Fish bone stuck in throat? Just Bong problems!

If you are a bengali, it might not be new to you. It is so common that when asked, my aunt was actually able to suggest a medicine for it. I was dumbstuck at that too; Like seriously? there is a medicine for that!

How did it happened?

Being away from home makes us crave for home made delicacies. It happens with everyone. And when you are that fond of native cuisine, yo go ahead and try some recepies on your own. It's either Youtube on screen or Mom on phone, and your cooking lessions are set.

I am blessed with friends and flat mates who are great at cooking. This was just another day when we decided to make Muri Ghonto, a bengali cuisine which is also known by 'Fish head curry' sometimes. I will skip the recepie here but the end result, it was just luscious. Delicious and perfect combination of crunchyness and tenderness! We we enjoying our meal and suddenly I felt a huge urg..... Aaaaa Chooooo !!!!

Now I had having experienced this situation before, took a big chunk of white rice and gulped it down. The sensation was still there. I though it went away and I am still feeling some kind of psychotic after effects. We finished our meal and went to bed later on.

Next day I was still feeling the bone stuck in my throat somewhere. I went on to see an ENT specialist. She tried her best and tried some blind efforts on an approximate area that I was able to define.

Pin bones are so small that they are hardly visible. You might be able to touch and feel if it's nearby.

After few vague attemps, we though we were successful. She gave some antibiotic to heal the tear that might be a resultant of our mini culprit.

Three day course. Completed.

Oh boy! I was still feeling uncomfortable while gulping down. It has been a week almost now and started scaring me a little. I searched web, followed a lot of home remedies but to no use. Nothing helped in my case.

In my case the bone was stuck in upper wall of oral cavity. Most of them only works if it is in your throat or food pipe which can be pushed downward.

The winning story

In the evening, there was a casual conversation going on with my aunt when I bought up this topic. She laughed her lungs out and then asked me why haven't I caller her earlier. She asked me to get SILICEA tablets from a homeopathy pharma nearby. Looks like it is not so unusual in our family.

The very next day, I ran through a Homeopathic store near to my office. Based on my age, they gave me a bottle of SILICEA 6X and asked me to take 4 tablets thrice a day after food. After day one itself, I started experiencing changes. I might have continued it for another day or two and the bone dissolved completely. Though I am not sure if dissolve is the right word to use here, it didn't just vanish. The prickly feeling went away slowly and thus my assumption.

You can just swallow 4 / 5 tablets (mentioned dosage for your age). It diffuses on coming in contact with your saliva, no need to take it with water.

Finally my war was over. I was able to eat properly once again. If you are going through similar phases, you can try that medicine. It is not that expensive. The whole bottle cost me around INR 75.00 and I still have more than half left with me. If you are unsure, please run the components through your doctor to see if they might have any side effects on you. Hope it helps :-)