Sneezing and puking

[Veritas]

Just as a matter of interest, and because I wouldn't want anyone to think I only start childish threads, here's my medical/health question:

What's the record number of times you've sneezed in a row? When I've had a really bad cold, I think I've reached 9, but that was a special occasion, with a brief hiatus after five to take a breath.

Puking's a different story and sadly, more frequent for me. Recently my migraines have gotten progressively worse and whereas I used to throw up once in a blue moon, nowadays it's the norm. In recent months it's become routine for a migraine to cause me to have many pukings; my pukage has reached six at one point. I couldn't even stop after I reached bile! :shock:

[Dingfod]

Sneezes? Probably about 5.

Puking? Do you mean heaves? If so, a lot more than six, many of them dry (no bile left).

[Veritas]

Puking means bringing up something at least smooth, but preferably chunky. Bile counts.

[ChuckF]

I got in to some dust last week and probably had 15 sneezes in a row. Was kinda dizzy afterwards.

I don't know about puking. My encounter with food poisoning was probably the worst; after a while, there's just not anything left to regurgitate. I wish I could remember it all.

Not really.

[Dingfod]

I'm asking if they are individual heaves that bring something up, or sequential puking sessions; you know, when you think you are done, but have to puke again. I'm uncertain without additional clarity.

[Shelli]

:vomit:

[Kyuss Apollo]

I seem to be allergic to food. No seriously. Most times when I eat, usually just before I am finished or shortly thereafter my sinuses fill up and I sneeze for about 10 minutes. There is not a definite pattern to it, believe me I have tried to find one. Because sometimes I don't sneeze, though I usually do. And sometimes I'll eat something that I will sneeze afterwards, and next time not.

Do you mean by consecutive sneezes, like "achoo achoo achoo achoo achoo" or can there be a space of up to 15-20 seconds between sneezes?

Because I never sneeze in the former way, but altogether when I am sneezing I can go anywhere from approximately 8 to 25 sneezes in that 5-10 minute period.

[Crumb]

I am disappointed. I thought this thread was going to be about simultaneous sneezing and puking. This is not as exciting.

I did once have the hiccups for 4 hours though. I didn't count how many.

[Veritas]

Okay Dingleberry.

FOR CLARITY:

Sneezing - you're allowed a break no longer than the time it takes to catch your breath; say, the length of a sneeze, before you have to restart the count.

Puking - full retches that bring up stomach matter within the extended period of sickness, lasting not longer than one hour. Retches successfully suppressed by stomach muscles, anti-emetics or prayer do not count.

Clear? Good. :)

[JackDog]

What about dry-heaves? I'd much rather puke up something than dry-heave.


Oh, yeah...for me, about 5-6 sneezes in a row, and most of my puking is done while in an alcoholic and/or drug induced stupor so I don't tend to remember it very well.
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[quiet bear]

Most times when I eat, usually just before I am finished or shortly thereafter my sinuses fill up and I sneeze for about 10 minutes.


the peas go in the big hole, on the bottom of your face.

[Stormlight]

Most times when I eat, usually just before I am finished or shortly thereafter my sinuses fill up and I sneeze for about 10 minutes.


the peas go in the big hole, on the bottom of your face.

:lol:

[erimir]

I've only sneezed maybe twice in a row by the limitation you're imposing.

Probably my max is 5 or 6 if you can have up to a minute or so between sneezes.

[Dingfod]

Thanks for the elucidation, Veritoss. I'm sure, given your definition that I have exceeded a half dozen sequential vomitous episodes, food poisoning will do that for a person.

[godfry n. glad]

Yeah...Food poisoning brings it all out. Sequential upheavals were about six in number, but there were both return trips at later points and significant numbers of upheavals that brought up nothing at all (just retching, coughing and gagging).

Then there was that time with the vodka (at age 17) where I don't know how many times I heaved, in what time frame, or spaced by how many moans of "just kill me now". That was my one, and only, black-out episode with alcohol, so keeping count was out of the question.

I don't think it's so much how many times, but what comes up. In my experience, spaghetti, freshly eaten, makes for a very interesting upheaval, but the "picking strings" aftereffect is no fun. The most aesthetic has to be the event involving cheese doodles and copious quantities of beer and a fresh new fallen snow. Fluorescent orange against the soft white of the snow in on a concrete driveway is ART.

Sneezes? Hmmm... My standard is one or two at a time. Coming out of a dark cinema on a bright sunny day will set off a series of six to eight sneezes. Max number of sequential sneezes fitting your definition...probably ten (dust in a barn where bales of hay were being moved around). A very rare occurance.

I do not suffer from any hay fever or allergies with nasal symptoms.

(touche' to quiet bear...got a lol outta me.)

[Kyuss Apollo]

Most times when I eat, usually just before I am finished or shortly thereafter my sinuses fill up and I sneeze for about 10 minutes.


the peas go in the big hole, on the bottom of your face.


Okay Dingleberry jr.

FOR CLARITY:

Sinuses fill up with mucus. Not peas. Mucus.

The definition for sneezing should be updated include "A sternutatory reflex to expell mucus, allergens or non-allergenic particles."

[Dingfod]

Okay Dingleberry jr.quiet bear, I'd sue for defamation if I were you.

[godfry n. glad]

Clarity?

I think he hit it on the nose.

I could certainly picture the reason for your sinses filling up during dining...after his remark.

I thought it was pretty clear. Graphic, even.

Warranted, your reason works, too.

[roastelk]

oh shit...first few days of getting a cold..I go into sneezing fits that last hours I just cant stop and it freekin damn near kills me. a few time now my throat has got so raw from the sneezing fits ive coughed blood afterwards. and my voice will usually stay raspy a couple weeks after the cold has cleared up.

[parliamentFunk]

I've never sneezed more than twice in a row which, when I do, is normally in the morning.

The only times I have ever vomited were induced by either the consumption of far too much alcohol or, and this happened just once, from the smell of McDonald's fries shortly after leaving the hospital after an outpatient surgery when I was eleven; and that was a result of the anesthetic. I don't consider those valid vomitous expulsions. But if you do, then I'd say four times consecutively. :puke: