eastofeden
25-07-15, 05:38
okay I know this is stupid but I have a major fear of accidentally ingesting sharp or dangerous things hidden in food. I seem to have bad luck with food and this phobia was triggered by finding shards of glass in a drink at a restaurant a few months ago.
so today I prepared nachos (lol) and I was being really careful and making sure nothing got in them. I tipped the bag out and poured the sauce over and I was eating them with my friends, I chewed and felt something very hard and around the size of my pinky nail, like something non food-like, that shouldn't be in there, at the back of my teeth. there was nothing in those tortilla chips or the sauce that was that hard or solid. the chips were normal and the sauce was just regular salsa with no hard bits. I have no idea what it was or how it got in there. it wasnt a hard bit of chip. it was super hard and couldn't be chewed.
so I quickly excused myself and spat the mouthful of food out in the trash, then went back to my friends. needless to say I didn't eat anything after that. but I'm still really worried I might have accidentally swallowed whatever the hell that thing was, as it was kind of stuck to my back teeth and I didn't brush my teeth or feel for it afterwards, which I should have. I didn't check because I was too busy trying to remain calm and seem normal in front of my guests. I'm worried because I don't know if that thing was a piece of food, a piece of plastic, or something more dangerous or sharp.
I really don't know what to do and I don't want to go to A&E because I've been up so many times over things like this before and all they can do is give me an x ray which a lot of the time doesn't even show small ingested foreign bodies.
so yeah my irrational mind is in complete overdrive and I'm just lying here thinking whatever the hell that thing was is going to pierce my internal organs and I'm going to die.
I'm really struggling with this phobia and need some reassurance :/
I really feel like this is it.
so today I prepared nachos (lol) and I was being really careful and making sure nothing got in them. I tipped the bag out and poured the sauce over and I was eating them with my friends, I chewed and felt something very hard and around the size of my pinky nail, like something non food-like, that shouldn't be in there, at the back of my teeth. there was nothing in those tortilla chips or the sauce that was that hard or solid. the chips were normal and the sauce was just regular salsa with no hard bits. I have no idea what it was or how it got in there. it wasnt a hard bit of chip. it was super hard and couldn't be chewed.
so I quickly excused myself and spat the mouthful of food out in the trash, then went back to my friends. needless to say I didn't eat anything after that. but I'm still really worried I might have accidentally swallowed whatever the hell that thing was, as it was kind of stuck to my back teeth and I didn't brush my teeth or feel for it afterwards, which I should have. I didn't check because I was too busy trying to remain calm and seem normal in front of my guests. I'm worried because I don't know if that thing was a piece of food, a piece of plastic, or something more dangerous or sharp.
I really don't know what to do and I don't want to go to A&E because I've been up so many times over things like this before and all they can do is give me an x ray which a lot of the time doesn't even show small ingested foreign bodies.
so yeah my irrational mind is in complete overdrive and I'm just lying here thinking whatever the hell that thing was is going to pierce my internal organs and I'm going to die.
I'm really struggling with this phobia and need some reassurance :/
I really feel like this is it.