Does your upper chest area ever get sore from drinking a soda in the morning?

[Technics1200]

This always happens to me. If I don't eat anything or even sometimes when I do eat something, and I drink a Pepsi, or a Coke, or even juice for that matter. I get this soreness in my upper stomach/chess area. I know I'm not crazy because a friend of mine says the same thing. It happens when he drinks any soda in the morning time. What the hell could be wrong? Does it happen to you?

 

[gopunk]

sorry can't say it's happened to me. although sometimes i have these weird burps that don't quite come out right and i get this god awful chest pain.

 

[Locutus of Board]

Drink milk or orange juice

 

[GagBag]

the little gremlin inside you doesnt like be showered with carbonated sugary substances, so he gets angry and pounds on your insides.

that or you two are just fvcked up

 

[slanginhard]

that $hit happens to me when i havent eaten in awhile, not just overnight, but it only last for a few seconds so i dont care

 

[XMan]

Sorta.

One time I hadn't eaten anything all day cause I'd been working on my car. My buddy brought out one of those 24oz. bottles of Pepsi, right out of the fridge. I started gunning it, and I got this sensation like I really had to burp, and wham - I passed out.

 

[GoldenGuppy]

The reason your chest is hurting is probably due to the carbonation that is inside the soda. If you drink it down too fast - especially on an empty stomach, you will definitely feel a sort of burn in the upper chest region... I suggest you not drink soda in the morning... instead, try for something uncarbonated =)

 

[Farbio]

it sounds like heartburn of a sort, where something agitates your stomach and causes acid to wash up into your esophagus, not very good feeling, but not harmful as long as not a constant happening. just change your morning diet a bit - get some food in your stomach b/f u drink a soda

 

[Barrak]

Yea happens to me to sometimes, I have yet to find a way to fix it.

 

[Delusion2001]

no....but i drink like 6-8 liters of pepsi/sprite a day, so yeah, i'm used to it...

i don't have any problems with my chest though

 

[GagBag]

hold up, 6-8 liters a day! how are you still alive?

 

[C'DaleRider]

<< hold up, 6-8 liters a day! how are you still alive? >>



I know that's a joke, but 8 liters of soda a day won't kill you....OK, maybe rot your teeth, but that's about all, unless your pancreas cannot process enough insulin to deal with the sugar.

 

[SWScorch]

Cant say that happens to me, but, if I dont eat enough, and at exactly the right time, I get these awful stomach cramps, so bad I can't even stand upright. My mother thinks I'm hypoglycaemic; I just think I have a stupid stomach.

 

[UberNeuman]

Only when I mash the can on my chest...

 

[kami]

6-8 liters of coke? we're talking like 700+ grams of sugar per day here...fsck that's terribly unhealthy. you're probably overworking your pancreas. sugar makes me fat...i sniff a cookie and gain 2 lbs, so i don't really eat it...at all

 

[HansHurt]

If by &quot;soda&quot; you mean Grain Alcohol then yes.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Another reason could be an esophageal spasm, the esophagus is a muscular tube &amp; cold drinks can initiate a spasm. I've known MD's who've had them &amp; think they're having a heart attack.

If you're under 30, I think you'll be ok

 

[Scouzer]

I drink 4.2L's of...Diet Pepsi Cafene free...daily. Yes I get that pain...sometimes its all day.. I guess I finally know the cause.

 

[bonkers325]

soda is slightly acidic. a pepto bismol or tums might help

 

[GrumpyMan]

I have learned over the years that when something hurts, I just don't do it if I can avoid it.

 

[Pastore]

when i drink soda i always get chest pains... that why i havent drank it in a while...

 

[MustPost]

I don't drink soda in the morning.
I drink it other times but not until noon