Description of Event or Problem · 1
CONSUMER STATED, "I SWALLOWED YOUR GRIND NO MORE GUARD IN MY SLEEP AND IT'S BEEN LODGED IN MY ESOPHAGUS FOR TWO DAYS... I WOKE UP THREE DAYS AGO CHOKING WITH A PAIN IN MY CHEST, WITH COLD SWEATS... I REALIZED IT WAS A WEIRD AND STABBING PAIN, AND IN MY ESOPHAGUS AND THAT MY GUARD WAS NOT IN MY MOUTH, OR ON MY BED. I THOUGHT I WAS LOSING IT AND WENT BACK TO SLEEP. WOKE UP IN THE MORNING WITH THE SAME PAIN IN MY CHEST, AND ANYTIME I ATE THAT DAY I COULD FEEL IT MOVE UP AND DOWN. THE NEXT MORNING I WAS ADVISED BY MY DOCTOR TO GO TO THE ER. THEY X-RAYED ME, BUT AS IT'S SILICONE, THEY ALSO HAD ME HOLD ANOTHER GUARD WHILE BEING X-RAYED TO SEE IF IT WOULD SHOW UP. IT DID, THEY BOTH DID, ONE AS A SHADOW IN THE CORNER OF THE X-RAY AND ONE RIGHT BETWEEN MY BREAST BONE IN MY ESOPHAGUS. THE ER HAD TO CALL IN A SEPARATE ON CALL ENT TEAM TO COME PERFORM AN ENDOSCOPY. THEY SAID THEY WERE UNABLE TO GRAB IT AS IT SLID DOWN INTO MY STOMACH BUT THAT I SHOULD EXPECT THE PLEASURE OF 'PASSING' IT IN 2-10 DAYS."