I have read plenty of vaping boards but never posted in the past because I do not have the time to keep up. This time is different because I feel compelled to post due to a very recent horrible reaction from vaping.
Me: I have been vaping for ~2 years. I'm not a newbie at all. I gave up smoking all together over 5 years ago, however I like to vape. My e-cig is a Tornado tank, and the juice is TW's Red Label 36mg nic/Marlboro flavor. I have used the Tornado for a long time, and this juice for at least a year. Some days I vape a lot, others barely at all, and occassionally not at all.
About 3 weeks ago I developed a very pronounced post nasal drip. I though I was coming down with the flu or like. Within a day or two, the post nasal drip became very thick, and it made swallowing difficult. At the same time, I started getting dizziness, blurred reality, and my heart would race. So, I went to my doctor. She said the mucus is not coming from my sinuses, and that I better get to an ENT to figure out what's going on. It took a couple days to see an ENT, I was symptomatic during this entire time. I did vape for about an hour (total) each day, and hadn't put it together yet.
Obviously, I was freaking out by this point. I told the ENT about my symptoms, and he immediately said well your esophagus is ...... off, and to make matters worse, it is upsetting your vagus nerve. That nerve is what would cause all of the dizziness, blurred reality, etc. Plus, you do not have any infection. He sent me down to do a barium swallow to confirm. The barium swallow did confirm the esophagus was not happy.
At this point, I immediately stopped vaping since now I strongly suspected it as the source of my trouble. About 2 days later, my symptoms started to slowly go away.
I did condense the story, since personally I hate reading very long stories. Somehow, vaping really upset my GI system to a point that got really scary. Before anyone thinks it, no I didn't swallow juice, or did anything else out of the ordinary.
The only think that I can think of is that somehow the last bottle of juice was tainted. I don't know. I'd like to hear if anything remotely close to this has happened to others.
Me: I have been vaping for ~2 years. I'm not a newbie at all. I gave up smoking all together over 5 years ago, however I like to vape. My e-cig is a Tornado tank, and the juice is TW's Red Label 36mg nic/Marlboro flavor. I have used the Tornado for a long time, and this juice for at least a year. Some days I vape a lot, others barely at all, and occassionally not at all.
About 3 weeks ago I developed a very pronounced post nasal drip. I though I was coming down with the flu or like. Within a day or two, the post nasal drip became very thick, and it made swallowing difficult. At the same time, I started getting dizziness, blurred reality, and my heart would race. So, I went to my doctor. She said the mucus is not coming from my sinuses, and that I better get to an ENT to figure out what's going on. It took a couple days to see an ENT, I was symptomatic during this entire time. I did vape for about an hour (total) each day, and hadn't put it together yet.
Obviously, I was freaking out by this point. I told the ENT about my symptoms, and he immediately said well your esophagus is ...... off, and to make matters worse, it is upsetting your vagus nerve. That nerve is what would cause all of the dizziness, blurred reality, etc. Plus, you do not have any infection. He sent me down to do a barium swallow to confirm. The barium swallow did confirm the esophagus was not happy.
At this point, I immediately stopped vaping since now I strongly suspected it as the source of my trouble. About 2 days later, my symptoms started to slowly go away.
I did condense the story, since personally I hate reading very long stories. Somehow, vaping really upset my GI system to a point that got really scary. Before anyone thinks it, no I didn't swallow juice, or did anything else out of the ordinary.
The only think that I can think of is that somehow the last bottle of juice was tainted. I don't know. I'd like to hear if anything remotely close to this has happened to others.
