over yet.
Sign In or Register to comment.