Re: Miserable Stomach Pain
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:25 pm
Wish I could tell you. There are some posters who say they've trained themselves to do this. Me? The natural place for my tongue (both when I'm awake and when I'm asleep) seems to be in that position. When I was at 9cm, I think the tongue was trying unsuccessfully to keep the pressurized air out and once it started to get into the mouth, the pressure sort of forced my tongue down to the bottom of my mouth. Even now, if I'm awake when my pressure hits 8/6 I can feel that pressurized air trying to force its way into my mouth and force my tongue down.Resister wrote:Is there a way to master this while sleeping? I usually fall asleep with my tongue in place, but it flops back in the night.robysue wrote:
- Sleep with your tongue touching the roof of your mouth right behind your top front teeth. When the tongue is in this position, it helps keep air from getting into the mouth. Once air is in the mouth, there's a tendency to swallow it.
It's a creepy feeling actually: It starts at the back of my tongue---maybe the back of my rather largish tongue starts to collapse back into the airway to start the process. And the back of the tongue encounters the pressurized air, which is of course, designed to help push that back of the tongue out of the airway and back into the mouth where it belongs. But I think what happens is that the back of my tongue also gets force DOWN onto the bottom of my mouth, leaving a small gap above it where the air gets in and continues to slowly press the rest of my tongue down to the floor of my mouth.
For what it's worth: When this happens, there's a certain psychological reaction that makes me WANT to open my mouth to let some of that excess air out. But opening the mouth is a huge mistake because then the air comes GUSHING down into my mouth from the back and as soon as I close my mouth I've got instant chipmunk cheeks with no place for that air to go except to be swallowed into my stomach.