It could be worse. Your uvula could have been swollen because you got it pierced.

Here all this time I thought my uvula was part of the reproductive system. ;) Hope you get to feeling better.

Dude that uvula thing has happened to me at least five times in the last 5 year, it's a real pain in the next (actually throat lol), I woke up like that this morning. Mine usually goes away after about 4-6 hours. Tell me was your mouth really dry when you woke up? I think it might be from not rinsing out your mouth completly after you brush. I know it sounds simple... but hey.
Did you go to the doctor or anything? Get back to me man.
Steve

Oh, sorry about the "man" part, I failed to see the "Michelle" at the end of you note... oops.
Steve

i found this post the same way you mentioned. uvula dangling much farther than it's supposed to, and fighting off a gag reflex to search google for an answer. please just tell me everything is going to be ok in a few like the other respondant says, or if you had to go to the doctor and such. as this is the first time this has happened to me, i am a bit worried, but i'm going to try to keep my cool for a little while at least.

pablito

Ah yes, swollen Uvula. An April 21st tradition.. just kidding. It's funny though, I woke up this morning and my uvual was swollen again (only twice as big this time, it was like a thumb last time). I chalked it up as an allergic reaction to medication I had taken and not the beer and wine last night.. well actually it may be partially related to the beer and wine. It can be caused by dehydration. Since I tend to fall asleep heavily after drinking a few with my medication (DON'T DO DRUGS!)which causes me to sleep on my back.. with my head leaned waaaay back.. mouth open (Homer Simpson style) arrrrrgggggghhhhhllllll.. which probably dries out my 'little grape' and causes me to wake up, try to clear my throat, feel my uvula, panic, scream at my wife that I am dying and to please rush me to the hospital where they give me three shots and tell me to get some rest and take my paycheck.. BAMM! $600.00 emergency room bill.

3 Simple rules for proper Uvula health.

1st: Drink plenty of water before bed especially after drinking alcoholic beverages. (Also prevents hangover, also caused by dehydration)

2nd: Remain calm if it happens

3rd: Drink a bottle of water and wait one hour if possible before rushing to the hospital. (Go immediately if your throat is swollen as this could lead to a condition known as death!)

If you must go to the doctor use your normal physician if at all possible, use a Doc in the Box as a last resort and an emergemcy room only if your a paranoid idiot who thinks they're about to die... like me.

Good luck and remember, keep your Uvula moist.

d16du6

My Uvula is currently about 3 times its normal size (April 22nd) and its driving me crazy. However, this has happened a number of times before in the past 8 years. It generally goes away after about a day but really reeks havock on my day.

Tip: Try not to clear your troat while your Uvual is swollen as it seems to just make it worse.

I just moved from Hawaii to the California/ Nevada border. the swollen uvula syndrome never happened to me in Hawaii. I woke up this morning and it was the size of my pinky. My home is about 6000 feet above sea level and the air is dryer than crap. It may be a result of dehydration and overall dryness. I am in the medical field and have seen several cases like mine. I suggest sleeping next to a vaporizer/humidifier, which will keep your airway moist as it should be. Later! Scott

it feels like there is a giant wad of flem or sumthin back there that wont come out..and then i tried 2 brush my teeth and when i drank sum water it almost went down my throat!!! i hate having a swollen uvula...and i dont know what 2 do about it! Im suppose 2 start working at my first job tomorrow, but do u think i will be healthy ennough?

Fearsome, i woke up this morning and in a blind panic i started violently trying to clear my throat, it felt as though the biggest piece of phelgm i'd ever had to deal with.
My uvula is utterly vast, not in length but in diameter. Just googled here and saw this post :)
I'm reassured fortunately, thank you Matt for your tip :)

I had exactly the same problem, the doctor told me it was due to drinking and it was the mucus membrane in the throat going slack. I was told to gargle warm saltwater three times a day (to stiffen it up)and it seemed fine. I been looking round the net and it seems the dehydration is whats doing it, and i thought i'd have to stop drinking alcohl!

Scarey! Happened to me for the first time ever.... before properly waking up this morning I was aware of funny snoring sounds as I breathed out, although I had my mouth closed all the time. Also soreness at back of throat and thinking o h*ll, now I've got a strep throat! Anyway, sat up in bed and tried to cough up the phlegm thingy, which it wasn't. Looked in the mirror and thought an alien had landed in my mouth. Panic. Rushed to Google - like half the world apparantly - and was (somewhat) reassured. If we travelled here by way of the homeopathic route we'll all be putting up shares in the Apis cure :) Come to think of it, I was very dehydrated when I went to bed last night, so maybe that's it. Hope so. It could be such a simple solution....

I have strep, and upon awaking this morning i thought i fell asleep with gum in my mouth. i sleep on my back and often breath through my mouth, but this is the first time i every had a swollen uvula. It is very wierd and sorts scary untill i found this site and a few others, i really hope it is dehydration, and not something else to worry about, and yes i have seen a adoctor about the strep. hopefully ill be fine tomarrow.

Same with me.... I am praying its not Strep.... I guess if its a virus it will go away on its own? I have not been drinking (alcohol) and have had plenty of water. Nothing else is wrong with me.... So it seems. Just the sore throat and the freakin' HUGE thing at the back of it (Uvula).... ARGH!

Hey gang, don't rule out allergies. I've discovered after working in the yard all evening and trimmng trees and mowing that I had a terrible allergic reaction that caused this for me. It was asthmatic and like I had the worst cold possible. When I woke up this AM, the dreaded swollen uvula. I think it was the allergic reaction in combo with the antihistamine I took drying me out. It's been twelve hours...will probably end up back at the allergist. If this happens to you regularly I strongly suggest you see an ENT or allergist too. It IS good to know we are all not alone.

Alicia

I just woke up with my second case of a swollen uvula. To all those who this is happening to for the first time (which seems like far too many), I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Both times for me I've been sneezy the day before, and last night I drank some Bailey's before I went to bed. I think that was the cause of it. Goddamnit though, it's such a royal pain!

I've had about a half dozen cases of the swollen uvula in the past 15 years...most recently this morning. The first time I rushed to the ER in the middle of the night, was given a bunch of oral steroids and a hefty bill. Since then, I've always just taken aspirin, or let it be, and it's always gone away in the course of a few hours.

I am diabetic, and tend to get a bit dry-mouthed overnight if I haven't had great control, and reading these posts is the first I've heard of a possible connection between the condition & dehydration. I'll take the advice posted here & hopefully that'll do the trick. Good luck all!

I am sitting here with a swollen uvula as well...such a hassle. Happens several times a year. The first time, years ago I was out of town, and called my doctor. He told me to go to the emergency room, that since I was out of town I needed to be on safe side and make sure I was not going to have my throat swell shut! After several hours in ER, and a huge bill I was told it was an allergic reaction and they gave me benadryl....a huge dose. Funny how everyone is saying theirs swells from antihistamine....that is how I clear mine up. I take benadryl.

Hi, I'm also a first time uvula-choker. I feel reassured not only that its nothing serious, but that I am not the only dork who's first instinct is to search on Google during a percieved medical emergency.

I was drinking last night, am dehydrated, and have a severe snoring problem. Man this thing sucks.

This is nasty...feel like i have some bad sinus drainage but instead its my uvuala, swollen to the size of my THUMB...almost.
I hope that this goes away soon. I am a gagger and this is the worst. I used some chloroseptic throat spray to numb it and that helps big time

The funny thing is that we all woke up with this and ran to Google....

Wow, I feel like such a loser now. I woke up this morning with a sore throat, but it was a different kind of pain than I'm used to experiencing. I tried drinking water to make it feel better, but swallowing hurts like a mo-fo(excuse my lameness). So I spent a couple hours reading through the kaiser book and webmd trying to figure on what life-threating illness I have. Then I find this, and realise that I'm a prat who's making a fuss out of nothing. Hopefully it'll be gone soon. Thanks for all the advice, you lovely bunch of random people.

Thank you all. I was set to go to the doctor after work today since my Uvula feels like it is the size of a baseball bat. It has been over 24 hours which stills scares me a little, but this certainly does help.

LOL Yup I got the swollen Uvula thingy it sucks but for some reason I thought it was called epiglottis so I googled that and it said that it was a really bad think and you have to be hospitalized and something like 19000 people die in north america from it and I was freaking out like o shit and then I saw a mouth diagram and I was like o few thats not whats swollen, so I googled the swollen uvula and now I feel better. Its not serious and ya I feel better thanks everybody Im not alone in my strange swollen uvula case. Lol

I had been smoking and drinking fizzy drinks for a couple of days before I go to bed. And I woke up this morning with a swollen and lengthy uvula which freaked me out.

I will try and watch it for a few days though before checking with the doctor but it is damn uncomfortable.

Thank you all for your comments. I woke up this morning and thought I was going to choke -
Had been wondering all day what it could be, so I googled it and found you guys. What a relief! And yes - I also did the epiglottis thing first - AAAhhh!! I was told to have my tonsils out - thank God I didn't go to the doctor, you guys saved me a bundle.

Uhm.. I had strep throat last week.. then my tonsils got filled up with pus and had to be "drained". Now the tip of my Uvula is PURPLE!? Got any ideas on this one? Or am I the first freak with this?

I WOKE UP THIS MORNING GAGING AS IF I HAD A BIG HUNK OF COLD IN MY THROAT. ONLY TO FIND OUT THE FILLING WOULD NOT GO AWAY. I GARGLED WITH LISTORINE 3 TIMES. LOOKED DOWN MY THOAT AND THERE IT WAS MY UVULA WAS HANGING DOWN ON MY TONGUE. THE WAY IT LOOKS IS SLIMY AND TRANSLUSENT AROUND MY UVULA. I GOT ON THE NET AND SEARCHED AND FOUND THIS SIGHT NOW I HAVE HOPE THAT ITS NOT ANYTHING TO BAD I HOPE. BECAUSE I WAS DRINKING LAST NIGHT, MOET AND BEER AND I HOPE THAT IS THE CASE.

I have had this condition for several years now. This is the 3rd time it's happened to me. The first time, I had been drinking the night before and woke up with it and went to the emergency room. They injected me with epinepherin (spelling?) which hurt like hell and kept me in the hospital for observation. I was referred to an allergist who said I might be allergic to a preservative since I have no history of allergies. It happend again a year ago (I had been drinking the night before) and I did a self-injection on epinepherin (FUN!) and took Benedryl. I was fine by the end of the day. This morning I woke up with it again (I had been drinking the night before) and since I'm out of ephinepherin I decided to try Google. After reading these posts I'm certain that my condition is due to dehydration and not an allergy. I'm pushing fluids, ibuprofin, and benedryl. Thank goodness for my trusty Google search engine and for all you other sufferers of this very strange condition.

Last night I had an adverse reaction to drinking vodka and eating pizza known as vomiting. This morning I woke up and my uvula was the size of a marble. I sucked on some ice cubes for a couple of hours only to freeze my tongue and throat (no help to the swelling). I've tried sleeping but I can't get comfortable with this feeling in the back of my throat. I also tried doing everything that would help alleviate this problem such as avoiding talking, drinking lots of water and not eating anything that might annoy my dangly uvula. Fedup, I turned on the computer to look up some info only to come across this site. I doubt this site was meant to be funny but I almost choked and swallowed my uvula as I was laughing so hard. I'm glad to read that it doesn't sound like anything potentially fatal and I'm not only one to have experienced this.

I got it too. a second tongue, like two thumbs. if i lie down i can't breathe. i just got my tonsils (& adenoids) taken out and the doctor didn't seem too concerned but gave me steroids and painkiller and antibiotics. should i gargle with saltwater?

Iv had this happen a few times.. the first time a few years ago I honestly thought i was gonna die and attempted to cut it with a steak knife... i was paniced and I actually cost my wife to lose her job by freaking out and telling her i was going to die...I calld the hospital and asked about my uvulea being swollen and the doctor didnt give me one bit of information about it... he goes.. you have to come in and pay us to help you like everyone else... I never even called that place before.. or ever again. But the steak knife made it worse. I figured it out tho. I wake up with a swollen one from snoring and having my mouth open and dry when i sleep. im gonna try to wake up in the night to drink water from now on. I just got it again this morning.. thats why im on this random website...hope i can help with my info...but think logically about it... we all get it not during the day... or while awake.. we only get them when we wake up.. SOOO its from snoring or sleeping with your mouth open and dry. logical to me. glad to see im not the only one. I cant even talk.. this sucks.

You all are too funny!! I, too, am laughing and gagging on my uvula while reading this. Although, I have a little twist to add to the dilemma ... Mine is large and long and red and irritated and I feel like I'm swollowing it AND it looks like there is puss coming from it (yes, I know -- gross. I've been living with it all day). Like it has puss filling and it's coming out the bottom ... Anyone?!

A fellow "Swollen Uvula" Google Searcher

Another thanks from a tired and sleepy wife. My husband woke me up at 4:00 a.m. saying that he had a ball sitting on back of his throat. Me not knowing what a urvula was, got all worried and was ready to take him to the emergency room. He decided that he felt OK and would go see his doctor in the morning. So he went back to sleep sitting up while I came to the computer to see if I can find out what the problems was, but first I had to find out what that ball was called. So after a few searches, I found the name and then ran into this dialogue. Thank you very much because I am a lot calmer now at 6:30 a.m. and can wake him up knowing what it could be and he shouldn't worry. He also probably had an apple martini before going to bed and he snores, so probably is the dry throat problem. Thanks again.

ha. this place is great. i, too, am now a member of the swollen uvula club. we should make a t-shirt. hope yours have all gotten better and that mine will soon.

thanks guys - much relieved to know i'm not alone with waking up to find a swollen uvula. man it's annoying - am trying hard not to swallow but it's not easy!

makes me laugh how we all sat down and googled to find this site!!

Thanks for the comments. It truly does help to know that other people out there are having as much fun as I am.

I have had it happen to me about 6 or 7 times in the past 2 years. I have come to believe with me it is in fact an allergic reaction, and sadly enough Chocolate seems to be the culprit. Especially certain types of chocolate that seem to irritate my throat when I eat them.

One thing is for sure, it is no fun and I will continue to google or gargle or whatever it takes to rid myself of this terrible priviledge.

Hey everyone, I'm 19 years old and woke up with this big ass thing in my throat....and yes, at first i thought I was going to die, or it was going to fall off or something freaky. So, since I was alone in the house (and about to die, lol) what did I do? Searched the web, lol. But thank god I did, im not as worried anymore, but I am a waiter at a Wild Wing by my house and have to be at work in 3 hours, hope it calms down by then.
Thanks everyone

Suggestions for the T-shirts anyone?

I almost always get a swollen uvula when I have a cold, I believe its because I sleep on my back and being bunged up makes me snore my little heart out which, in turn, dehydrates my mouth, throat and uvula.

I've had this on and off (whenever I've had a cold or a hangover) for several years now and have learned to drink lots of water, cut back on the cigarettes and try hard not to cough up any phlegm!

I would suggest, however, if the swelling doesn't go away after a couple of days that you go to the doctors.

well im also a google search adict i woke up last week after a night of hard drinking and alot of beer i thought i had a cotton ball in the back of my troat when i woke up and i drank 4 glasses of cold water and it still never cleared the dryness well some how i thought lets look down my throat so i opened up wide and said ahhhh and to my surprize say my uvula and that it was dangling lower than normal for half the day i choked on it and finally it went away......well yesterday i woke up (1 week later) after yet another day and night of drinking and my uvula was 3 times the size and i gagged more than the last time well today i finally stumbled onto this site and damn im glad i did ....im wanting to thank you all for your imput cause im not a freak that has one thing after another go wrong cause im me im seeming to be rather normal thank you all
p.s. "GOOGLE SEARCH RULES"

So, how long does it take for this thing to stop being swollen? I'm encouraged and am trying to wait patiently, but as you all know it isn't fun at all.

The only thing that makes me feel better is this excellent company. Thank you all.

well Elaine mine usually takes bout half a day and i say usually but its only happened twice lol hope this is helpful

I too have this problem right now(second time).Looks and feels like I could swallow it!I live in Washington and it was almost 100 degrees yesterday.My building I work in has no AC and it's sickly hot almost all the time.It could be an infection but dehydration comes to mind.My wife also made me a Brown Cow(drink)last night,which I didn't even finish.Haven't read anything about dehydration from any so-called medical sites,but this does seem to be the theme here along with drinking!Good luck to everyone with this problem whatever is the cause.

This is the first time this has happened to me. I had a beer durring lunch yesterday but no other drinking. My uvula was three times the size it normally is and freaked me out bog time. I drink lots of diet coke. If any body else here aklso does let me know. Just trying to trouble shoot this.

Misery loves company. Who would have thought a Google search would yield such results? I've got a sore throat and discovered my swollen uvula today--while on a trip back from England--and, like the rest of you, probably this is due to dehydration and alcohol, though I've got a twist to add: after months of abstinence, I performed oral sex on a guy a few days ago, so I'm gonna have my doctor check it out, to rule out STD's. (The first gay uvula story on this site).

hi, im a real dumb A** i tried to put my fist in my mouth, being successful but my throat hurt a lil so i didnt pay any mind. now im woken up by a big thing in my throat. i tried to swallow it at first but i couldnt. so i went to the bathroom and looked and my uvula is 2-5 times bigger. hopefuly it will go down. but y do i keep wanting to spit up? is this normal? ill try the remedies before i go to the doc. thanx ppl i dont know

jess, the thing at the back of your throat is called the uvula and it is part of the gag reflex , it stops anything from going down your wind pipe when you swallow so there for your gonna keep feeling like you gotta puke or choke until the swelling goes down .... keep hydrated and good luck

I have had a swollen Uvula about 5 or 6 time in the last 8 years. The first time i thought i had some sort of rare disease and i convinced myself i was going to die. Having a major hangover i decided that it must be somthing to do with that. After a couple of days the swelling went down and i thought nothing of it. After then it has only happend when i had been drinking so i dint worry to much about it.
I have got it at the moment though and i havent been drinking for about 2 weeks. After reading what all you people have writen i have a theory.

1)It only seems to happen after drinking the night before or by being very dehidrated and then sleeping.
2) Another feature that seems to agrivate the swelling is falling asleep on your back with your mouth open or sleeping next to an open window. This will cause moisture to be lost from the mouth more quickly than normal.
3) Sleeping for longer than normal also gives you more chance of being dehidrated.
4) Hotter than normal weather
5) Drinking diaretic drinks. Such as cola, coffee, tea and any alcoholic beverage.

Prevention
Drink plenty of fluids. for any diaretic drink, drink the same or greater volume of water. 1 pint of beer = 1 pint of water.
Drink plenty of water regularly through out the day.
If you are going to go out drinking on a night out, make sure you drink plenty of water in the 8 hours biulding up to it. then drink a couple of pints of water when you get home. set your alarm to wake you up early even if you dont have to, just to drink another pint or more of water. then go back to bed if you dont have to get up.
Eat plenty of fruit. Melons are high in liquid as are most fruits.
Try not to sleep directly under an open window.

Good luck

the open window thing is probly whats helping cause my uvula to swell as well ...not to mention the screaming hot weather and lack of water and too much coffee and beer thanks dave i will try your theory next time i get drunk
i sleep right under a window and when im drunk or not its nice to have the cool air blowing on my body after a hard day of work and heat(i work in a kitchen at a pub)

Thanks for the information. I woke up this morning with a swollen uvula. It's great to know that there are others who experienced this crazzzzzy situation. I did drink excessively last night..... I slept on my back.....I snore a lot when I drink a lot.... I am going to ride this out and worry too much about it.

This has happened to me about fifteen or twenty times in the last 20 years of my life. Started at about 19, and the most recent problem was about 1 month ago. I couldn't sleep because it nearly completely blocked my air passage when breathing through my mouth. Started early in the morning with an annoying itch (feels like it's inside the throat, but near my ear) and the swelling increased until I could barely talk. It always goes away during the course of the morning. I believe it is an allergy, possibly an allergic reaction to a cold virus, because it seems to happen prior to, or in lieu of, the actual cold symptoms. Very weird though!

mine's swollen right now, has been for 3 days. this is the third time it's happened, all three occurring after throwing up from drinking. thought this is the first time it's lasted more than one day though...

glad i found this site. time to start chugging water like it's free...

This is the first time I have ever experienced a swollen uvula. When i woke up this morning to find that my uvula was the size of my largest toe i freaked out and started crying hysterically. I went to the doctor and found out it was only an infection. However i do sleep with my mouth open and snore a lot so i figured that probably helped the dude back there too. I hope it doesnt happen again.

Another panicky Googler here! I am 36, just got back from a very rainy beach vacation last night, and haven’t been drinking. I have, however, been suffering from a bad cough the past few days. I laid down to sleep tonight and it felt like I had a huge wad of mucous in the back of my throat so I tried to cough it up… no go. I went to the bathroom and tried to hack it up to the point where I almost vomited… Finally I got a flashlight, looked, and almost freaked out when I saw my… you guessed it… grossly swollen uvula. I considered going to the ER and then decided to Google it and found this page. Fantastic! I am much calmer now! I am going to pop a Benedryl, drink a bottle of water, and hope it’s all better tomorrow!

Thank God for You! Searching the net, you find NOTHING-- I, of course, try all the medical terms I can think of (not many, by the way) "Trauma to Uvula," I find "Uvulitis..." "Uvulectomy," or whatever. God knows what else... I'm thinking," They're gonna have to CUT OFF MY THINGY! OH NO! Finally, I try "Swollen Uvula," and Poof! Here we are.

Here's the nonsense that I can add to the details above:

Yes, I was drinking, But not a lot-- I had only finished 2 beers. All of a sudden-- NOT overnight-- I felt like I was being repeatedly bit by a mosquito in the back of the throat. This was a violent itching. I tried to "scratch" it with my mouth by by using suction, and I'm sure I "Scratched too hard." (...just like Mom always told me, "If you scratch too hard, you'll make it worse and hurt yourself.") I basically felt my uvula slowly growing in my mouth and thought I was having an allergy attack. (PS-- I DON'T have allergies...) I took a hit off my wife's inhaler that she keeps around for her own allergies, to no avail, gargled with salt water, and went to bed.

I'ts still bothering me-- a good 12 hours later-- but I'll go hit the water now. I'm having trouble speaking, breathing, etc., but nothing's really "sore."

Thanks again, and good luck with the swelling in your thingy.

i love this site and im so glad that i stumbled upon it ....all the stories are great i know im not alone ....im sorry for everyones swollen uvula's but im glad there is someone here to share in my discomfort and i have this site on my favorites and i check it 2 times a day to see if anyone new is on and i just thought id say hey if there are anyone that wants to chat my email addy is ttattoo_kitten@yahoo.ca and in the subject put uvula so i know where you came from
hope to hear from you soon

How funny this all is to me. I was woken up at 6 this morning by my girlfriend calling me, knowing I didnt have to be at work until noon, and telling me that her uvula was swollen to 3 times its normal size. I told her not to panic, that it had happened to me before and I was fine, and that I would research it for her and to suck on some ice or drink water if she could. She told me she was already drinking some cold water. Got off the phone and got on Google and found all of you wonderful people saying the same thing. Thank God for the Internet!! She did also have just one Bacardi last night while playing pool, sleeps with her windows open AND 2 fans going (we live in the Central Valley of CA..VERY hot and DRY in the summer), and snores a bit, while not drinking much H2O in the few hours before bed, for not wanting to be up all night peeing. Anyway, I passed all of your lovely thoughts and anecdotes on to her and told her not to worry, that she was, fortunately, not going to die from this. Thanks again!!

Yep, another member of the club. This is the scond time I've had this. The first time I didn't really know what was going on, just that it was annoying the heck out of me for about two days. This time I had severe fever and a throat infection for several days. Went to the doctor, got antibiotics. After 2 days fever went away and the infection seemed to be going too. Then this... My uvula (I cant belive I have something in my body called that) has been swollen for over 48 hours now. I know I was getting dehydrated while I had fever, so I guess that may be the reason. I have trouble sleeping. It is easier if I sleep with my head high.

I have decided to give it one more night, if the thing doesn't come down in size then I will go see a doctor. Thanks for the laughs, unpleasant as they were...

Having experienced this a few times, mostly after drinking too much and smoking cigars the night before, I can comment on the painfulness of it! It really does suck. Avoid talking, take a hot shower with lots of steam, drink some well made sugary tea, and go back to bed!

holy this site is luvin great. so anyway. i live in northern nevada where the beer flows like wine. the other night, we put the bar on lockdown and got super silly just poundin brews and wut not.... ya so, smokin as well. and i wake up. huge uvula. all my roomates laughin at it. but after 24 hours. it's still sore and swollen. and bothering me so luvin bad. so i google it. find this site. laugh. then post. i just hope its not some strep coming on or someting like that. i'm starting to convince myself it was from the hard partying. but after 30 hours it should be going down no>? anyway. here is to all the swollen uvulas out there. keep it wet.

hey mike hope your uvula goes down soon i really feel for you dude...i replyed to your email btw.
katie

Hi guys!
I've been searching for a site like this for ages now...
certainly feel better reading the comments.....
My story is similar to everyone elses really. Heavy drinking & smoking the night before.
England were playing France in Euro2004, I was at the pub with my friends very early rushing beer down my neck like there was no tomorrow, smoked probably 20 cigarettes, & a few cigars......
woke in the morning with the feeling that I was totally clogged up with phlegm!! I rushed straight to the bathroom to clear my throat.....for ages I could not spit anything out....until I spat blood out I then looked in the mirror.....I thought I was gonna die......it was the freakiest thing I ever seen...I went to the doctor he said I need antibiotics & nurofen..
He said it would be possible that the bacteria from it could get into my bloodstream & then I could have heart problems!!!!, so antiobiotics were taken as prescribed! very frightening!
This was 2 over 2 months ago now...& I still check my throat every day & I'm very paranoid about it. Feel much better reading about everyone elses situation though......Drink lots of water!!

oh man. scared the living crap out of myself this morning when trying to hack up some phlegm, and felt my uvula near the middle of my tongue. being this had never happened before, I worried about tonsilitis, or strep throat, etc. thankfully, google was there to alleviate my hypochondria. I smoked a lot of a type of medicinal plant last night, and was told that I was snoring much louder than normal. I've ingested about a half gallon of water now, and I'm hoping for the best.

well, we all seem to have the same problem.. we wake up and our uvula's are swollen. This is the second time it has happened to me and im a 20 year old college student and I drink enough to where i think drinking and dehydration do cause this. The first time this happened i went to the doc and he gave me prescription benadryl. Well, it remained swollen for a few more days so i went back and he gave me a week prescription to some type of steriod and it did the trick right away...i guess just make sure u stay hydrated.
Josh

Hi fellow club members.
The problem of swollen 'dangly bits' occurs in Australia too! It first happened to me after a big night on the drink and associated vomiting. After this incident I noticed that it started happening every time I drank spirits, whether in excess or not, plus it started happening after even the first drink. I thought that maybe it was a reaction to alcohol, but thinking more about it, I usually drink in pubs - where it is filled with cigarette smoke (I would not normally subject to smoke), which would also possibly cause the irritation. I think that the uvula would be sensitive to foreign objects (aside food) touching it. My cases have only lasted a day, usually no longer touching the tongue after half a day.

Isn't it amazing that we've all invaded this poor person's blog to discuss the fleshy little stalactite hanging from the back of our throats? We've all created an impromptu swollen uvula support group. Long live google!!!

Ergh.. thank GOD and GOOGLE for this site! I have had the swollen uvula a number of times now. Scared myself so bad I couldn't even bring myself to google it! Thanks to my friend who emailed me this link, I now blame it on the beer ;) Thank you thank you thank you!

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I woke up this morning with the swollen uvula. This is the second time it's happened to me. The first time was the day after I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth cut out. Today, I don't know what caused it, perhaps allergies? I didn't have a drop of alcohol but I did drink a red bull about two hours before bed... I wonder...

I can't believe this day and age where we are all posting silly things about our swollen uvula to random folks! I too drank last night and woke up with a pain and swelling in my throat - but not really my throat, my uvula they tell me. How bazaar?!?! It's been bad all day and not getting better. Now I could be afraid to sleep, for fear I will choke! Bummer - but thanks to all of you for being there. :)

Amazing, I thought I was some unique mutant with the most stupid power in the world, to make my uvula swell up. Captian Swelled Uvula or something. But, like everyone else here, I google and find this site. This is my second time bonding with my dangly thing.

I do have a few things to add.
I drink excessively and it doesn't seem to be the only cause. This and the other time it happened I was drunk and made out with a girl. I think it's because girls have cooties? No, but really, there might be some sort of bacteria transfer. Anyone else subject to this?

Also, my uvula never returned to it's normal size after the first time. It's still really long and almost looks like a dog's "pinkie", gross as it sounds, but it is what it looks like (at least my mates say so).

Hey can I join the swollen Uvula club too? I had a really sore throat all last week and then on saturday morning woke up choking....on my uvula. I panicked and rushed up to casualty who sent me away with the number for the out of hours doctor. Apparently I have tonsillitis and the swollen (actually I'd say mine was more elongated) uvula is part of it. i am now on day 3 of 10 days of antibiotics.

I still have my swollen uvula but with sore throat lozenges and aspirin it doesn't hurt too much, if I am not paying attention and it accidentally flicks onto my tongue it makes me gag and sometimes be sick however :-(

I have been having a series of strange dreams about it, last night I thought a man had flicked a pebble into my mouth and I woke up trying to spit it out.

Well thank you for making me chuckle all you Uvula buddies and thanks also to the poor random whos blog this is!

man i got this thing too i was drinking last nite and threw up before going to bed i had to wake up to take my brothers girlfriend to work and on the way home i got sick and after that is when i got the swollen uvela how long do u htink it will take to go away??

I had a sore throat last night - had a cold or two going on and off for days - no drinking for the last couple days but do have the A/C running and seem to have a perpetually dry throat this time of year. So i took some fibre stuff to boost mr Immune System and went to bed... woke up and was gagging from what i thought was all the gunk in my sore throat, then found (on getting up and trying to yak it up - UGH!!!) that it was my suddenly enlarged uvula. The li'l bugger was lying on the back of my tongue staring at me!!! :-/

20 hours later and it is still here, i am chewing gum to keep my mouth moist and its helping (woke up later with a VERY dry mouth, only now realise i shouldn't have stayed in bed all day to sleep it off and this adds to dehydration). But i suspect i may have the cold / sore throat deal even when the uvula returns to its natural state. Bugger.

God bless googlers, one and all.

I have had the swollen uvulua about 5 times. I don't drink. For me,It definately seems to be some type of allergic reaction. I don't know to what. My uvula swells so I feel like I am going to swallow it and my throat hurts. It is very scary and I feel like the whole back of my throat is swelling. Benadryl starts relieving it within 1/2 an hour.

I don't drink but I got one too. I think mine is from sucking the back of my throat cos it was itchy. Now my uvula looks like a shiny new born kangaroo???!!!.Thanks for all the friendly advice.

I woke up, looked in the mirror, and thought I was going to die. I didn't want to swallow or breathe through my mouth, for fear that the suction would rip the uvula from my palate and I would choke on it and die. Despite this fear I didn't call campus EMS or 911 or anything- just google. Well here's to feeling better hopefully, and knowing that indeed, there is something for everything on the Internet.

Yes I've joined the "fat dangly" club. Was gardening came in felt very thirsty, but no matter what ammount i drank it didn't seem to help. Wanted to cough up phlegm but only seemed to make me want to choke. Yes I then panicked.

Woke the wife up who had been working nights. Told her I thought i was going to choke to death. She rang NHS Direct who then told us to rush to Hospital and if I was to pass out on the way to stop the car and dial 999!

This made me feel much better! As we set off i told my wife to stop hanging about and drive like Colin McCrae, this was an emergency!

Felt stupid when got to the Hospital only to be told that I had had an allergic reaction.This seemed strange as i had never had an allergic reaction before and had only been gardening as i had done many times before. I was then given a prescription for anti allergy tablets. A day later the uvula still feels the same but it is reassuring to know i am not going to die!

Thanks google and everyone else for the reassurance.

Hi, I'm anami, (Welcome, anami) and I've got a swollen uvula. This is my first time, so be gentle. But seriously, I think the cause is pretty simple: snoring to excess. I had a bad neckache, so I took some Canadian aspirin (222s). Eventually, I got to sleep. I was sleeping on my back on a buckwheat neckroll. My guess is that I started snoring in that position and, with no girlfriend here to tell me to roll over, I snored on for several hours. During snoring, the uvula "collides" with the tongue and causes it become swollen. So, pharmaceuticals or alcohol make us hard to rouse and let the snoring continue for a long time. I talked to my girlfriend and she asked what I was going to try: ice, water? I thought about it and said, "Ice Cream!"

I think I'm really screwed up. When I was born, my uvula split from the bottom up. I now have two of them!

I got sick a couple of days ago. I'm not sure what I have, but I get chills, then a couple of minutes later I get really hot. I get dizzy and light headed. I just noticed that I have a swollen uvula today.

My toncils are swollen too, and with the swollen uvula, it makes it really hard to swollow anything. I have been living on tea for the last few days.

I noticed that when I take Cold and Sinus medacine, all of my pains and symptoms mostly go away except for my sore thoat. There is also red dots in the back of my throat.

Does anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks,
Chris

well folks its happened again i got slobbering drunk last night and smoked like a chimy and was very loud while having sex at the end of the night (too much info)(sorry)but i woke up this am with another swollen uvula episode....only this time im not freaking out because i know what it is....sucks to be me and its my own fault but thats all good and if anyone wants to chat about uvulas or anything just email me at ttattoo_kitten@yahoo.ca
later y'all
katie

I've had this swollen uvula for the past 2 years, or thats when I noticed it and its ALWAYS when I wake up in the morning. Huh, must be from dryness. I'm trying to find out why it comes and goes. It might happen to me once a month. Right now, its finally happened to day in a row. At this current moment, chocolate seems to be the culprit in my case or its adds to drying out the mouth. Whenever I feel that lump in the back I just sleep on my side so I can breathe..hehe! My advice, try eating chocolate before you go to sleep. Lumped up my Uvula. Could also be medication.

Mystery

Gargle with salt water and or Mouth wash. Usually brings the Uvula back down to earth in about 30-45 minutes. Due to the Uvula growing during sleep, its gotta be due to dryness. Maybe a squirt of something for drymouth before you go to sleep might do the trick. I'm going to give it a shot. Hopefully it will work.

My name is Rex and I have a swollen uvula.

I woke up this morning, like everyone else, thinking that there was some major phlegm ball that needed coughing up. However, something felt weird, so I went to the bathroom and saw my swollen uvula. It was grotesque.

I got a glass of water and started googling and found this site.

It seems that I did one of everything that has been mentioned as a possible cause.

Last night, I...

1) drank beer
2) smoked
3) slept with the window open
4) seemed to be coming down with a cold (that tickle in the throat feeling)
5) am a snorer
6) am allergic to many things

So, here I am with my swollen uvula, awake at 7:30 on a Saturday morning.

Thanks for being there guys.

I'm a high school student, so I plan on getting little to no sleep during the schoolweek and getting caught up on Saturday. Not this week.

I woke up at around 8 a.m. snoring louder than I'd ever heard a human snore (What other species have you heard snore, you ask? Don't.), and when I stood up, I just about hurled from the monstrosity that flopped down on my tongue. I screamed (on the inside, at least), and ran to my bathroom, where I looked in the mirror and saw the horror that is a swollen uvula for the first time.

I'm on the home stretch of a pretty bad cold, so that may have been a factor, but I do sleep next to an open window, with 3 fans on in my room (San Diego, CA isn't too nice at night this time of year), and woke with the traumatizing piece of flesh slapping back and forth, sounding strangely like a lawnmower. I had my mouth open when I woke, so I'm assuming I had it open for quite a long time last night.

After drinking innumerable glasses of water, it feels a bit better, but the "beached whale" feeling, as someone put it before, hasn't gone away - I've had a few close calls, and having to clean up my upchuck is the last thing I want to do right now.

Everybody's support is amazing, and I feel great knowing I'm not a solitary case (even my Aunt called and told me she and my Uncle have had it many times before).

Thanks for the help, everyone, and KEEP ON POSTING!

Okay, I played tennis yesterday, then played Beirut (beer pong) at a friends place last night. I got sick, chucked in his bathroom - and then passed out as hard as I could. Woke up with my throat bothering me about 9 am. Got home, looked in the mirror and wah-lah a uvula about half the size of my pinky finger dangling on my tongue. I was scared. But, after reading this feeling much better. I just went out and bought benedryl for allergies, 7UP and some soup. I will let you know how this b.s. remedy works.
Cheers!
Matt

*sigh* I am sitting at work, having just finished a cup of coffee, and finding my swollen uvula gagging me AGAIN. So, I shall now go chug a buncha water.

Thank you Dr. Google for saving me once again.

I'll pay you in sex... but no oral.. at least until this swelling goes down.. I mean the uvula.. not my.. umm.. never mind

This really really sux big time, I actually think am going the die, the bugger is so long its resting on my tongue... Its cool to freak my friends out though LOL,

I too found this site on Google. The only bit I have to add to this discussion is I have had the "swollen Uvula" several times (more than 5 but less than 10) in the last 5 years. I recall sometimes I had been drinking the night before I experienced this swollen-ness and probably had smoked a bit of the leaf to boot. This time I assure you that not only had I not consumed cannabis or alcohol BUT I had a full can of chicken-noodle soup and a big glass of milk before bed. SURELY I wasn't dehydrated after this much liquid.

My .$02 to this discussion....

Holy moly - this site helped me alot.... every bit of panic and tidbit of information here is right on.... I woke up freaking out like I had a phlemball in my throat that just won't come out. I had smoked maybe 10 cigs and a cigar over the w/e, maybe 3 beers last night so I thought throat irritaion from those things, plus I also was very overtired and running on little sleep. My girlfriend said I was snorning louder then she's ever heard and she heard me over the tv and fan! I spent the first 30 minutes of the morning hacking like hell and thought I had a piece of lung or something coming up - I was snorting so much I caused blood vessels to break and got blood in the spit, which was clear, not chunky or anything. My girlfriend wanted to go to the doc, but I wanted to wait, mainly because I lost the job recently and ran out of medical benefits... I looked in the mirror and saw it and my girlfriend found the 'uvulea' part of a pic on the web. Then I searched and found this, which caused me to take it easy today. Benedril, water, don't talk if you don't have to. Vicks felt good. Hot tea was soothing but it doesn't help the swelling - cold stuff is the key. Mine is smaller but still bugging me. I've been up since 8am and it's midnight now so 16 hrs still pretty much the same, but taking it easy. Going to sleep 4 hrs tonight only and check on it again then. Will give you all an update - hope you found it, and my story helpful, I did. Thanks to whoever started this page. -Kris, Billerica, MA

Ah, yes, the infamous Uvula. This has happened to me before but i never figured out what it was. This morning, I woke up with a mouth dryer than ever before, and this feeling of phlegm in the back of my throat. I figured i could blow my nose a few times and drink some water and it would be ok....WRONG! I went to freakin work and the whole day i winced every time i swallowed. It is so uncomfortable. Then later on in the evening my nose started running. I decided to look in the mirror just now, and BLAM! There was this disgusting Uvula drooped down, resting on my tongue. I knew that that thing had never sit foot on my toungue before, so i flipped out. I found this site, thank God, and now i feel better. I sleep with my mouth open most the time, and i had my fan on last night because i was hot. This probably dried out my mouth even more. Also, something that nobody has posted yet, i ate a lot of food last night, and right before i went to sleep i had one of those burps where u almost throw up, but it reaches your throat and goes back down. Well, that caused the area where the Uvula is to burn like crazy. So maybe that is what initially caused the flare up. Thanks for the help everyone, i am gonna go pop a benadryl and drink some water.
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Oh my god...this site is funnier than Conan O'Brien!!! I can't remember the last time I've laughed so hard. Too bad my uvula is killing me. It's like "The Attack of the Giant Tomato". The horror...The horror. My throat has been dry the last two nights. We've just kicked on the heat and it's really been drying me out! I mean DRY! The night before last my tongue was completely dried out. Now that's a bizzare sensation in itself, but then last night my throat was feeling really dry and it HURT like a sore throat! When I woke up this morning it felt like I had a huge ball of phlegm in the back of my throat, but when I tried to expel it I noticed it was my uvula all fat and hangin' there like a monster of some sort. I thought GREAT I'm getting sick, but I feel okay...if not a little grossed out, god my uvula! So I Googled 'swollen uvula' and found this hillarious site with all these people having the same freak-out about thier swollen uvulas. Now I can go on about my day, drink a lot of water, take my throat numbing Cepacol losenges with benzocaine (which really really helps with the pain) and gargle with warm salt water 3X's/day. Thank you all you very very funny people. I too think we need a uvula t-shirt! Any suggestions on what it would say???

Every year about this time, I'll wind up with a severe soar throat. The pain becomes so hot that I have to cringe as if I'm about to kick start a seizure whenever I try to swallow. It lasts about two or three days with varying degrees of ache. Well the pain came back again this year, only this time I woke with what felt like a mutant slug in the back of my throat. Upon closer inspection I was relieved to find that alien snot monsters had not taken over the back of my throat, instead I had a swowwen oovooluh, at least that's what it sounded like when I told my girlfriend. There has to be some sort of quick remedy I thought and turned to the internet. Whether it be a salt water gargle or eye of newt, the internet would find it. Relevent medical reference sites that I checked all said that my problem could be coming from anything from acute bronchitus or tonsilitus, to sellyourcartopayfortreatmentitus. Finally my search led me here, to a support group that not only shares in my affliction but also, for many of you, my familiarity with a bottle. It may be possible that my weekend at a Virinia Wine Festival has something to do with the clown shoe in my throat, but the swelling is three days late. So I don't blame the booze for this one but it is nice to see people like me with whom I can share a bronchial brotherhood. So cross your fingers for me because I have to work tomorrow and I don't like salt, but I have to beat this thing and I can't afford a trip to the doctor. Hmmm...maybe I can pitch that alien snot monster thing to the Enquirer...that could cover medical expenses. Well, good luck to all of you, and watch for my face in the checkout line, I'll be next to batboy and the 1-ton lady who found Jesus in her spaghetti.

well, what a pleasant suprise, uvula is hanging like a middle finger down the back of my throat, this seems to happen to me all the time like 1 or 2 times a month, in a wweird way, i think i am starting to like it..lol....

Well, I guess it is time for me to join the "swollen uvula club" too. I stumbled on this website even though I have looked up swollen uvula at least a dozen times. My Dr thinks I am weird - noone has ever heard of it and now I find out I am normal....thanks for that. Mine only happens between 3 -5 a.m. I don't drink - but it seems to happen when I am really tired, snore more. The last time was last week when my husband and I got to Honolulu and the next a.m. had a bad reaction - took a bunch of bendrayl - took some that night and had another reaction - I was dehydrated the first night - so that makes sense after what everyone is saying. Whenever I get a reaction (around 6-8 times a year) for past 3 years - I take double dose of bendrayl and sleep it off. Two of my Dr's are very concern as they keep saying it can be life threatening (especially if I can't breath) and want to lop it off. Has anyone had to resort to that??? They have tested me for every food and nothing is positive - even though I am allergies to a lot of other stuff.....Everytime it happens it scares me - but is never bad enough to go to the emergency room - but do have my self injector of ephin-stuff with me. I really appreciate all of you - it makes me feel so much better. Am open for any suggestions........

First let me just say all the stories were hilarious... I had to keep from choking on my hangy thingy... woke up this morning with my throat hurtin like hell... tried to cough up some pleghm, but all i did my gag, I also kept wanting to spit... ugh took a loak at the back of my throat and almost had a heart attack.. the most grotesque thing I've ever seen and it was in my mouth..eeewwww.. rushed myself to the doctor... she took one look and recoiled, I was like oh sh!t i have some kind of fatal disease... then she started talkin about uvula ( that's the name) she prescibed me penicillin and IB Profin and she took a throat culture ( wasn't I in enough pain?) finally I decided to do my own diagnosis... so I turned to the trusty dusty google.. and low and behold.. I found this site... the stories really helped... when i wasn't gaggin that is...

You guys, are too funny! It seems that with all these swollen uvula stories going around, it looks like we could have the makings of new reality show! Yes, I too awoke with the swollen u-word. It's happened to me a few times over the years. So this morning, I thought I'd hop on Google,(like everyone else!) and see what was up. It seems that the alcohol thing is a common denominator, for nearly all the stories-including mine! I'm also a very heavy snorer-due to sleep apnea.(there you go, there's another condition to query Google with!) Thanks for the funny stories, take care, and happy "Googling"!

P.S. Still waiting for that tee-shirt!

Google tip: For those of you who don't know about the 'Image' tab, if you type in "uvula"(without the quotes) and hit the Image tab,(at top-left of page) you will see some freaky uvula pictures, just in time for Halloween! Try it with other objects too. It's a quick way of finding an image and what your querying for, on the Web!

Sully

Ardent member of the "Swollen Uvula Club"

This Swollen Uvula Support Group has saved my life. I woke up this morning with it, and I'm still swollen as I write this. This is the second time this happened, so I'm not as freaked out about it. The first time, earlier this year, I woke up and it was REALLY swollen and battered. My people made fun of me because I complained all day about "swollen uvula" and "swollen pharynx." It was about three times its normal size last time, and it was red on both sides -- i.e. literally injured. Both incidents occurred the morning after a night of heavy drinking. I snore, and I smoke, which doesn't help. Violent snoring is apparently a contributing factor. My guess would be the majority of swollen uvula people here got it after drinking. I'm not really overweight, but I'm out of shape, and I'm starting to get a double chin and man boobs. Not having a tight, fat-free body all around would help prevent swollen uvula, in my opinion. I think blubbery pharynx syndrome can contribute to this condition. Good luck everyone. I'm going to gargle.

This is profound uvulasim - right here. With Tad. Big daddy uvula. Yeah, that's right. Mine's bigger. Above and beyond. The big khahuvula.

Big tad's top 3 tips for getting that uvula so big it will strike envy into the hearts of those with less fortunate uvulas.

1)Eat ink. That's right. Grab your printer. Rip it apart. Find the cartridge, and pour it into your mouth. The chemicals found in electronic ink will immediately induce uvula swelling - perfect before a big night out.

2)Be the bat. Bat species are known for their extraordinary uvulas. Why? Upside down sleeping. When hanging upside down the bats blood rushes so profusely to its brain, their ovula swells to incredible sizes. The same is true for humans. Buy a pull-up bar and some hang shoes - you'll be ready for a heavy-hitting uvula in no time.

3)Ever heard of the rubber band man? That's you - you're the band man. Put rubber bands around your head - right above the eyebrow. This mild circulation decrease actually increases diverted blood to the uvula. The problem with this technique is the lightheadness associated with it, and its temporary effect. Long-term use can permanently increase uvula size, so do not discard this technique.

So there you have it. These tips can make your puny uvula nearly triple in proportion, making you the envy of every party - the desire of every woman - and Mr. Popular around town.

And remember, as Tad always says - nothing is impossible!

Tad Your kinda different arent you buddy i thought it was comical what you said but are you trying to tell us that you actually do stupid stuff to get your uvula to swell .... we are all on here to get results to get ours to go away .... man times have changed ...just currious as to WHY IN THE HECK would you want to make your uvula get any larger than what it is ?... just a curriousity to each their own...lol
katie

Glad I found this page. I woke up today with the dreaded swollen Uvula although not as bad as some of you have had it. I will be brutally honest. I was hitting the bong like Cheech and Chong all day yesterday. There is no doubt in my mind that this is what caused it to swell. Anyway, I got a glass of warm salt water and gargled with it and it already feels much better. Moral of this story? Dont smoke or drink heavily and not expect it to do bad things to your body :P Mines not too bad so I'll ride it out. No sense in paying the doctor to tell me to drink some warm salt water...hehe. Thanks to all for the posts, they've been most helpful.

My husband woke up this morning w/ a bad case of a swollen thingy. (get ure head outta the gutter, I mean ulvula!!) He thought for sure it was throat cancer since he smokes. Classic case of hypocondriac he is. So, of course, er-hater that I am, I say, "I'll go look on the internet, I'm sure we can diagnose you there", and to my surprise, there's a whole support staff for people w/ swollen thingys in the back of their throat! I never saw the day my computer would save me a trip to the hospital coming! Ever! Now my husband can go back to gagging on his dangel hopper in peace, knowing that this won't be the medical condition that surely kills him! (he'll probably come up w/ a new one tomorrow and I'll be right back on here, but for now, thanx fellow uvula hurters, sorry for your pain, but it's great to know my husband's not a freak! lol)

So... It was my 22nd birthday yesterday. So as you can imagine, I did a lot of drinking. Too much. In the early hours of the morning when I actually finally made it to bed, I was having great troubles trying to swallow. Like most others here, I felt as tho I had a huge ball of phlem in the back of my throat, but I could get rid of it. I had lots of troubles trying to sleep. So I got up to check it out, and saw that it was mega-swollen. So I drank a lot of water and finally got to sleep. Now this afternoon when I got up, I found out that my sister has the exact same thing. Kinda crazy. But she's had hers for the past two days. So I don't know if this is all caused from the dehydration, or maybe its something contagious that I got from my sister.... hmmmmmm......

Damn Im glad I found this page tho... Thanks Google!

Same thing happened to me. This is the second time it's happened so I wasn't freaked out about it but I had to find this site to reassure my girlfriend eveything is ok. I only drank 4 beers yesterday and I am fighting some sort of cold. It has shrank about 50% in two hours so I'm no longer choking on it but it is still annoying. Drink lots of water and blow your nose before you sleep to help with breathing.

I will give you all 3 guessed why im posting here and the first 2 dont count. I was at my buddy's house and we went to KFC/TACO BELL and I got the popcorn chicken and some cheesy fiesta potatos. when we go back to his house and we are just hangin out playin games and we decided to go to sleep (which was strange for us because were 16 years old and have the new GTA game)and I wake up and I am dizzy as hell I rush to the bathroom and start throwing up like crazy. I run home and walk into my house at 3:00 in the morning and my dog attacks me and I almost threw up on him im. I think i got food poison from the fiesta potatos(im a black guy, I will never blame the chicken). after a while i start throwing up bile and really hard too. I think that irritated my uvala and now it looks like a punching bag and I cant talk cus it goes down my throat.this site makes me feel good about acting like a retard and freaking out about it. thank you for the comfort.

I to am loving this "group". We should start a site and get a T-shirt. I call mine Tony, because he is the man that lives in the back of my throat. Stephen King fans will know what I am talking about. :)

I have had this trouble off and on for 20 years or more. Doctors have had many things to say about it in the past ranging from needing to have my wisdom teeth removed to checking my genitiles for swelling. Several years ago I figured out on my own that it had something to do with snoring or being too dry, or both.

I now sleep near a humidifier, have chloreseptic spray near the bed, and some TheraFu ready to make.

This phenomenome has rarely been predictible in my case, and I am still inflicted from time to time. Sometimes Tony swells in girth, some of the time he swells in length, I have often awoken unable to breathe and unable to swallow for a minute or a little more.

IT FREAKS ME EVERY TIME.

The swelling has lasted three days on the long side(majority of the swelling gone 6-8 hours), 3-4 hours on the short side.

Some of the time I have to hock it up on my tounge just to swich between breathing and swallowing. It is a real pain and it hurts too. :)

Things I have tried that dont work:

1. Cutting it out or biting it out like a piece of loose skin in your mouth. (Dont try this!!! It only makes it worse, and the bright light of pain in unbearable)

2. Trying to hold it with your fingers while swallowing (because the skin still feels dry on the back side)

3. Squeezing it to get the puss out coupled with pricking it with a pin like a pimple (HURTS LIKE **** DONT TRY IT!!!)

4. Gargle with rubbing alcohol and/or witch hazel. (burned horriby and made me puke repetedly. BAD IDEA!!!)

things I have tried that do work:

1. Ice water in small sips and or gargled.

2. Salt water gargled. (dont try it iced!!)

3. Hydrogen peroxide was gross and foamy but I think helped a couple of times when it was very ichy and painfully sore.

4. Gargled with a mouthful of chloroseptic spray. Feels good to make the pain go away. (a half a tube of ambusol numming agent worked wonders too)

5. Any HOT drink. I prefer hot orange juice, Honey water, or TheraFlu.

I usually try to go back to sleep while sitting up a little. TheraFlu helps with this, I normally make a double dose in about half the water recommended. Also, today, I tried gargling nose spray. I think it may have helped, but it was a horrible experience, I dont think I will try it again unless really desperate. The swelling felt like it was going down a little in about 15 minutes.

Well I hope somethng I have said has helped. If ever a site or support group is started, or you want to talk, write me at bbeyes_2550@yahoo.com

EDC

Just wanted to let everybody know that that theory of dehydration being the cause of a swollen uvula is most likely true because i was very thirsty before i went to bed last night and didnt drink anything, and then in the morning i woke up with it swollen. thanks for all the posts! I will keep hydrated from now on!!

I too am part of the freaky-uvula club. It has been an ongoing problem with me since I was about 12 years old. I have enlarged tonsils and adenoids, so at night when i'm sleeping, unless I have a breathe-right strip, I can't breathe very well out of my nose. So every night I sleep with my mouth open and snoring. Mine doesn't look the normal shape when it gets swollen. Instead of looking like the traditional "Punching Bag" uvula, it looks like a huge pink cylinder. Yesterday for some odd reason, it got swollen while I was at work. Thats the first time that ever happened to my while I was awake. Every time I drank water or even spoke to someone I would gag and run to the bathroom. Last night when I got home I was in tears because I felt as if I couldn't breathe, and I was SOOO thirsty, but couldn't drink any water because my uvula was in the way. I'm telling you, it was REALLY frustrating. I called in to work today, but it doesn't feel swollen anymore. Now my throat just hurts like a bitch, and my voice is hoarse. I've noticed that Alka-Seltzer can bring the swelling down dramtically.

Djurkinthebox

I am a Finn living in the US so the first problem I had was to figure out what the hell the thing hanging in there is called in English, as it doesn't seem to have a name at all in Finnish.

My story:
Wife was diagnosed with a strep throat last week. Of course it hit me as well three days ago. Took a while to get to see a doctor (this is supposed to be a civilized nation but getting an appointment on Halloween Sunday just didn't work out) and was prescribed antibiotics. However, my throat had been so damn sore that I hadn't drank more than a a couple of glasses of water during the past two days. Didn't get much sleep either because I wasn't able to swallow the saliva but had to wake up to spit it out every five minutes. As an engineer I thought that OK, I'll sleep in a sitting position and breathe through the mouth, so there won't be anything that I need to swallow. And the outcome: the bloody snake hanging in my mouth this morning due to this partly self-caused dehydration.

Now I am relieved. This is the most informative site I have ever bumped into. Keep up the good work !

This is wild as hell... I can't even explain what was going through my head when I looked in the mirror and said...AHHHHHH! The even wilder part is that all of our minds thought to us the information superhighway to diagnose ourselves. Besides for voting for BUSH, us AMericans just might be getting smarter....hope this goes away... everybody put there fists in the air....We SHALL OVER COME THIS Weird ass shit...

Upon trying to clear my throat this morning, I freaked. Google cut off 50% of my panic, as everybody above, the problem is however, since English isn't my FIRST language, I didn't know what the damn thing was called ! So panicking, I was rushing through throat anatomy slides to find it. However, one of the slides was badly done, and it looked as if the uvula was the soft palate. OK, so I look up swollen soft palate. Treatments come up, and they're mainly surgery. THEN I freaked.

I have had the swollen uvula thing several times in the past, but never for this long. I am on my third day! I have a cold and can not breathe through my nose, a swollen uvula and can't breathe through my mouth without forcing this thing in and out! It's scary. Now I have strep throat to boot. Anyone else had it this long?

I'm in the club....woke up with the giant uvula. Now I am waiting for the swelling to cease. The dr said it was an infection...blew my mind. Glad I could see the threads and it's not immediate uncurable cancer...

toodles

Hi everybody! This is like an aa meeting for thoes of us with wierd throat problems, except I'm only 14. So I am here because I too Have a swollen uvula, and when i wope up with a really funny feeling in my throat i went to bathroom to see that my air was practically blocked by my uvula and my huge tonsils. Since I was a kid I've hed strep throat around 1 every 2 months so i hope to god thats not what its from, but i must tell you it's very unpleasant for someone with a sensitive gag reflex to have a little punching bag thing hittingevery were in the back of your throat! I was just wondering, should I go see a doctor sooner or later like how long should I wait? Even if you only answer my question tomoro it would still be greatly apprechiated!

my uvula is swollen, and i don't like it. need breakfast...pancakes?

My uvula is swollen. I hate it. I have a date this weekend and don't want to have a sore throat. whoa is me.

Sad but true, WebMD hasn't even caught on to our very real uvula dramas. I'm on my 2nd "big uvula" - though this one wasn't caused by drinking alcohol or lack of water. I'm in Los Angeles in November and the Santa Ana winds have kicked up in full force so I'm guessing that has something to do with it. Still hydrating like there's no tomorrow with little success. A hydrogen peroxide rinse this morning helped a big.

I'm reminded of the wise words of that old Saturday Night Live sketch w. Gilda, Chevy and Candice Bergen.... always take care of your uvula... "Babs' uvula who?"

Mines been swollen for like 3 days, never been so annoyed at something before, feels like a luger in the back of my throat and my throat is so sore, so swallowin is a bitch. When will it go away...

Thank you Michelle for hosting this bizarre online community. If you've read this far down the list of posts, you are -- like me -- in serious pain. Although I rarely post in random people's blogs, I am compelled to do so this time due to what I believe is the primary cause of MY swollen uvula.

Warning: if you are under 18, read no further. I believe the cause in my case was the spectacular blowjob I gave my husband last night.

This seems to be only thing that was out of the ordinary yesterday (the sheer depth of it, at least...it was our anniversary, after all).

Since I am a nighttime mouth breather, I regularly have a very dry throat when I wake up in the morning. But nothing like this has ever happened before. I also have a glass of wine with dinner on a regular basis (as I did last night) and nothing like this has ever happened.

While Googling, I found another site which described the common causes of a swollen uvula to be:
-tonsillitis;
-bacterial or viral infections of the throat;
-allergies;
-trauma.

I've had all of the first three conditions, but NOTHING like this has ever happened before. The ONLY thing I can think of was last night's "trauma" to my throat.

So, if you've been reading all the stories of drinking and smoking, but suspect your swollen uvula might be the byproduct of a decidely more X-rated night, know that you are not alone. Although I concur with Rich (who is the one other on this site that suspected oral sex) that STDs -- or, ick, random bacteria -- might be the real culprit for some people and should be checked out, in my case, I'm pretty confident it was just the act itself.

As for me, I plan to gargle, take a Benadryl, and try to ignore it. If it doesn't go away by tomorrow, I'll maybe see a doctor. But who wants to admit THAT to their doctor? If it turns out to be something else, something life-threatening, I'll post again with an update.

By the way, you guys who have uvulas that grew long instead of wide (like mine did) are troopers. I think I would've had a heart attack if I saw that in my throat.

I was told this was caused by sleeping with your mouth open plus having sleep apnea. I took a Benedryl and it knocked me out for four hours and when I woke up, it was back to normal.

Like everyone else is saying, this is a great site. I've had the swollen uvula problem off and on for about ten years or so, and it's usually related to either having a cold (or my body getting ready to have a cold) or drinking alcohol. Though as there have been plenty of times when I drank alcohol before going to bed without having this happen, it's kinda mysterious (the one major alcohol-related occurance that springs to mind was drinking sort of a lot of whisky before going to bed). And I seem to only ever have it swell up a little bit, and usually only on the back part of it and sides, and never "the size of my thumb" like some people have posted. I would completely freak out if mine ever swelled up that much. Anyway, it seems to go back to normal without medical intervention. Just plenty of fluids, and waiting. It's really icky, though, and annoying, so it's comforting to know that other people experience this too.

Haha! Too funny. This is my 4th or 5th case in 12 years or so, but it has been awhile. So I remembered the name of the illness (uvulitis), and googled it (like every one else appears to have done) and landed here. I couldnt remember what was given to me last time, and was hoping to find home remedies. I only read about 1/4 way down the page, and it appears 'waiting' is the best idea.

This is one of the most non painful, yet stillmost irritating illnesses you can get. When your body keeps trying to swallow that damn thing it is DISGUSTING, then you try to 'suck up' snot from your throat, and THAT thing comes up. Eeeeeeeeewwwwww.

I was fine, woke up at 5:00 AM sneezing and blowing my nose like crazy. Went to a different room, and Fell asleep around 5:30, and woke up at 9:00 like this. So it set in in just a few hours period.

The internet is a magical place. Thanks for letting me take comfort in everyone elses similar illness.

ok, so there is a fraternity in texas that plays this drinking game; the goal, to see whose uvula is the biggest in the morning... there is a direct relationship between heavy amounts of alcohol consumption and the swelling of the uvula... i am experiencing it right now and it sucks... but dont fret all, it will go away in a couple hours... its just such a hassle

I didn't google first, I semi-panicked and headed for the emergency room. Why so drastic? My wife had a headache and I offered to take her to the ER. She laughed and said, "for a headache?!" Four hours later she was having siezures. Turned out to be pre-eclampsia. So, when I had my incident yesterday, off I went. Mine wasn't swollen, it was looong. If I tried to clear my throat it wound up in my mouth, laying on my tongue. So, the ER doc took a strep(negative), shrugged and sent me home. Telling me it would just go away. So I googled and voila, the consensus is...it just just goes away. I'm at 36 hours, several benedryl and throat lozenges lated and no relief in sight. Oh well.

For exceedingly long uvula drink eight pints guiness, take a few hits from the bong, and sleep in house covered in drywall dust.

Now I'm paranoid about those that didn't write in. Did they choke to death before they had a chance? No rest for the wicked.

GOD BLESS GOOGLE! I too awoke with a swollen uvula (not that i knew what it was at the time.) Its huge and pissing me off. it is soo umcomfortable, and i am considering going to a doctor... but here is the thing: My college exams start tomorrow and i really do not have the time to go. If this is something serious that i have to miss classes over, i really dont have the time bc of exams. i really dont want to go the the health center here bc it is gross. I'll be home dec 11, im hoping that i can survive that long and see my normal doc.

Wow...I am not alone! Y'all know sponge bob squarepants don't ya? He has a friend patrick the starfish. Well I woke up yesterday with my uvula the size of patrick the starfish's head. Freaked me out it did! I actually went to urgent care as I had cold symptoms and was feeling crummy. They did a strep test that turned out negative. The doc did give me antibiotics because my throat looked so bad and it hurts to swallow. I will try to drink more water as it sounds like the key. This morning it seems a wee bit less swollen but now it's got white patches...ick, which probably signifies a bacterial or viral infection, so not fun. Has anyone else experienced this? Looking forward to having a normal sized uvula again soon. Thanks for letting me contribute to the google-uvulicious club. :)

Panic..is it me or am I having an incredibly difficult time breathing. I wake at 1:30 a.m. wondering what the hell is wrong with me.I spent all day yesterday trying to "clear" the back of my throat only to wake now with something weird going on. Out comes the flashlight. I peek inside my throat to find what looks to be a pink squid tentacle hanging from the back of my throat. Up wakes my wife..."hey, I know you just woke up, but let me look in your throat"..I'm quite the romantic. Her "thingy" wasn't hangin' with Mr. Cooper like mine. My throat doesn't hurt but I am finding this uncomfortable and impossible to sleep. Up to the computer and do a search for "swollen uvula"..a bit of anatomy class came in handy. Up pops this blog. For about 20 minutes I haven't been thinking about the "uv-man" because I have been reading the plights of others. Damn, some of you people are hilarious. What brought me here?
- I had a 2 week cold/sinus infection and have been on antibiotics for a week-feeling much better in that department
- Had 2 beers last night-
- Usually snore loud enough to peel paint from my neighbors house
- no fans on
- I live in Houston where humidity is our birthright- therefore not dry tonight
- no smoking
- drank a bunch of water before going to bed

The commonality with the "others" is the cold issues, alcohol (2 beers I guess qualify) and snoring.

Instead of making a trip to the emergency room, I now am going to gargle salt water, take a Benedryl, drink more water, then grab the flashlight and watch the swelling go down..or so I hope..it's not like I can sleep now. Keep the faith, my swollen hangy-downy brothers and sisters.

Well, gang... I have been struck by the uvula fairy. I woke up unable to breathe... thought I had throat cancer... or i was gonna die... And like the rest of you, I ran to google it. And up came this wonderful communitty of uvula victims. Thanks for all the great storys and info.... I feel alot better now. - alex

phewwwwww thanx for this site,wife had me searching for life insurence policy when this thing started growing in my mouth,was trying to cough it up for 30 mins before i looked in mirror,this site not only eased my mind but had me lmfao,after 24 hours its shrinking lol thanx again good page.

how can we decrease the swelling

well, here i am, another one... isn't it amazing how many people run to their computers when something like this goes wrong :p Dr google!

but hey, thanks a lot all you guys, i was really worried when i woke up this morning unable to breath...

and sorry to whoevers blog this is :p

Thanks!

Chris

Seriously... Alka-Seltzer works great for the swelling. I found that out before my last post.
Try it!

Wow. lol sure wish I had googled first before rushin to emerg sigh....I was at my drs yesterday with a sore throat...woke up this morning with a gagging feeling and sure enuff...uvula hell!!! Rushed back to the dr...she gave me 2 shots in the ass(good thing ive got lots of padding) and made me stay there for 5 hours observation...took me offa work for a week...sighhh the hardship of it all...gonna go drink some water and do the steam thing now...thanks all nice to know im not alone

Well, like everyone else here I woke up feeling like I had a hunk of phlegm in my throat. I thought I was choking and I couldn't breathe. I spent like 30 minutes trying to hack it up, which only made me puke. I wanted to go to the ER right away, but called my Drs office first. The nurse said it might be my uvula in stead of mucus, which led me here. Thank GOD for this site! I would have a bunch of ER docs laughing at me by now if I hadn't found you guys. I have taken my benadryl and gargled with salt water, now I guess I just have to wait. Its so maddening - its really loooong and it hits my tongue and gag reflex button at the back of my throat. Gross.

OK...its been 40+ hours now...been chuggin water like crazy...and all im gettin outta that is a swollen ____ from peeing!!! lol

Uvula is still swayin back and forth in there gagging me every 30 seconds....what else can I try people? I haven't eaten in 3 days...i cant even smoke....so lets just say im not a pleasant person to be around right now. Even my dogs have disappeared today lol someone helpppppppppp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee plzzzzzzzzzz

thank you for this site as it has saved me a dr's visit... at least at this point i'm willing to wait for my giant uvula to shrink. i, like someone else on this site, first thought it was my epiglottis but then, after googling the epiglottis, found it was the uvula. a bit of anatomy learned for the day. though i do have a respiratory infection, i think my enlargement is from lying in bed all night with my mouth open. we had terrible thunderstorms, which caused all the dogs to gather on the bed for comfort, which added to my current battle with insomnia. because of this, i took more sleep medication, which didn't do a thing as the next wave of thunderstorms, visions of tornadoes, and border collie neurosis ensued. so i took more medication... may as well have been eating oreos. more thunder, more wind, more dogs twisting and whining. it was too late, or too early in the morning depending on your view of the clock, to take the mother of all sleeping pills, so i took just another half of a light-weight variety. sleep finally came at about 5:30 and at 8 the phone rang (the plight of the insomniac). i managed to get back to sleep for another hour at which time i awoke to the worst sore throat imaginable. drainage, i thought. but then, when i tried to swallow, there it was, the much talked about thing in the back of throat that wouldn't come up. i hacked in ways never before attempted, causing the dogs (who were now happy to greet the day--grrrrrr) to wonder what strange language their mother was trying to communicate in as it sounded akin to a high-throated growl. i then tried to use a q-tip to swap out the back of my throat, which only caused gagging. so, i opened my mouth as wide as humanly possible, and made my friend examine my throat. there had to be something there. she said 'just that thing in the middle of where your tonsils would be'. i then went to the mirror, stretching my mouth into circus-mirror shapes, and decided that the 'thing' was the only possible culprit, especially since it looked extra big was touching my tongue. before i made the dr appointment, though, i came to the trusty computer, and here i sit... happy that there is a good chance that the events of the night and the medication probably caused dehydration, which caused the before-unknown uvula to enlarge (no dr bill for now). and with that i will take another big gulp of water and end the uvula rambling. thanks to all other posts.

ahhhhhhhh I can once again breathe a sigh of relief as I am uvulalicious once again;) Thx for the advice ...keep hydrated all :)

HAHA!!! I am the biggest 24 year old hypchondriac you'll ever meet, and waking up with something the size of a chevette hanging down on the back of your tongue certainly doesn't help matters. I haven't had any alcohol in like 3 weeks, but I have had a sinus infection and bronchitis, which I thought I was just getting over. I just hope this thing goes away soon, I feel like puking everytime I talk or sneeze. One more thing though, I really hope nobody goes on my PC and sees SWOLLEN UVULA as one of my favorite places. How embarrasing!! Thanks everyone. buyme11181@yahoo.com

Wow its like there is no one with a swollen uvula anymore i havent checked this web site for a month and there are the same people that there were from last time thats a good sign glad to see that there are no other unfortunate ones that are choking on their dangly swollen annoying uvula's....chit chat later
k

Wow, wish I had been able to see this 3 years ago. My first fingersized uvula incident was almost exactly 3 years ago. Woke up at 2 am choking, went to the bathroom & threw up & decided to wake up my roomie & have him take me to the ER (luckily we have pretty cheap ER's here) & they gave me some prescriptions & said to take it easy. Today is really only my 2nd time & it seems its related to winter. I have a harder time breathing cause of my sinuses & the furnace dries the air out (which is prolly why I never had this problem while I lived in India, no freaking furnace in Inida!!). So I'm going hydrate myself & get on with studying for my finals this week. Thanks all & have swollen-uvula free holiday!!!

God bless,
Rick

This is Jan from 17 Oct. I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea- and would really be interested in how many of you have it - and don't even know it - because of my symptoms - loud snoring - and not breathing (occasioually) they suggested I go to a sleep clinic and get tested - yep! I have sleep apnea - so now I wear a mask - which sends air (can't get dehydrated) and water) - like a humidifer and hopefully it will work - will keep you posted - and my health insurance covers it all - so.....you may want to think about this could be you........

This is probably the single most hilarious thing that I have ever seen. I woke up this morning with a huge red swollen uvula and one helluva case of cotton mouth. I've had a terrible sinus infection / bronchitis thing going on for about 4 days now. Thing is... I didn't know the little punching bag thing was called a uvula... I thought it was an epiglottis. I google for swollen epiglottis and get all these results about epiglottitis, and how its a medical emergency that can cause a person to suddenly suffocate. Anyhow I did what any normal person would do, I FREAKED OUT COMPLETELY and drove to the ER. Come to find out its my uvula, not my epiglottis. Now i'm sitting here laughing my ass off waiting for the thing to get a little smaller so I can breathe.

Tyler

LoL,,, this is intense, im 16 m canada the date is
dec 19 2004.. this morning and i woke up mouth as dry as a sponge, so right away i ran to get a glass of water apon drinking the water i could feel the lump "uvula" keep getting caught in my throat ,,, so i went too a look, and holy shit it was the size of a marbel,,,instantly i ran to my computer were i found this ive been drinkin cold water and gargeling with mouth wash and salt , and the swelling is going down alot.. now, if we all ran to google for an explanation on this , man LoL.. i magine i we woke up with third leg lolz
neways thank u so much for the people who provided the information to make it better,!

quote from Sheldon Cohen, MD from Miami
"Additionally, there is a college fraternity contest where much beer is drunk before going to sleep, then seeing who has the biggest uvula in the morning. There is apparently a relationship between uvula swelling and beer ingestion. So, if your uvula becomes swollen after a night of beer drinking, you have your answer"

Hi all-

Fellow first time uvula choker here! And, like all of you, I probably think that I hold the current uvula size record (lol). I think my cause was mixing meds with alcohol- an allegic reaction maybe. I have been nearly 24 hours, and nothing seems better, but I have heard from the doc (who like all docs will cover their ass by telling you to hit the ER). Afterward, he said if it were him, he would bulk up on the Benedryl and gently gargle salt water about once an hour. Good hydration is important as well... Best of luck to you all, this is one of those things you can't seem to just sleep away cause of the choking, but if you can find something to take your mind off of it, this makes things considerable easier.

Best Wishes....

So I woke up the other day with my uvula swollen... and I thought it was because I was sick just the day before and I never really stopped to rest so much. A little but not enough like I should. So its been a few days (3) and its still swollen some. Its gone up and down. So today I'm in panic mode and all worried. My wife tells me its most likely a viral thing but I just wanted to see who else had this problem. So like many others I hit up google and this is were I ended up.
So I'm going to try a few different things that I've read here and see how they work before taking a trip to the Dr. I clearly need to drink more water and less coffee. Plus I'm still battling a solid cold, which might have something to do with it. This has just never happened to me before and I'm generally a very heathly person... can't really remember the last time I needed to see a Dr about being sick... so when this happened it made me nervous.

Thanks
-John

I battled a case of tonsillitis that came back a couple of weeks later. I woke up one morning with a swollen uvula and it totally freaked me out. I thought if it swelled any further, I'd suffocate. I went to the doctor, and he did nothing for me. I couldn't believe it. He acted like it was no big deal that my uvula was 3 times in normal size and actually hanging down to my tongue. Well, after almost 48 hours, it never went away and my throat was all swollen as well. I ended up just going into the emergency room and they shot me up with steriods and painkillers. And then the swelling went down immediately. And then got a hefty $3000 bill. Luckily my insurance went ahead and paid for it.

If this ever happens to me again, and it hasn't gone away withing 24 hours, instead of going to the ER, I now know to go into a clinic or my doctor and demand a prescription for dexamethazine or another similar type of steriod to reduce swollen tissue along with an antibiotic too.
- J

Wouldn't you know.....Christmas Eve and my uvula is swollen, long and dangly. It's pink and shiny and sitting on my tongue! Ick!

I did have many beers last night, and I was singing loudly til 1 in the morning... I woke up on my back (rare for me) and snoring loudly. I kept trying to clear my throat, then it felt like a tonsil was being ripped off!! Scary!

I'm so thankful for this site!! I was ready to go to the ER. I hope it goes away soon!!!

A t-shirt suggestion:

"How big is your hangy thing?"

or

"Luvula" on the front, and "Proud Member of The Swollen Uvula Support Group" on the back

or for the women -

"I open wide for swollen uvula"

OK, I wanted to post a follow up for those of you interested to read this far down. I did take a few benedryl, and lots of water, but other than that, nothing else. I didn't talk much or eat a lot, or drink anything acidic in order to try to keep from irritating my uvula further, believe it or not, this can happen. It took 3 days, and my swelling went away. Back down to normal size... Good luck to everyone.

I wasn't drinking or doing any drugs, and had my smoking to a minimum.. but when I woke up I thought my cat had started swatting at my tonsils! Now it's dragging on my tongue and I just want to cut it off!!!

Chronically stressed and need some relief? valium may be the answer. From a class of medications known as benzodiazepines valium help regulate brain chemicals and allows you to regain control.

a thumb and a half is what mine is up to. i just got my tonsils out yesterday afternoon so for me that is probably why, its so hard to drink because i just swallow it, but i have some Lortab Elixer pain killer (generic is: Hydrocodn/APAP Elixer) so at least its not as bad as it could be. Damn my parents for waiting till i was 18 to get my tonsils out. But oh well, no more getting sick in the morning and no more tonsil stones. But it would be nice if this damn thing was not covering up my whole throat!

Wow! All this uvula talk is amazing. This has happened to me, especially after drinking hard liquor. All it takes to heal this is time and hydration.
By the way, I actually have a "uvula fetish".
I just love them!!!! But, I only like female uvulas. That's why I LOVE to watch Jessica Simpson or Kelly Clarkson sing. If they get decent closeups and lighting, I am in 7th heaven.
I swear, I am not a psycho or insane or anything. It's the only tweak I have. Otherwise, I'm your boring everyday guy! LOL
Thanks for the uvula talk!

art ( U )

Youvula gotta be kidding me? Mine is the size of a small town, or at least a large cocktail weiner. This is the 4th time for me in three years, and I've still not accepted it... but I know it won't kill me. Alcohol related and result of sleeping on my back (which I only do when I'm s-faced). "My uvula has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R...". Reassuring to hear all your stories. No worries-Keep your uvula up!

... must add to my comment above. I'm afraid I'm a little bored:

ODE TO A UVULA

There once was a man from Denver,
Whose uvula was once slight and slender,
He said as he gagged
on his big punching bag,
"Much bourbon a sore throat will render"

Cheers to all...
Don't surrender-Bobby

Get swollen uvula everytime visit folks. There christmas present to me is leaving me gagging. They leave central heating on all night. Will book into hotel next time.

Wow, this sucks, glad to know I'm not alone. I have a horrible head cold causing me to sleep with my mouth open and BAM...swollen uvula. Gotta love Google though!

I just joined the club today. it was very reassuring to see that it is common. my cause was drinking and smoking with no water at all the night before. i woke up after sleeping on the freezing couch without blankets or anything. it was really big and i panicked because i woke up choking on it.

After gargling salt water i couldn't detect any results. I drank water and it has been gradually receding. i'm glad i'm not alone. google search is a life saver. or at least a 600 dollar emergency room and allergy test run.

Glad I'm not alone..... what does a uvula do anyway!!!

another fine day... choke, gag, swallow, gag....

I have had this thing for three days! if the swelling doesn't go down soon, i am thinking about particularly sharp pair of scissors that i have....

I do snore horribly, but I now have a CPAP machine that i wear at night, so i shouldn't have been snoring that before I woke up with my uvula swollen.

I have done research on edemia of the uvula for the last two years because I keep waking up like this. I have seen websites that say it is related to everything from dehydration to ghonerreah (spelling).
I don't drink, don't smoke, don't have any allergies that i am aware of, and i can't say i have been dehydrated. I use anbesol or chloreseptic to num it up and chug a glass of water about ten times a day cause in my madness i keep thinking, "well maybe it is dehydration and surely water can only help".
Taking tylenol or ibuprofen helps cause i can't feel it choking me as much.
Gargling salt water 3 or more times a day with or without lemon juice = no help
benadryl = nothing
listerine = nope
tons of vitamin C = still holding out some hope as it just started to dose myself with it.

The doctors and physicians that I have talked to don't really have an idea of what caused it but they try to convince me that it caused by drinking alcahol (even if i tell them i don't drink, that's when they get stumped.) none of them have ever done a throat culture. if i go to a doc this time, i think i will demand that one be done. I have to know why this keeps happening. even though, i am without any health insurance right now, i gotta get this resolved.

well, good luck to everyone. I am thinking that if i get the scissors red hot, it shouldn't bleed too much.

driven crazy,

try these to add them to your list.

sucking on ice, or gargling with ice water. (If my ankle was swelling, I would put ice on IT) When I tried it, it seemed to help a bit, but i gagged to much. should've tried numming with chloreseptic like you mention.

drinking cranberry juice may help to fight bacteria. the following site suggests not using the sugar laiden juices, however... up to you.
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/substances_view/1,1525,10019,00.html

Garlic, may help as it is a nature antibiotic. http://pakavenue.com/webdigest/food_and_nutrition/article_04.htm

these are things that i will try next time. i don't have a swollen uvula right now, but I still keep my eye out for a quick cure. I have that damn thing swell up all too often.

oh, and if you do the red hot scissor thing, post back the result.

I am betting that you will have to see a doctor after that. but this time they might know what to do about it ;-)

thanks.

Bet the person starting this blog never thought they would also have a Uvula trama support group lol.

I'm 32 and just had my gall bladder completely removed in the UK. I got 4 cuts accross my stomach and (fairly) major internal surgery, but whats bugging me, you guessed it the old swollen uvula. I had a general anasthetic so it was the trauma of the tube down my throat that caused it!

I've just been put on antibiotics which are helping, salt water gargle was useless, but gargling with diluted asprin (spit don't swallow, not my usual advice, but not in this case) helps as it's a local anti-inflammitory.

Best of luck to you all - a felllow sufferer ;)

Thanks to Michelle for continuing to host this bizarre thread.
OMG I've been busting a gut, laughing. So, here's my addition...

Hello Club Members,

My name is 'K' (Hello K) and I have a swollen uvula.

Uvulitis appears, from both anecdotal experience and medical investigation, to have both dehydration and irritation, or infection, as its genesis. It can be the symptom of a severe disease - but that is the rarity. I've had it about six times in the past five years. I didn't panic, but I did resign myself to some hideous disease killing me quickly, as I googled the first time to discover my fate. Now I know that my wife will not become a widow, nor my children fatherless, because of my 'swollen dangly'. The only common denominator of my episodes, that I can honestly deduce from all of them, is dehydration. It is my thinking that alcoholic beverages, and dehydration, ALLOW the uvula to become infected or irritated in the cases of most of us. Irritation and dehydration. Never the less, perhaps there is something, either sulfitic or preservational, in the alcohol that WE, as a group, are allergic to or by which our uvulas become irritated. Surely, vomiting after a binge will irritate it. Swapping spit (or some other bodily fluid?!) with some 'cutey' when the uvula is weakened by alcohol might do it, too. Basically, as it seems from many of these posts, anything that irritates the uvula and weakens its protective ability (allergies, winds, cigs, etc) can bring on the 'beast'. As for today; last night I did have a glass of apple-wine several hours before bed. Also, two of the prior episodes were preceded by a nightcap of whiskey. As for doctors - my family and I don't use them. So, my remediants have been herbal or folkish. I usually drink a considerable amount more, than usual, of water (Nature's solvent), and gargle some slightly-salty water. Tea, with its tannic acid, seems to 'tighten it up', as well. The last episode I took, orally, some Oreganol (tm) oregano oil - which is highly antibacterial - and my uvula snapped back to normal within a few hours. I Always dose high on the Vitamin C when this occurs... My prognosis? Bacterial infection of the uvula caused by a weakening of its mucousy protective covering, due to dehydration and physical irritation of its surface area, or post-sickness swelling and secondary infection caused by a prior primary sickness (bacterial or viral). I would deduce by such a high number of anecdotes on here that this is also the entry point for post-uvulitis strep or cold viruses. Good luck, and treat your 'dangly' well.

Club T-Shirt Suggestion: "My Dangly Gets Big, Fat, & Swollen!" (Uvulitis Club Member)

or: "A Fat, Swollen, Dangly in the Morning? Yuck!" (Uvulitis Club Member)

OR "Wanna See my Hot, Pink, Swollen Uvula?!" (Uvulitis Club Member)

I woke up this morning after battling a horrible fever and felt wonderful, that is until I tried to swallow. At first my mouth was so dry that I had to convince myself I wasnt hallucinating by touching my tongue. It felt like a piece of rye toast!! I went to the bathroom and put water in my mouth to swish around then tried to swallow but there was something clogging that function. Opened my mouth, and there is was....a gleaming red globe grape shining for the world to see. What the hell are we to do? So like all of you I googled, found this site and now feel relieved. Sounds like a lot of us got it from a great night of drinking. What a party we could throw! Thanks for the advice and all the humor --Kristin

Hello well I have been amazed just how many people found this site - nothing to do with anything much but found itself listed high on Google and most finding answers here medical sites could not provide.

So what did I do? Wrote my own story on my own site so take a look and maybe you can send me some emails of experiences and an ideas to make www.uvula.tk a big group for us to hang out on.

Rob

www.uvula.tk

My story - send in your comments and ideas to make it a better site and things I can add and others can etc to: contact@uvula.tk

thanks
Rob

Yes. I am guilty. I have a tendency to spring out of bed and go straight to google as soon as ANYTHING is wrong with me. well, i had been having severe allergies all day yesterday so i took a little yellow pill called a chlortab (which work like a charm by the way, you just feel a bit loopy). i woke up early this morning with an incredibly dry mouth and rushed to the sink for some water. then i woke up around 12 pm and i noticed i had phlegm in my throat and i cleared out a big loogy. then i felt another HUMONGOUS one and tried to get it out. when i realized my attempts were doing no good, i rushed to my mirror and saw that what i thought was the phlegm, was really my uvula. just in the past couple of minutes i have already noticed it going down a bit so...i presume it was the allergy medicine combined with sleep and continuous air flow to my throat throughout the night.

Yep same here as with everyone. woke up after drinking last night and have a uvula that hangs down into my throat. it sucks i can't swallow or do anything. glad to know that i'm not going to die and that it will go away soon.

Oh my GOSH, you CAN find ANYTHING on the internet...I am cracking up right now reading everyone's post. I too was about ready to head to the clinic this morning because of my swollen uvula. I just thought it was called the hangy thingy in the back of your throat? lol Maybe now I will hang out for a while to see if it goes away-mine wasn't caused from drinking though-who knows what the hell it's caused from? But it sure is annoying.

Yet another person who found this via the web. I awoke gagging on the uvula like the worst phlegm in history. I had NOT been drinking nor felt dehydrated, but had a bad cold. I searched and found these posts.

At my wife's insistence I went to a clinic late in the day and was diagnosed with a viral infection of the uvula and a probable abcess. I was prescibed Zithro to ward off any secondary bacterial infection, but otherwise advised to relax and follow the general cold/flu home care...and a follow up appointment to check for abcess.

A friend who is a nurse practicioner (formerly an Army medic, EMT, and later an Army nurse) advised that seeing the doctor was a smart move. He's seen people with this (when coupled with sinus congestion) suffer sleep-apnea type injuries - heart problems, stroke, memory loss, etc.

My advice to anyone who stumbles into this.

1. Do not panic, you are not in need of an ambulance ride or 911.
2. Drink cold water, salt water gargle, whatever gives relief
3. DO see your doctor, especially if you have a cold or other symptoms. They probably won't do anything that will immediately help, but can rule out that "1%" chance that you pink dangly has a bigger problem.

Just found this website, great stuff. I too, woke with a swollen uvula yesterday and chalked it up to a sore throat, but when it continued when i woke up this morning, I further investigated and found it to be my uvula.

I just had a root canal and had been prescribed penicillin for the infection. The swelling and pain in my uvula happened the morning after the first 2 doses of the penicillin. I used my wife's Nursing textbooks to come to the conclusion that I had a Anaphylaxis allergic reaction. I stopped the penicillin and started taking some benadryl, as suggested from the book. If it doesn't clear up by tomorrow, I'll be going to the doc.

Swollen Uvula Sufferers of the World Unite!

My name is Mike and I have Uvulitis...swollen uvula from drinking more alcohol than water, and sleeping next to a cold window.

Happens often, but now I am going to drink water all day like I am supposed to, that way I can have a few drinks at night and not have the dreaded uvula issue. Can't they just snip that useless little punching bag out? What is it good for? I heard it is a developmental leftover, where the 2 sides of the pallette form together during development of the fetus.

Let's definitely get t shirts and start a support group!

Woke up this am (fighting a cold)and like all the others on this site I thought what I felt in my throat was mucous, so tried to cough it up. Got confused b/c nothing came up and I gagged, so looked in mirror at my "hangy thing" and freaked out! I COULDN'T EVEN SWALLOW. This little bugger swelled up like a gumdrop! I am pregnant, haven't drank in 6 months....but I am a bad snorer! And my entire family is fighting a cold, too. This is the strangest thing that has happened to me, but I am glad to see I am not alone. If I can muster down some water w/o gagging, I'm gonna try. Numbing agents seem to help a little, too (halls cough drops/chloreseptic). Good luck swollen hangy thing friends!

Woke up today with a swollen uvula. This has happened about a dozen times over the last 20 years. It seems to be related to lots of outdoor activity and not enough water (allergens and dehydration?) A Federal Grant needs to be made to figure out how to move this swelling from the uvula to the penis.

I too can relate to the swollen uvula. I've been dealing with it for 12 years. And of course, it is the most horrible unexpected thing to happen to me. I've been to an ENT doctor in the past and he has suggested to clip the uvula off half way. Unfortunately, my insurance I had at the time refused to pay for the surgery. I do have another appt. in February and hopefully since I have another insurance provider the surgery will be covered. I will keep everyone updated.

I was drinking and I woke up and puked and I could swear it was stomach acids that burned my uvula. Anyway its been two days now since it happend and it still hurts like hell. I have been drinkin a ton of water after reading some of these posts and I will try the benadryl and ibuprofen. Any other ideas?

Didn't notice anyone in here mentioning one of the newer procedures for constant swelling of the uvala (often from open mouth snoring). It is called Injection Snoreplasty. A caustic agent is put on the throat to shrink the soft pallet and the uvala. I just had it done a week ago. You have a sore throat for about 2 weeks. Usually one procedure does it, sometimes it takes two. They deaded your throat, then inject the solution (usually Sotradecol). I've heard mainly good results from it. I'm hopeful.

I have had a swollen uvula for three days now, and today I started getting worried. I thought I had some strange tumor or disease in my throat.....I called the doctor's. They never even thought of this! So, thank God I came on here and looked! Also, does anyone have a foul taste in their mouth? I wasn't feeling sick at all, but that taste in my mouth is making me think I am comming down with something.
Thanks everyone for having the same problem I do!
This is a real pain, but at least I know I am not going to die.
I will try the water and asprin.

Hi,

Just thought I would drop a line, I have a swollen member right now as well. I live in England so a trip to the Dr is part of our national insurance contribution (tax) so it did not cost me anything to go

I woke up to find that Mine was swollen to the point that it hung on top of my tounge and was quite obstructive to my swallowing.

The Dr said that it was mostly as a result of smoking or perhaps an infection, he gave me antibiotics to take, but I do in fact believe that since I have been to see him (this morning), my Uvula has actually decreased in size, I have been taking paracetemol and have not even taken the antibiotics as of yet.

I was in a trade show in a big Expo Hall almost all day and on and off the tube, hence I believe I got over dry. However I would not rule out the possibility of an allergy of some sort as I did not present any other of the usual sore throat symptoms or ingesting of any alcohol the night before.

Great to see everyones post here, Even though I would love to trust the Dr 100%, I have watched too many episodes of ER.

Kind Regards

William

Here I was thinking I was the only person in the world who had Uvulitis. I first got it about 8 years ago. Woke up Christmas Eve day at 5 am gagging and scared to death. I tried to show my husband and was gagging when I'd open my mouth. To this day he still laughs at me when I tell him my uvula is swollen. When I went to the ER, dumb ass doctor had NO clue what the problem was, and gave me a whole course of predisone to treat it. And stupid me, I took it. ONly to have this happen to me over and over again.
It usually happens twice a year, always in the winter. And my mouth is as dry as the Saraha desert. I read online somewhere it is sometimes treated with abuterol. So today when it happened, I took a hit of my husband's inhaler. It seemed to have worked, but usually by the end of the day its better anyways.
I like a few of the postings am a horrific snorer and have been fighting the nasty congestion that goes along with a cold.
Go figure!

Very reassuring to find this site. This is the second time I've had this problem. The first time was with a cold, so I figured it was just part of the sore throat. But this time, no cold, no sore throat, just a swollen uvula. And yes it is comforting to know I'm not the only one whose hypochondriasis led them to this site. It's been all day and mine is still pretty swollen, I'm definitely bookmarking this page for my future hypochondriacal comfort.
thanks, tim

MY UVULA GOT SO BIG IT BURST !!!!!

"Phenergan, A common over the counter antihistamine (in Australia), reduced swelling and did give some relief"

Before I start I am the kind of person that will live with symptoms and prelong any visit to the DOC, I'm glad I found this site to find out that I am not the only one who has been scared s***less by their uvula.
I havn't read all the comments but my uvula seemed to be a bit different.
My uvula grew gradually over a week to point where it hung down and I could feel a lump in it.
This scared the hell out of me as I am a smoker and I thought I had cancer. All I could think of was my wife and my 15mth old daughter growing up and not knowing her Dad, (OK I'm a stressor).
I saw my doctor the next day. He told me it was probably a lesion caused by snoring and booked me in for sleep apneo test. (which will be done in a couple of days)
My uvula continue to grow over the next few days and the lump was trying to reach my stomach, it was never sore over the whole time but it was becoming increasing uncomfortable to swallow and even talk, with what felt like 3 peas dangling down my throat.
I went back to see the doc (same practice, different doctor) begging for some sort of test or scan to at least find out what it was. His diagnosis was a cyst and that within a week it would burst and I would experience a bad taste down my throat and the uvula would go back to normal. He said before I got to that stage, some of my glands would get sore and swell to fight it. He also said it would be an EXTREMELY rare place for a cancer to grow. However to relief my mind he gave me a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT), he went on to add that he wouldn't mind betting it would be gone before I got an appointment with an ENT.
The following day (Friday), it felt like it was still getting bigger and uncomfortable, and the glands in my neck were hurting, my tounge was hurting as well from trying to stretch it back to keep the thing out of the way
Well the Doc was spot on, if he'd had some money on it he would be collecting. I was driving home from work the following day, I coughed, gagged, spluttered and gagged again and my mouth filled up with this crap that felt like I had sucked a boil. I had to spit out the window, pull over and continue clearing mt throat and mouth. The doctor saying a bad taste was quite an understatement.
The vile taste was quickly overshadowed by the feeling of utter relief i felt that it was not only gone but I wasn't dying nor was it going to choke me to death.
It's Saturday morning now and I am still feeling great about my uvula, I've got the sleep test on monday night and seeing the ENT on Tuesday, I'm keeping these appointments to hopefully learn more about why I got the cyst in the first place.
I'll post again if I get some good information.

The internet never ceases to amaze me...."swollen uvulas, A discussion". Glad i found this page tho, mine feels like U2 are playing a gig in it to a 300,000 audience. I do wish they'd all go home and let my uvula shrink back........aaaaaarrrrrrggghhhhh! "cough", "gag"..

I think I may have found the dumbest reason yet for my swollen uvula. I nailed it by accident with my water pik Sunday and it has been swollen and painful ever since. Duh. I'll know more after the doctor appointment in the morning

Pretty amazing, isn't it? the Internet? ;oP I got up and googled 'swollen uvula.' How many people actually knew what it was called and didn't have to go look it up somewhere else before finding this blog? Heehee >;o)

Yup, I woke up this morning at 6:36AM PST to that ugly feeling of a big lump of phlegm/snot in my throat and tried to swallow a couple of times to no avail. Crap, not again. I think this has happened like 4 times in 6 years now. I haven't been drinking, and dehydration might be a factor; I need to talk to doc about it.

In my case, I like to sleep with the window open. The GF and I also run an air purifier/filter in our bedroom but I like to keep it on low when we are in the room because the high airflow *will* dehydrate you as well. I have a large bladder (males have a bladder half again the size of females, w0ot!) and usually hydrate well before bed, so I doubt that I am too dehydrated. I have a feeling that excessive snoring will actually physically beat up the uvula and cause it to flood with fluids to protect itself, or to try to minimize the damage. I think snoring is mostly the uvula and the flap of skin at the back of your throat separating your mouth and the bottom end of your nasal airways flapping around.

Of course, allergies, cold symptoms, they all could play a factor. I wondered if this was at all related to sleep apnia, but that will take more research. I found that the best way to help is to hydrate any way possible without using sugar . Gargling with saltwater can help reduce swelling by...dehydrating the little sucker! Another great remedy is to drink tea with lemon and a wee bit of *honey.* Honey is an amazing natural antibiotic that might help keep down any lurking infection waiting to jump on your little pal back there while it is down and out. Have you *ever* seen anything like a mold growing on honey that has been in the pantry for a loo0o0o0ng time?

Glad I found you all out here! Good luck taking care, I will keep my eyes peeled for more good info. ;o)

Just another swollen uvula Googler, here.

Thank God for the internet, where at least one other person always has the same weird problem you do. Looks like it's time for some warm salt water. Yum.

Well, according to Doc it was not strep. A steroid shot and course of anti-biotic for the bacteria infection and I am in pretty good shape now.

I copied this from a friend who emailed it to me. Sounds like she is worried and you will know more why I say that. She says: I really need help here, and for someone to be honest about what preceeded my swollen uvula incident. (By the way, Iam a first time poster to this site, as I had never had a swollen uvula. Although looking back, there probably are a dozen or so times it was swollen, but I didn't realize that was why my throat felt funny.) Here is what happened to me, still am not sure what it actually was. I had been sick for about two weeks (cold or flu like symptoms, running fever, etc. for a day or two, thenfelt better for a day or two, would start running a fever, then get the cold symptoms again. It was very wierd but my boss had the same exact symptoms). Anyway, I had finally pretty much recovered from that, but occasionally my nose would be stuffy or runny. While I was at work the day of the Horrific Incident, I did not have hardly anything to drink, which I usually do nursing a diet Coke all day. Right after work, a friend came by as I was leaving, and we did some illicit drug through the nose (you know what I mean). It was not a huge about, but was done pretty quickly. I drove myself home, and about 30 minutes after that, I walked my dog about a half of a mile, hadn't eaten all day because I am trying to lose weight. Anyway, I came back, dropped the dog off and then went out to walk, with new arm weights. I walked about 1.5 miles very hard, slinging the weights, when I began to notice that my vision was blurry. (She did not say this part, but I will tell you she is about 30 pounds over weight and this was the first time she had exercised that hard in about 4 months.) Anyway, noticing my vision was getting blurry, I walked over to a tree, and realized I was very dizzy and my heart was racing. I stumbled home about a mile away, taking frequent breaks. My head was tingling and I was shaking like a leaf. I really got scared when I started having trouble swallowing. That part was getting worse, and I was convinced that my air passage was going to close up and I would die. I got home and drank cranberry juice and ate a piece of bread. I had a friend who was an LPN come over, she thought it might be from a blockage in my heart arteries in the neck. I thought it was an allergic reaction. I never had trouble breathing but I did have something in my throat, like a flap or something that seemed like it was flapping when I breathed in. Anyway I was freaking out and would have gone straight to the ER if I had had insurance or if breathing had become difficult. It lasted about 4 hours. Now tonight, about 3 days later, I had a strang feeling come up in my throat very suddenly, same as before, except no shaking, etc. (She did take some sinus medicine that night.) I immediately sat down and drank cranberry juice. It passed within an hour, but I went to look at my throat and my uvula was extremely enlarged. I found you guys, I immediately felt better and did not panic, I think that helped. I looked up anaphylactic shock and have all the symptoms for this, but no difficulty breathing. Also, I have many symptoms for anxiety disorder. I am not a hypochondriac, but I need to know. What do you think caused this?????

I woke up this morning and immediately started gagging like crazy. I thought it was my uvula, but i didn't even know the word for uvula, all I knew was that when i was little my parents said it was your "mini-tongue". So feeling like a fool, i googled it and finally found uvula. With all these sites around, i still can't find an answer as to why it occurs. I took quite a few zopiclones (imovane) before going to bed so i don't know whether that could have something to do with it....will it go away?

I had my first swollen Uvula about ten years ago. I would always panic and go to the emergency room and they would put me on Prednisone (steroid) for ten days which made me feel like crap and did not seem to help at all.
This condition seems to hit me about three or four times a year.
Over the years I have learned not to panic and found that if I take three Benedryl Allergy Tabs every five or six hours, I am back to normal in 24 hours.
At this moment, I can't talk very well because at 9:15am this morning, I had more than half of my Uvula snipped. I should also mention that my Uvula was extremely large even when it was not swollen. So tonight I have swelling and pain, but it will pass.
Glad to have found this page after all these years.

Google->"Swollen Uvula" ->February Stars->mental relief.

My uvula has swelled twice. The first time was because my doctor gave me some sort of shot. I think it was a mega-dose of an antibiotic (it was awhile back). My doc told me to expect my uvula to swell. In fact it swelled to the size of my middle finger. I spent the day playing with it. flopping it forward. floping it back. making funny sounds. asking my friends if they wanted to see my hideously swollen uvula.

Today, however, I woke up with a swollen uvula for no good reason. No drinking. No dehydratioin. The only thing that makes sense (except for something drastic) is that my snoring, for the first time, combined with some initial irritation, started a cycle of irritation which led to that big fat hangy thing.

The good news after reading this thread, is that virtually nobody has come back reporting something "serious."

Damn... I drank too much last night! I hate having this swollen uvula problem!! This is the second time its happened to me and both times I got really trashed the night before.But this time I decided I would look it up on the internet, and I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person this has happened too. I usually just eat icecream... It seems to help!

Wow! I loooove Google. Just like all the others I woke up with that Phlemmy feeling. Went into to take my morning pills ( after 40 you have to take pills to stay alive). As I tried to swallow all hell broke loose and it felt like each pill was encountering fullback protecting his quarterback. I peered in the mirror and discovered that my Uvula had indeed assumed the size of a fullback (actually about the size of my pinky). What to do? what else , Google... Dang I hit the jackpot with this little blog. You have both eased my fears and amused me greatly. Thanks to the guy that wrote the little poem, Very funny. I think after reading many of the posts I know what caused my little buddy to muster his forces. Last night as I dosed on the couch I awoke with a start and felt like I was choking. I have a bit of sleep apnea and from time to time wake up to this feeling. I felt like some saliva went down the wrong pipe and had to clear my throat while choking a bit. This went on for a while and I could feel the irritation building. After about 10 minutes everything settled down and I was left with a slightly irritated throat. No biggie... but alas I woke this morning with the big red one ( and not in a good way). I, like the rest of the troubled members of this not so little club, worried that some heinous malady had overtaken me. Thanks to your many posts and good humor I now know that I am a member of a large and swollen community and not likey to die from this just yet.
Thanks for your stories and this site as well
Joe
Ps
Don’t drink, don’t chew, just a little tubby but that’s nothing new.

Well I woke up with the uvula swollen and elongated to about the size of my thumb. It hoits pwetty bad. After reading all the nightmare stories I can think of a few contributing factors. #1-I was cleaning a window yesterday that had some mold on it (probably breathed in some nasty spores or something) #2 I was having trouble getting to sleep so I took a couple sedatives.*(zombifies me and TOTALLY relaxes every muscle in my body to where I don't even toss or turn) and #3 I'm a chronic snorer if I am in the right position. My wife usually pokes me till I roll over and stop but she gave up last night as I was comatose. She said I was making some really wEiRd nOiSeS and I scared her (the speed bag number on my uvula no doubt) Now I am searching all over the net for ideas on how to nip this in the bud so it doesn't happen again. More gargling with listerine before bed and maybe a CPAP mask? Interested in hearing from others that have snoring troubles and alternatives to the CPAP.....TIA, Frank

High everyone

im 16 havent recently drank alcohol but just had a soar throat
my uvula has swolen to great lengths it touching my tongue and its just feels wrong. im drinking lots of liquids but i dont think thats helping. Ive had it for about 22 hours and it hasnt gotten any better. i went to the doc yesterday and he perscribed amoxsicilin for my ear infection and mucinex dm for my conjestoin. I have no idea whats going on and its really scary. My uncle is a doctor and says to wait it out but its so uncomfortable. Plus a recent ear ache after teh infection has formed in my right ear. I cant sleep for fear im gonna die. someone please email me or post.

Thanx

heh isn't it great that none of us can find any medical sites to fix this damn thing? this is the second time its happened, the first time i freaked out and it went away after about a day or two. this time i woke up and was just generally pissed more than worried. i hadnt been able to sleep and had a beer to try and get myself tired which it did because i slept for 20 some odd hours, then woke up with this damn thing. oh well it'll clear up, just treat it like a sore throat.

Well I have read all of your posts and now I am freaking out. The good news is that this seems to be a common problem and lucky for you it comes and goes. I have had a swollen uvula for 4 fucking years now and it won't go away. I have been to 4 different ear, nose and throat doctors who all tried prescribing me different inhalers and allergy medications but they didn't do a damn thing. I am considering surgery to just have the damn thing laser reduced but I am a singer in a band and part-time karaoke host so if anything goes wrong I lose both of my jobs and you'll see me waiting tables in a shitty restaurant again. I wake up every night at least twice gagging. Get up go to the bathroom and hock up a nice array of phlegm, drink another glass of water and try to go back to sleep. Well next month after I do some more research it's laser time and if that doesn't fix it I'm gonna move to Canada to see if their healthcare system is more competent than ours. Venting is nice and I feel a little better GAG!!!!

Well I'm glad I found this site this morning at 5:00 am when I woke up with the driest mouth ever and what felt like a hair ball in the back of my throat. I coughed and spit and carried on for a while then grabbed a flashlight and nearly freaked out when I saw what was in the back of my throat. I was sure it was cancer and visions of a tracheotomy were dancing in my head. I swore off smoking for the rest of my life if God would only let me live.....then.....I googled swollen uvula, cause I remembered something from High School anantomy and physiology....and thanks to you guys, I relaxed, called off work, took a benedryl and called my doctor.

The doctor really didn't say what caused it, just that the uvula is a very vascular part of the body and when it is irritated it swells quickly and swells large. He put me on predinsone, told me to gargle with listerine twice a day, and since taking the first pill the swelling has gone down.

Glad I didn't run to the ER, that saved me some big bucks. Thanks all.

Wow I can not beilive so many people have the same thing. after a night of drinking woke up with uvula several times larger
went to MD and got some steroids
was told it could be dehydration, allergic reaction or tramatic.. possible from snoring or apnea

same deal here.... never in my life that i can remember has this happened to me..... im not a drinker, but i AM a heavey smoker (been wanting to quit, but just dont have the willpower)

anywho.... been drinking water like a freak since i found this site (good ole google) hope that it goes away soon, because its really getting on my nerves...

welp, here it is 330 in the morn, and still the swelling isnt reduced a bit, ive tried everything... this is really bugging me.... it doesnt really hurt, its just agrivating as all get out....

More often than not, Uvularic swelling results from a combination of things. 1) dehydration: Alcoholic beverages the night preceeding; mouth hanging open all night. 2) irritation: snorring, snorring, snorring;

thank god for google...i woke up this morning and my uvula was the size of my pinky...i was going to go to the ER like everyone else, but before i did i checked Google

good to see its not that serious..the swelling kinda went down after 3 hours but it still hurts...i'm going to try the salt water in a few minutes hope that helps it too

thanks to everyone who posted

Thank you for writing these Uvula Chronicles. I did not drink booze or smoke, but this morning mine is elongated, rests on my tongue or down my throat, hurts a bit, and I feel a constant urge to swallow and/or clear my voice. I suspect my “uvulation” is the result of sleeping in a cold room (no heat, open window). Apparently, I cannot keep my mouth shut even while asleep. My spouse says this proves once and forever that she is right about my failure to “never shut-up.” Sipping water helps and based on your “horror-scopes” there is no need for medical intervention. My city is a haven for “doctors-to-be.” I fear they will excise everything seen and unseen and when it is over I will be labeled the first, unsuccessful total head-transplant in history. I also bet that a "uvulaectomy" (sic) is on that secret list of items forbidden and/or regulated by my health insurance. Thank you for your advice and may your uvulas “hang-in there” [vs. blocking your throat).

Just tossing my name into the hat, woke up with this little problem today and, like many of you, went to Dr. Google for the answer. Here's a few notes on the circumstances leading up to this morning-
+ Friday night and Saturday night I drank, it had been a few weeks since I drank heavily, and I drank heavily. Not trashed drunk, but a significant ammount. I usually try to drink a bottle of water before bead to avoid hangover, but I did not. I did not, however, suffer the symtoms of hangover either day and my uvula was 'ok' until today (Tuesday)
+ Last night (Monday) I had a softball game, it's just about spring time so I was around a lot of dust from the field, grasses, trees and weeds surrounding the park. It was somewhat colder that afternooon as well, a definate 10-15' less than the weekend where we had really nice weather.
+ I passed out sleeping on the couch last night, the couch backs up to a large living room window at the apartment that's relatively thin.
+ I snore, regularly. I do not generally take any allergy medicines.

My guess is dehydration broke it down from a few different directions. Drinking, the colder weather change, playing sports, being outside, etc all kept my hydration levels low across several days causing this.

As for remedies, I've been keeping the swelling down and the hydration up with cold water, power-aide, etc.

My uvula is extremely long, like it rests on my tounge, sometimes it even seem slike a piece of it is hanging off the tip. What should I do? The doctor said to see a specialist but I'd rather not...

What a way to spend a saturday night! I've not been googling to find out what it is - I was seeing if I could find a good tip to stop it annoying me!

Anyway - I get this all the time, and personally I've found that there are 2 reasons why I get it.

1. Tonsillitis - I used to get it every 6 months or so and it was a form that always erupted in ulcers at the back of my throat. I once got one on the tip of my uvula - that was extremely unpleasant - I managed to bite it by accident!! Antibiotics get rid of it.

2. Alcohol. I've had it countless of times now. The first time I assumed I'd got tonsillitis again so I wasn't freaked out. But I've had it enough now to know how I got it. I only get it the morning after a heavy drinking session but I only get it when I am by myself. I snore when I drink and my wife always hits me when it gets bad so I wake up and roll over. When I am alone I end up lying on my back and snore my head off. (I've woken up like this) I've never had it when not alone. Dehydration plays a part (with the whole alcohol thing) but I usually drink a substantial amount of water before going to bed.

The only prevention methods I've found are to stop yourself snoring. If you can stop yourself lying on your back that will help. (Various methods like tennis balls and stuff to make it uncomfortable) I've also tried that stop snoring spray stuff you can buy. It sprays onto your uvula and sort of numbs it and the last time I used it it seemed to work.

If you are googling in a panic then if you are hungover then it is pretty likely then there is nothing wrong. Drink a lot of water. Usually it will go down a bit quite quickly and within 24 hours will go away altogether. If you are having trouble breathing then go to the hospital. OK, it might cost money but it is too big a risk. If it doesn't calm down or go away then see your doctor.

If you do get it a lot and it is becoming a problem then they can do stuff to your throat to prevent it. Google on sleep disorder treatments.

Hi,

Man thank god! i am not the only one becuase i been drinking Wiskey for almost month and after that i started feeling something in my throat that keeps thicking me and i thoaght what the hell! but when i found out the this is my uvula i freaked out. Know i am going to visit to doctorjust so i can feel better that this will go away. but this posting does help that means were not alone. thanks everybody.....~

What an honor it is to join the Uvula club.

I've had a sore throat for a number of days, so I just started taking some antibiodics yesterday. Like another poster, I think I have some sort of allergic reaction to the meds. So, I think I'll hold off on the antibiodics for the next day or two and see if that can help my cough-inducing, puke-threatening, slimy, long and pink uvula.

Good luck everyone...

'tis freaky.

Can't sleep, can't relax. Therfore I decided to get truly drunk.

Goddamn uvula, I like to talk alot, this is kind of restricting that part of the coming evening.

Fellow humangous uvula owner.

Do you guys realize this Uvula posting has been going on for a year now? Each contributor has lended their own special uvula story...probably creating the densest uvula page ever Googled. So here's mine- I had nasal surgery 3 days ago to widen the passages so that I could get more air flow/air pressure, solve some ear problems. Two days ago I wake up and my morning coffee HURTS... it's burning. I look in the back of my throat and my uvula is extra long, while the lower 1/3 is greyish. Is it infected? Is it 'extrude' which you get on surgical sites and goes away in 10-12 days? Can the uvula itself become infected? I'll know tomorrow when I see the doctor... in the meantime, I know to keep up the fluids y'all have been recommending.

NasalSurgeryRecoverer and Fellow UvulaObserver

This thread is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I had my first case of uvulitis about 6 months ago and was incredibly freaked out, mostly because no one I knew had ever had or heard of it happening. After it went away after a day, I figured it was just from over-indulgence. It happened again this weekend and I stumbled on this forum. Great to know were not in this alone...

Yeah Ive just got over another case of swolen uluva. For me its usally caused my excessive drinking and smoking , ive also had it accur after a spicey curry. I do snore quite loud and that seems to dry it out. Also it it accur if you have scrated it on a sharp peice of food like toast for example. Its always scary when you wake up with it gagging and choking , ive had it 5 or 6 times now it sucks , but dont worry with plenty of water and not talking for a day i found it quickly goes away. Good luck to you all.Take care of your dangly things !!!

Regards James Regan , United kingdom

I found a white spot on my uvala. I went to the doctor and he said "Wow I never saw that before". I have a appointment with a ear nose and throat specialist Friday. Has anyone heard of a white spot/growth/lesion?

Wow..It is good to know that I am not alone...the doctors have no clue here so they put me on ATBS and sent me home....Does anyone have any idea how long it will remain swollen for..it is making me crazy, and it only began 16 hous ago???

Thanks

Be careful.

I don't drink or smoke, but I got those uvula blues. When after two days, all the water drinking in the world didn't help, I went to see an ENT. He asked me if I had had any spicy or temperature hot food, and of course I did (homemade chicken wings). He diagnosed me with herpes. So I'm on steroids and valtrex. It's my sore throat that bothers me, along with the uvula.

I woke up on April 10th while on vacation in Buenos Aires with moderate difficulty breathing and a very sore throat. I took a hot shower and could barely breath and began to get very worried. I tried to spit out what was in the back of my throat and ended up spitting out a modest amount of blood. I then looked at my throat and found that my uvula was about 3 -4 times the normal size and resting on my tongue. I used my best spanglish to converse with a pharmacist and started Zithromyacin(over the counter in Argentina). As soon as I got to Patagonia I googled "swollen uvula" and found this thread. My uvula is finally close to normal size 5 days later but I knew to keep myself hydrated and take antihistamines based on other input on the thread. Significant airplane time, dry hotel rooms, and higher elevation in the Andes were probably the culprits. Thanks.

Well everyone it's about 2:30 in the afternoon and I have been up all night. I would have to say that a large chunk of my day went to reading, I don't know... I YEARS worth of posts. It seem that everybody for the most has more knowledge about uvual irritation and its causes than any doctor... (maybe we should offer a training course? and at the end all Dr's have to pound a beer while holding in a bong hit in a room blessed with secondhand smoke and heater on full blast)
Anyway..Yes, yes... extreme dry mouth, most likley dehydration...Only thing being that I've been sick with my usually life partner of chronic broncihtis who is always lovingly brought by the common cold...
Therefore, I think It took me about 6hrs. of trying to hack up what I thought was, as you can guess mucous out of my throat/lungs. I think I played the game of ohhhh! I think I got it this time, I know it, It has to come out, man it's gonna be hudge and rewarding. I'm sure you all know how this one ends only differance being that the back of my tonge is VERY painfuly sore and tender from all the pressure of my intense dedication of beliving I really could make this irritaion come out my mouth.
When I finally decided to take a flash light and loook down my throat I was unsure of what to think. It's like I had to second guess myself because I know that my uvala has always been there though usually I don't know it's average size, but distinctivley remember it not ever trying to making-out with my tounge. I think the major selling point for me is when I made the ahhhhhhhhhhh sound to look at my toncils and that freakin ball n' chain actully waved to me as if it were hang out a car window on the freeway.
The wierd thing is that I swear that I have been drinking more water then my norm and I haven't had a alcoholic bev. for over a week also not norm. Maybe, I'm having reverse affects to much water not enough alcohol I doubt it for some reason though, call it a hunch.

I went out for my birthday last night... 3 Jim Beam and Cokes, 1 Bud Light, and 10 shots. Today is the worst uvula day I've had EVER. And it didn't help that the most part of the night was spent laughing and yelling at the top of my lungs in between smoking almost a pack of cigarettes. Oh well, ya live and learn. :)

I'm not a drinker. I realized that this has happened to me when I snore like non other. I remember getting home from work around 5pm and took a little hour and a half knap and woke myself up because I was on my back snoring so damn loud that I woke up. Next thing I know my stupid uvula decided it didn't like what was going on and swelled up on me. This wasn't the fist time it happened, the first time was in college and I didn't know what to expect. I found I could swallow ok but I kept wanting to clear my nose because it felt like something was hanging on for dear life in the back of my throat and wouldn't let go. This has happend 5 or 6 times to me in the past few years and I realize it only happens to me after sleeping on my back and snoring louder than any human was ever supposed to snore. I just wait it out a few hours and I'm always fine. Later...

I played football today, it was about 30 degrees and I had a very dry mouth where my tongue was sticking to the roof of my mouth. After the game I had the sensation that you all know so well. I had never seen my uvula sit on top of my tongue before so I took myself off to a quack (doctor). He simply said infection and precribed antibiotics and to gargle salt water. I was fine before the game so I haven't had the pleaseure of trying to sleep yet!

Just wanted to join in. I have had the uvula problem for about 10 years. I doesnt happen often, but when it does, it scares the crap out of me. The first time i had a panic attack when I seen it, so that took my mind off of it for about a half hour. Then I checked on it every 2 minutes. lol. Now I'm use to it. I don't get the panic attack, but i do get scared. I think I get it because of dry mouth. I always it get during the night. I find that moisture helps. I start to drink ice cold water and chew gum. It takes quite a few hours to go down, but it works. It is one of the scarest feelings to have, but now that I read all of the other comments, I feel better. The thing that bothers me now is the loss of sleep. I always seem to be woken up with the swollen uvula

Well I just ran into my first case of swollen uvula.
It started last week (probly from dehydration/smoking) and is still going on. I'm pretty sure I did some damage to it however, When I first felt the damn thing on the back of my tounge I kept trying to cough it up, well I kept coughing up what looked like little piece os skin, it was, from my uvula. So I just found out what I was hacking up like 3 days ago when I finally looked in the mirror and saw it hanging down on my tounge. So far I've tried the following
1. Motrin (To reduce swelling)
2. Allergy Medication
3. Drinking LOTS of water.
4. Gargling with salt water
5. Cough drops
I think it is going down now but I still feel the damn thing. I'm sure smoking doesn't help it much either. Well mine isn't too bad so I'm hoping it goes down here real soon.
By the way I think what helped me the most was the motrin,water and cough drops (for the numbing effect).

i just had surgery on my shoulder on monday and was on a painkiller called hydrocodone. well the combination of sleeping sitting up and taking the stupor inducing pills caused me to sleep with my mouth open (at least that is my theory). i also have allergies during this time of they year.

with my wife out of the house and my arm in a sling, i noticed that i had something in my throat. went down to look and i swear it looked like i had a wet finger growing out of my throat and pressing on my tongue. how big is it going to get? am i going to choke on it?

while i sit at the sink and ponder my next move, with my head down afraid to swallow, i called my wife and said "when are you coming home? my epiglottis is all swollen up!".

heh well obviously it was the uvula and not the epiglottis. i'm just gonna chalk it up to dry mouth and drink some water. if its not gone tomorrow i'll post.

I know the swollen uvula syndrome well.

I tend to mouth-breathe in my sleep and my throat often dries out if we get a cold spell. Well it happened a couple of weeks ago. Like most people I drank some fluids and it went away in a few hours. But there's more...

Three days later my uvula developed some white spots on it and it didn't go away. After two days of that I called my physician and described the symptoms. He prescribed some pen-VK. Two more days, the symptoms had gotten worse and I could no longer swallow my medication. Being a Sunday, I went to the ER (isn't managed care wonderful?) and was given a 'scrip for zithromax. This proved to be no more effective than the penicillin.

After nearly 9 days of gagging the problem seems to be going away by itself. I can only assume my sleep habits weakened the area so much that I got some kind of viral infection. Generally speaking there's not much you can do for that kind of situation but keep taking Advil and wait it out.

Just wanted to share this experience so people don't jump to the conclusion that it always goes away in 4-6 hours.

My uvula has declared war in my throat and I have been left to defend my person with an army that compares to likes of Jane Fonda!

Another common enemy in disguise is felatio, the kissin cousin of this tyrant that wages supreme domination of my industries.

My mother never hugged me much.

Maybe that's why I turned to a life of crime and punishment.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was my friend. He had a wonderful relationship with his uvula. I remember thinking if my uvula could foster a friendship with his then I might have a chance of winning the lottery.

Dick and I met one day during third period, a class devoted to tomfoolery and forget me knots.

I like cotton. Aaron Neville does too. Preferably on my body (that is pronounced boo-de.). -->>is there a grammar scholar on this Blog? Did you know that slaves (aka aunt jemima) were once forced to pick cotton? Funny that Aaron sings praises to the fabric that robbed his brethren of their ability to live a life of Christianity.

And thus the swollen uvula (once spelled uvuuulala) was born.

Flash forward to my graduation.

I never asked for the anal probe.

That’s all folks!

I haven't talked all day because the feeling of my uvula slapping against the back of my tongue makes me want to vomit. My husband is enjoying the quiet. :) I'm enjoying making him figure out all my hand signals. :0

Saw the doc, said it's because of having strep and tonsillitis too- I woke up this morning feeling like I'd swalled the dang thing all night long. I'm worried about what sleep will be like tonight, maybe I should just get really drunk (but drink lots of water, too!) before bed so I can sleep well! LOL

I'm gonna agree with the dryness diagnosis. I had a septoplasty on Tuesday and then beginning on Friday my uvula started getting longer. My doc's PA looked at it Saturday AM and just said that the uvula was reacting to a tube they had in my mouth during surgery (wrong!).

My nose is packed on both sides with sponges and splints so that I am forced to breath from my mouth. Therefore, I sleep for a few minutes, wake up, and sip on some water, and try to sleep again. My mouth gets dry really fast. I think that my uvula is like a cactus or something. It is growing out trying to get some freakin water.

But then again, for some reason yesterday am when the PA looked at it it had shrunk back down a little. After I drank water all day long by last night it was long again. This morning I have been drinking water and it is almost long enough to use as a scarf. I still think it is due to dehydration. I'm going to see the real doctor tomorrow to get my packing taken out of m y nose. Maybe that will make a diff or he will know something that the PA didn't.

Hello everyone,
I had my tonsils and adenoids removed 1 month ago today. Never had any promblems with my uvala. Not till Saturday. I went to th ER because i started to really panic. They gave me a shot of steriod. Then sent me home with a prescription for steriod. Felt good all weekend until this morning. The shot they gave me Sat. was suppose to last a couple of days. I wonder if I need another one because I don't think the prescription is strong enough. Oh well I will try to keep my mind off of it and just pray.
This thread is really great. I am glad I'm not alone with this annoying problem. May God bless everyone of you.

Unlike you all who woke up in the morning with a swolen uvula, today i went to the dentist! I was getting sealants on 6 teeth and that think that sucks the bad taste and spit away got caught on what i thought was deep in my throat but was really my uvula. Now my uvula is swollen and longer than usual, oh and it is now black on the end. It feels as though i have a constant piece of food on the back of my tounge that i cannot swallow. damn this sucks. how weird!!!!!!

I had woken at 5am and nearly coughed out my tonsils. I had the feeling of a huge loogy needing to be evacuated, but it was, you guessed it, a swollen uvula three plus times its normal size. It is so weird to have this divertical dangler drooping down my throat.
I am asthmatic so i dont need allergies bringing on attacks, i had seafood the previous lunch-time and white wine but dont normally get reactions like this. During the evening I had some beer and watched the football game with friends at the local pub then went for a curry (and more beer). But I've done this many times before so why the swollen clacker?
Phoning nhs direct medical assistance helpline to find out why my paniky wife was attempting to describe my symptoms....
'the dangly thing in your throat its your clack isn't it?
well I think some call it that..
we always called it that....
Well its really swollen what can we do... He cant swallow to good...
What?..vuvulla??..What is it called again?... Ulluvalla??..luvula.. Vulva !! (me ITS NOT MY VULVA!)
Oh ....Uvula ...I never heard of it....well hes got a swollen vulva can you send an ambulance....

Sent home with antibiotics.
Its 11.30pm and its still there. I started to play with it during the day stretching it over my tongue etc. but now i want it gone asap.

Having read other postings I feel the it was my booze consumption leading to deep sleep snoring and dehydration which caused it.
So I am calmer now knowing that I am not alone with this and assured that I will have my normal clack back soon.

Hello, my name is John...and I have a swollen uvula. God, it feels good to get that off my chest. My story seems typical. Drank wine, went to bed, woke up choking on uvula, googled "swollen uvula", and laughed at this site, only causing my uvula to become more irritated. Possible t-shirt idea: "Got Uvula?"

My uvula has been swolen for the past two days. This has happened to me around 5 or 6 times over the past 8 years. It has only happens after a big night of drinking, followed my a spin behind the wheel of the porcelain bus. It would seem the stress my poor uvula endures while calling dinosaurs at 5 am results in some swelling. Go figure. The good news is that this is the only time it happens, and always goes away after a day or so. I have found that avoiding solid foods as much as possible makes the experience more bearable. My advice: show as many people as possible how swolen your uvula is. They will really freak out.

Mine has become enlarged due to a drug allergy. Don't discount other kinds of allergies such as food or enviromental. People always say "Oh i've never had any allergies before" Allergies can crop up at ANY time for no reason at all, even if you've NEVER had allergies before. Good advice to see your ENT and allergist.

My son had this the first time when he was a teen. The Docs called in other Docs to see the freaky kid. He tells me he will still occasionally have it happen. A common factor for him is sitting by a bonfire the day before. Which goes along with the smoking and dry throat idea. He also has alergies so that could be it too. It freaked me out that's for sure.

Swollen uvula. Yep, that's what I woke up with too. Mine is a slightly different story though... I contracted viral Pinkeye (Conjunctivitis) and as it began to clear up after a week, I developed a secondary respiratory infection. This is not unusual and I was not concerned about the large amount of plegm I was coughing up. But yesterday morning, I woke up & thought I had a golf ball of plegm in my throat & I proceed to hack so hard that I vomited. Unfortunately I did not get rid of the golf ball, so shined a flashlight in my throat and EGAD- my uvula was 3 times its normal size. Not only that, but my eye was VERY red & swollen. At closer inspection through one good eye, I noticed that I had a lot of little red dots around both eyes. Having been Heimliched once I recognized them instantly- broken blood vessels around the eyes. Not dangerous, but it did cause my almost-healed pink eye to regress & now it looks awful. It feels fine & now that I know that the swollen uvula isn't a problem, then I'm not gonna worry. At least not about this! Basically, my uvula swelled due to mouth breathing & restricted airway (swollen from respiratory infection) and the broken blood vessels will heal on their own. Weird stuff huh? Just make sure it's not an infected Epiglottis & then ya can't worry about a swollen uvula.

Hey does anyone know if SWOLLEN UVULA is a taken a band name?

This is by far the best information....and the most entertaining site I have read in a long time!! Who knew??
Similar situation...webmd'd it...Googled "Swollen Uvula" and went through a range of possible solutions.
-Allergies (never had but ok)
-Dehydration (i do drink soda, under some stress, it's freakin hot out, and smoke)
-Strep (crap i am waiting for my health insurance to kick in)
-The punishment for meeting "that guy at the bar" and doing something naughty to him (first and last time doing that, that will teach me. come to think of it he hasn't called recently (a-hole))
-Cancer (should I start giving away my stuff?)

Needless to say I love each and everyone of you for sharing!! I feel so much better and as if I have found a group who understands me...yes we do need T-shirts and hats ok. You have also saved me $$$ for not going to Urgent care.....bless u all!!!
Monica

woke up this morning with the swollen uvula blues,
I guess that's how I have to pay my dues.

Last night I drank scotch, sake, and beer,
No gin so I thought I was in the clear.

Well I guess it goes to show,
what causes it I'll never know.

I can't believe all the comments about everyones uvula. yep, mine too.

Thanx for all the posts guys i thought it was something serious. I feel fine just feels like i have to hock a loogie all day...thanx for the reasurrance.

Let me join the google club ;)

Woke up this morning after a night of heavy drinking and sleeping on the couch to the 2x size uvula. pretty crappy. gotta be the alcohol. i wonder why this hasnt happened to me before.....

Excellent...a stressed Uvula support group. I too have a major phlegm like appendage attached to the back of my throat where my uvula once was. Only I got mine as an allergic reaction to grass pollen. I could feel hay fever allergies coming on while outside and tried beathing through my mouth to avoid sucking pollen into my nose. And voila, my uvula freaked out instead of my sinuses. Next time I just won't breathe so nothing will swell up. Hopefully the benadryl will kick in soon. Thanks to Google I found a support group.

Approx. 15 years ago I woke up and noticed I absolutely couldn't breathe. Yes thats right I had a case of (SUS) Swollen Uvula Syndrome! I'm coining the term today. (6/30/05) Now when I awoke that morning my Uvula was not 2X the size, or 3X or 4X it had to be about 6X its normal size. It was completely blocking my breatheway. I had to build up air in the pit of my stomach and try to cough it forward into my mouth just to get a breath in. After two hours or so I started to get weak because I wasn't getting enough oxygen. I was rushed to the Emergency room in Downtown Minneapolis and had a thoat specialist look at my Uvula.

- His first instinct was to ask me if I was allergic to bees and if it was possible I could have swallowed one? NO, wrong time of year.

-After a few more theories came and went I was still in agony.

I proceeded to lay on the doctors table to the waist and let my head dangle upside down so the uvula could hang into my mouth.

The doctor said "I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. Let me call another doctor, also a specialist."

The next doctor laughed in amazement at the size of my Uvula. They tried giving me a shot for allergies even though I did not suffer from allergies.
When that didn't work they wanted to STICK ANOTHER NEEDLE DIRECTLY INTO MY UVULA! AHHHHH!

I wouldn't let them do that, so I waited around the office sipping water trying to keep it wet.

It was terrible experience. All these years I've felt like I was the only one with this problem. It still occurs once a year or so.

The one good thing~~~~ it's never gotten anywhere near as big as that first time. Now it gets 2-3 times normal size, and only really stays like that about 4-8 hours.....it's basically a nuisance now.

Keep calm if it happens to you, try to cough it up and hold it to the side if it gets real bad and wait it out, keep it wet, and breathe.

SUS Survivors Unite!

I'll be holding the 1st annual SUS convention here in MN in the fall, E-mail for directions, dates and times.

Lmao...I'm glad that I'm not the only one who experienced this. I've been looking everywhere for "swollen tonsils" only to find that it was the Uvula all along. But I have a question: How did it get to swell up? Ive been reading the comments and it's either due to dehydration or drinking. I drink but not this week. I originally was smoking but I smoked before and it never happened to me. I has a sore throat and some coughing then i ate some seafood and today woke up with somehting in my throat i thought was so phlem...then i realized it was my Uvula and it looked like a reddish pink jelly bean...dam we should really do those shirts...how bout a picture of someones mouth open with a swollen Uvula and under it, it says : "How's It Hanging?" lolz get back to me on that.

I am so relieved to know that so many others belong to the swollen uvual club too. It is such a scary thing. The first time it happened to me I woke my husband and told him I thought I was dying because I could not swollow. Instead he called the hospital and they told him that this is normal sometimes and gave me some home remedies to try. They did work, but in one month I have had this happen to me 4 times. Twice I had been drinking the night before. I have used a nasal decongestant and that sometimes helps and gargling salt water helps too. If anyone else has any good tips on how to treat or prevent this feel free to email me at insanebabe64507@aol.com would love to hear from you. Take care.

Wow..I can't believe this Uvuala problem really happened to so many people.Mine started with a sore throat so I didn't think anything of it til I woke up the next morning with a super dry tongue and could barely talk(Needed water badly).I got so scared.My whole throat was red like blood shot red,and my Uvuala was long and laying on the back of my tongue like a dead worm.It was Nasty.I called triage but the Nurse had me go in the next day since I had no fever and told me to rinse with salt water in the mean time which I don't think helped much because my throat was raw.It just hurt alot.When I finally got to see the doctor it was obviously nothing for her.She prescribed me 500mg penicillin to take 1 every 8 hours and tylenol regular strength and continue rinsing with salt water .That's It!
It's was still unbareable sleeping after that til
the antibiotic kicked in but now ater the third day taking medicine I feel GREAT!Good Luck Guys!

Man, this thing IS a mystery!!! What the hell causes it??!! Thank God for Google, I've just sat here for about an hour lmao and trying every remedy I come across to fix this. All the theories are interesting - check out all the stuff I've learned as I try to solve this dilemma:

* I was neither smoking nor drinking last night or the night before (I know ... what's wrong with me??!!). Could this be a contributing factor? Should I have been drinking?

* I am a snorer though, and I recently moved my bed closer to the window, but it's not open because it's winter here ... does that mean the air is more moist?? We have a heater but not in the room and it's heat hardly reaches it enough to dry out the air in there, could it still be a factor?

* I am allergic to pollens, fur, dust and some grasses. Two days ago I bought a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner with a HEPA filter as part of my personal War Against Dust ... and wage a war I did! Most of my weekend was spent zapping the dust away with my new toy, no nook or cranny was safe. Could this be a contributing factor to my oversized undulating uvula?

* I, like you before me, woke with a dryness in my throat and mouth rarely experienced by human standards and rushed to Google.

* I have come to the conclusion that doctors don't know jack-shit about this "illness" but I have to see one to get a Medical Certificate for my day off work ... (see below)

* I'm a teacher, I've just had two weeks holiday, today is 'staff development day', it's the Monday before school goes back on Tuesday with hordes of screeching children, not knowing what it was I called in sick, everyone knows I HATE staff development days, and everyone knows it's MY BIRTHDAY!! Who is going to believe my Uvula story???? Everyone will think it is just a story to get a day off for my birthday... oh well, I'm kinda thankful for my swollen Uvula, IMO, its timing couldn't have been better! :) Enjoy!

I googled the swollen uvula after first thinking uvicle which came up empty handed. I had surgery yesterday and woke up in some pain so they gave me a pill to swallow. I started freaking out that I was choking on the pill so I was trying to get it to come out and I started choking and I vomited blood all over my surgery bed 4 times. The hack anethesiologist says its normal and to call my doc if it's not better in 2 days but I think I will call this afternoon cause I'm pissed because apparently they shoved the tube down my throat twice because someone else who had just come out of surgery had to be rushed back in so I had to be partially rewoke. Funny thing is I was dehydrated for a few days before this as well. Only thing is, I can see a huge rip mark on my uvula so I know that is part of the problem. Oh well I guess I should feel like a special member of the club anyways. LOL

Just woke up @ 5:30 am, I'm out of town visiting family slept on a crazy good pillow on my back...very rare. Just sneezed, bless me, got a swollen uvula so glad I know what the scientific term for the hangie ball is or how else could I have searched The Gogg & found all you crazy nuts just like me & now I feel much better indeed....Except for the damn little penie in the back of my mouth....he still hurts...BTW...does drinking warm help it like tea,coffee,etc....salt water didn't help AT ALL

Me too! What's cool is that this thread is so long that my uvula has decreased in size as I've read it. This page is a cure.

I have had the sensation on the roof of my mouth for 5 weeks. I'm not sure if its the uvula or not. It started at the start of a Viral Infection and is still there. Anyone any ideas?

I woke up two days ago at about 4 am with a somewhat frightening choking sensation. My wife drove me to the ER. On the way the sensation subsided a little. The doctor poked around, told me I had the symptoms of strep and gave me antibiotics and an 80% accurate strep test. Whatever that means... Anyway, it turned out the test came back negative, so I asked if I could stop taking the antibiotics and they said yes. Then while stopped at a traffic light I took a gander at my throat and saw the thing, which was slightly enlarged and red. Plus my throat feels a little sore and I'm a little lethargic (can antibiotics cause lethargy?). So I figured if it wasn't strep what was (is) it? I did swim in a lake three days ago that I later found out had fecal coliform problems. The nurses didn't seem to take this too seriously however. And I drank a lot of alcohol four days ago and swam in another lake. And I snore a lot and sleep on my back. And the sun was out big time at the lakes- dehydration? I think I'll try gargling with salt water. Anybody have this experience, know what the problem/cure is?

please help i freakin woke up after being hevily drunk from alocohol and lied to ma dad so i kant go to the doctor so how do i make it go away helppp this stupid uvula is all messen wit ma toung

Flew in from Europe to Tacoma on Sunday. Monday had a nasty sore throat. Tuesday morning had the swollen uvula this as described above. Went to doctor. Negative strep test. Went back to doctor on Thursday, uvula still swollen and throat nasty sore. They gave me a weeks worth of Prednisone to get the swelling down and Amoxiillin 500 mg to kill the bacteria, if it is being caused by a bacteria. If it is viral, then it is up to my autoimmune system to kill it. Friday morning, swelling is going down and finally feel human again. Great thread. Certainly made me feel like I was going to live.

!!!
swollen uvula.
:(
this page is a godsend. I thought i had a load of phlegm in the back of my throat. But its the damn uvula.
This page saved a trip to the docs.
god bless google.

Yaaaay! This website saved me :D But I am still going to the doctors - I've had a sore throat for weeks and now this!

It's a pleasure to be in the club though. I nearly choked this morning as I woke up. It felt like a much piece of dirty flem but when hocking repeatedly couldn't get it up, i looked in the mirror and burst into tears!

Haha, anyway. I hope it doesn't last long! :s

Hurrah! About 12 hours later it was down to about 2x normal size and then this morning it's pretty much gone :D So to everyone else, DON'T PANIC!

The blog here has been a riot. Like the other members here, I woke up last night with an unusually dry throat and it felt like my skin in my throat had stretched and that if I was not careful I would swallow my throat?

I have been laughing for a half hour, which did not help poor enlongated throat weeny, while reading this site. It was hilarious to see that members posting comments had previously been to the same sites as me trying to figure out what was wrong with their uvula.

I have had way too much fun reading your comments. Cheers to Google nerds around the world!

this absolutly sucks...mines been swoll now for like 4 days and all these posts is kind of reassuring, except mine shows no sign of getting better...it makes me wanna keep swallowing...theres no way i can not swallow, especially when the little bastard is chilling on the back of my tongue...ugh...this does have to be one of the funniest most paranoid threads on the web though, so at least if i choke i'l be highly entertained recently...i must of read every one looking for people whos have been swoll for days on end...this absolutly sucks

OK Looking at devilwarships post i know im not alone. haha actually looking at all thousands of you all i feel better. i went out saturday night and drank my ass off. i dont believe i ever drank so much in my life but not only did i get wasted but i puked about 20 times. today is wednesday and that damn thing is still resting on my tongue at some points making me sound like kermit.. thank god u guyz are here other wise my paranoid ass would be at the emergency room.

I feel your pain. This past friday night i went out and had the worst hangover ever. I woke up and noticed my uvala was about the size of my pinky(my hands aren't small either). I admit, i wish i did the google search thing. I went to Patient First, they had no idea what it was. So then they admitted me to the emergency room. They thought it was some type of infection. They gave me a shot in my @ss of benadryl and something else. I never did mention i was hungover and how much i drank last night. Make a longer story short, its been 4 days and its looking better but not really. I think im going to do the shi9 load of water and gatorade thing, I've been reading on. Feel free to email me if you got any better ideas to help the swelling and the length of the uvula.

google searches, BIG "little" grapes, looking in the mirror. It's almost like the world has a programmed response to swallen uvula. Scary as all hell when it happens for the first time. Took to focus of my sore neck from all the jumping around I did at a gig the night before though. Thanks Swallen Uvula!!!

LOL...Thank the Intranet!

I also woke up this morning with a very dry mouth, and then I felt something stuck in my throat. I looked in the mirror and saw my uvula was swollen and very long. I turned on all the lights and woke up my ex bf and was nervous that the thing hanging in my throat was long! He said your uvula, you need to go to the universities nurse. I know I couldn’t call in sick because I had the flu last week, so hear I am and thank to you I feel so much better. I'm also thinking twice about eating taco bell, naw I think it was the dry or open mouth at night...The things that happen!

Just reading up on some of this lately, was interesting.

i have had this problem for several years and have found the following to work for me:
1) don't panic-it will go away with time.
2) gargle with hot water-not cold. a doctor told me that cold makes the problem worse. hot tea works the best for me.
3) benedryl works best for me. it takes while, so be patient.
4) causes for me are heavy drinking the night before, monosodium gutamate (msg), a common additive found in food-especially chinese, and snoring because of sleeping on my back.

This has happened a couple of times to me after having a cough and lots of phlegm going down my throat. I have a bad habit of sucking the phlegm from my throat into my mouth and spitting it out. It helps when I can't cough it up but I think the sucking has stretched my uvula and I have to stop doing it for a couple of days and give it time to go back to it's normal shape. But I am trying your "drink lots of water" idea and put down my soda can. Will pop a Benadryl when I get home also - hope it helps - I hate this.

Well, I feel relieved. I've had a swollen uvula for a couple days now, and have just sat down to check the web... like others, I googled, and here we are. Thanks for the info and what not.

Man...google rocks! I thought about goin to the emergency room when I woke up with a ridiculously swollem uvula (I couldn't breathe.) Now...i just saved a bunch of money on my medical bill. Thank you Google! BTW my nose was clogged last night and I had to breathe through my mouth...I believe thats what caused it. I also didn't sleep much.

Oh man am I glad I found this place! I've been to the doctor twice over the past week - first time he told me I have a viral flu. Then a few days later my throat seemed to close over - I've got tonsillitis. When I woke up this morning with a swollen uvula I thought I was going to die - one tonsil is covering one part of my throat and now my little dangle ball is doing its best to block the other half!! Breathing, eating & swallowing are all hard right now. I'm having a bit of trouble taking my antibiotics, but I'm slowing getting through a bottle of water. I hope this doesn't last long...

MAN O' DAYS! My Uvula was swollen bigtime when I woke up this morning...so much for my plans of sleeping in! How irritating- a swollen uvula on Thanksgiving! I'm desperately trying to drown it back into submission, I've got a dinner to go to in a couple hours, and I intend to enjoy it. I hoped Googling might lead me to a quick remedy...but looks like I'll be waiting it out, though I did take an antihistamine. Also took a hot shower. Don't think that helped, but it was kinda fun.

Guess thats what I get for being out drinking last night! Grr... !

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the greatest site on all of the world wide internets.

I actually don't have a swollen uvula. I'm perpetually sleepy because I keep choking on actual mucous at night. But, it sure is nice to know what to do if the ol' throat squid ever acts up!

Rock on!

Im not sure if I have a swollen uvula or what but I was pretty drunk last night, smokesd way too much and today my throat felt swollen mostly on left side and left side of my tongue and under it is really sore too! I also was singing alot of kereoke, lol dont know if this is related???I was thinking of going to my doctor tomorrow but now I may just try to give it time to get better....

If anyone may know what this is email me please..

jamboreeinateepee@hotmail.com

Ok...so my uvula is not swollen, but it's purple at the tip. Only one other person has had this and no one seemed to answer them. I'm worried it will fall off or something. Or maybe it's something really bad. PLEASE someone tell me they've had this and it's gone away!!

Ok...so my uvula is not swollen, but it's purple at the tip. Only one other person has had this and no one seemed to answer them. I'm worried it will fall off or something. Or maybe it's something really bad. PLEASE someone tell me they've had this and it's gone away!!

I've had it swollen a few times before, but never as giant as it was this morning. I've had a sore throat for the past couple of days (I don't know why) and it could be due to irritation of me coughing and trying to get crap out of my throat. But, just like the rest of humanity, the first thing I did was google it. I'm off to go take anti-histimines, ibuprofen and water. Thanks.

on september 17 i ahd my 1st swollen uvula and since im like hypo i wnet crzy 4 sure dat was the day i was gone but they hit me up wit 3 shots straight with allergic steroids stood overnight in icu and told me it was a spice but i drank like an animal the day before.and 2 days ago i woke again but very small and did none of the above but felt dry.??? what gives is dehydration the main thing cuz its winter.

p.s u guys r the best

i woke up this morning all swollen and trying to swallow the hugemongous gob of phlegm when i realized something freaky was going on. i checked it out in the mirror and almost gagged (well, i did just wake up and holy cow morning breath!!) and that's when i noticed that the hangy thingy back there was a bit abnormal. so here i am, feeling much better now then i did when i started. these threads really helped me out and made me feel a little less mutated. just a little though. i'm hoping its just the dehydration thing. i'm going to load up on the water and try not to swallow the thing. thank you to everyone for taking the time!

"Thrush"

Like infants sometimes get
virus must go the route like waiting for a cold to go away.
gargle gargle gargle with warm salt water and if it feels like it's coming back, gargle some more.

I know it's horrible and I was shocked with it happened to me. Swollen (what I always called my flingy dingy) a bit of white or yellow stuff in the mouth. I could have kissed my doctor when she said it was thrush. I didn't know adults could get it. Salt water not only eases the pain big time but reduces the swelling as well. I pray I never go through that again. But I keep little packets of salt in my bathroom to start easing pain if it should happen again. Good luck folks.

Went to bed Friday night with chills and body aches. woke up the next day and thought I was choking on what felt like a huge piece of phlegm.Jumped in the shower to get ready for work and tried to clear my problem.I tried and tried so hard.It felt so close to clearing as I gagged and coughed,but to no prevail.I thought I would choke to death. Anyway I looked in the my mouth and what I saw looked like an infected purple monster on my tounge.I freaked a bit,woke my wife and left for work. Stopped at a CVS for some info and found out the name of the puple monster. Bought some advil and went to work. eveytime I bent over to pick up a tool the monster would try to climb out of my mouth.Thanks everyone,this is a cool site,I will get to the doctor on Monday. Chow

Swollen uvula can also be caused by SLEEP APNEA- if you are snoring a lot etc., check with your doctor about it. I was hospitalized 24 hours with a swollen uvula. Werent' sure if I'd stop breathing all together or not. I have sleep apnea really bad and am now on a CPAP machine. Don't take swollen Uvula's for granted. The human body created by GOD is a wonderful thing, it is trying to tell you to pay attention to it.

Ok i Have woken up with a swollen lil grapey thingy for at least the past 3 days at least, It goes down for a day then reappears USUALLY the same size as it was swollen before, well today it decided it wants to take me out so it swelled to about 4x its normal size, it is about the size of my pinky (I am 6'5" with large hands too, so that is one big @$$ pinky in my throat) I do think i have a cold though, parents don't wanna turn on the heat while I am sleeping, so I don't know whether it is a cold or dehydration.
Can anyone give me any kind of advice on what to do? =(

LOL! God bless the internet - is there anything you can't learn about here?!?

I'm sure there is nothing too enlightening that I have to say that hasn't been said at least once, but here's my story.

I woke up today with a swollen uvula. (Like another person previously posted, I too thought it was an epiglottis, but no, it's the uvula. So now I have Chevy Chase's line from SNL (about letting Babs' uvula go to the dogs)) spinning in my head.

I'm 99% sure my problem was caused by snoring. Maybe the room was drier than usual, maybe it was something I ate that caused me to snore more but from the way I woke up (dry mouth in particular) I could just tell I'd been power sawing a forest's worth last night.

So now I have a swollen uvula. I'm not sure how other people's feels when it swells but this feels awful. A weird trick I can do is kind of exhale and flick it forward so it's resting on the back of my tongue. Then I arc the tip of my tongue back so I'm actually able to touch the tip of my tongue against my uvula (which is sitting on my tongue). Kind of feels like a piece of liver sitting back there. Blah! :-) Stupid mouth tricks!

It's not the first time I've had this problem, though, so I'm not too freaked. I'm sure it could be worse depending on the amount of swelling but it wouldn't even enter my head to see a doctor about it, let alone go to a hospital, at least not for the first 24-48 hours. Obviously if I was having trouble breathing or real trouble swallowing I would think very differently. Anyway, like I said I've had this before, particularly when I had an ulcer. I think then it was partially the result of irritation by acid reflux.

Long story short, for most people it will go away quite easily on its own. I don't know for sure, but I suspect a lot of things that people take for it aren't really curing it. Kind of like drinking, oh, chocolate milk for a cold. Sure enough, after about a week the cold goes away.

Speaking of drinking, I wonder what about drinking seems to create the problem. Is it that it dehydrates a person, or is it because afterward they have a heavier sleep and are more prone to snoring, and thus irritating their uvula?

Just a few thoughts, worth slightly more than what you paid for them. :-)

holy crap this sucks, got the swollen uvula and good damn I started to gag and dry heave.....good I wouldnt wish this on my worst enemies. Any ways took everyones advice and drank allot of water and took some IBU. One thing I can add to this remedy is eat and eat allot. It seems to tame the swollen beast. Everytime I go out drinking now I will remember not to sleep with my mouth open on my back.

Hah! This is the second time I've had an inflamed uvula. The first this happened to me a few months back, I freaked out because it was preventing me from sleeping -- as i would fall asleep, my uvula would block the air on the exhale. I got up, showered, and played some video games until the urgent care clinic opened. The doctor didn't see a swollen uvula, but hit me up with some methylprednisolone, benadryl, and flonase, and within 12 hours I was sleeping like a baby. After $2500 in allergy screenings and visits to an ENT specialist, I found out that I'm mildly allergic to dust mites.

Recently, the weather has gotten really cold and dry, and I started getting daily noesbleeds. Turns out that was from the Affrin I've been snorting, combined with the dry weather. This morning at about 2:30am I woke up with yet another swollen uvula. This time I didn't panic, and tried to doze as much as possible. Eventually I hit the university's clinic (since my insurance changed when I became a grad student). The doctor was great, agreed that I had a swollen uvula and redness in my throat, and sent me home with more prednisolone, rhinocort aqua, and "mary's magic mouthwash", a home-brewed (by the local pharmacist) concoction with antihistamines, antifungals, antibiotics, antiseptics, and painkillers. I'll admit... 12 hours later and I'm still a little nervous about my uvie. but i'm gonna give sleep a shot...

oh, and the remedies here -- ibuprofen, salt water gargle, and hot showers -- all seemed to help, but not solve, my problem. Gatorade and water have made me feel better in general; i'm sure that part of this is a progressive dehydration that was occurring in the dry air, that just culminated with this.

My symptoms seem much more severe. Very swolen uvula, major speaking disability caused by severe pain, blisters covering the uvula completely. been to doctor, been to hospital, nothing is working. HELP!!! Anyone has surgery on theirs?

It’s great to see there is a world of swollen uvula suffers out there, I ALWAYS get a swollen uvula after a night of drinking and an occasional smoke or two, I’m a drunk smoker... Anyways, it usually takes about three days fro mine to go away as I also snore a TON, which doesn’t help the cause. Right now I’m milking a bad one, three days deep with no sign of relief anytime soon, but I also had WAY too much to drink…

Also, I noticed I suffer a lot more in the dry Minnesota winters, my guess dehydration thing. It doesn’t help I work a desk job with is 8-5 drinking pop.

Well, I had a fever the past couple of days of around 102, and my throat was all swollen today, as was my poor li'l uvula. It's just really annoying because it's hard enough to swallow already, but I've noticed that if I drink a lot of something in one swallow I barely feel it, especially if the drink is hot/warm.

I have had this before, and it seems to be, as everyone's already stated, it is due to dehydration and snoring/sleeping with your mouth open. I have small nostrils (sounds kind of weird), so I have to breathe through my mouth all the time, and everyone tells me I snore, so there you have it! This has happened a few times before in the past couple of years, and it's gone down a lot in the first day, though I've never been drinking the night before it happened.

Thanks all! And I, too, got here from Google!

Yes, add me to the porky uvula club. Like the rest, scared the living Sh*t out of me.

My first reaction was to "dislodge" this by grabbing it with my fingers and pulling it. I want to stress the importance of NOT doing that.

After my google research, I'm a bit more relaxed. Thank god for this persons blog!

Thank God i'm not the only one. I don't have health insurance so i just figured i was gonna die.

wow feel releaved- I'm a drinker - I woke up 5:45am Christmas eve like what the f--k is wrong with me. First time I have Googled a symptom cause this was just Freaky, crossing my fingers for de-hydration and not avian bird flu. To you who have had it many times, dont know how you deal, after 20 min of this I am ready to shoot myself.

my daughters uvula was long and stuck to her tonsils for 6 months. nothing i tried worked. she cleared her throat all the time. anyway last tuesday she had uvula,tonsils,and adenoids taken out. is doing well so far. she is 6 and am hoping all will be better now.

thanks everyone....i thought i was having a allergic reaction to medication i took last night....i mean i cough up my uvula and swallow it, it's so long and swollen.....besides that I am recovering from leg surgery.....Happy fn Holidays!

Yeah my uvula gets swollen some morning too. Like right now... i really hate it, and plus its on Christmas morning! IT's so large i'm having problems speaking correctly. very embarassing.

I had major shoulder surgery 4 days ago and have had to sleep on our recliner 4 nights now, as the pressure is too great on the injury to sleep in bed. Due to the fact I cannot sleep on my side(which I always do)I snore VERY loud. The snoring has dried out the Uvula...........which makes me snore even worse. So..........I'm in a sling, on a recliner, with a huge Uvula that hurts like hell. I even get up 4-5 times a night to drink water and that doesn't help much. Hopefully, I'll be back to my bed.........sooner than later.

this morning I woke up after a night of drinking and smoking to find that I had a very dry mouth and what felt to be a huge glob of mucus in the back of my throat. I tried clearing my throat and drinking water and then looked in the mirror to see that my uvula swelled to 4 times its usual size. my first instinct was to freak but then I did like all other internet nerds do and looked it up...I drank some water and now its going back down...you gotta love posts like this!

Well, I thought I would start this year off with a bang. Last night was New Years and I had one to many. I past-out on my brothers couch, fully clothed, and woke up with what I thought was a new-years-whistle stuck in my throat. I went to the bathroom trying to get this giant flem-ball out of my throat by coughing and trying to spit it up. I looked in the mirror only to see my Uvula swollen up like a fire extinguisher. So I drove my sorry, hung-over, drunk ass home, telling myself that I was never going to drink again. Like everybody else here I jumped on the internet and I found this site. Now my problem is solved! All I have to do is wait. So tomorrow I will celebrate with a couple drinks.

To all the gagging people, thank you

This happens to me atleast once a year and I have found that dry conditions along with constant swollowing will stretch the uvala out... the more I tried to swallow the bigger this darn thing gets... one time I had to go to the doc and he drained it w/ a needle. I now know if I wait and drink cold fluids it should be fine but right now its freaking me out!

Thank God, I'm not gonna die!!! And I get a free, if not slightly disgusting, membership to a new club to boot.

Thanks for all the reassuring words, advice, and laughs (between the gags on my mammoth uvula). Pretty sure Brin and Page didn't see this as a use/benefit of Google. So now I'm gonna spend the rest of the day drinking (water), playing with that large disgusting mass in the back of my throat, and grossing as many folks as possible. This is too good to pass up. My wife particularly hates it when I open my mouth with the nast bugger laying on my tongue. The kids will probably love it. Can't wait till they get home from school. Happy Uvulaing

Just woke up and freaked like everyone else and straight to GOOGLE (thanks google) man this really scared the hell out of me, and I could barley talk to tell anyone what was going on.

I tell you what, that was not a good feeling. It took me 10 minutes to figure out what that little punching bag in the back there was even called...UVULA does sound like a sex organ,LOL

I woke up this a swollen "hang me down thing." I'm cheap so I just took benadryl and then googled swollen uvula and found this site. The culprit seems to be two beers at dinner, heater on(which we don't usually do),sleeping with mouth open, and snoring. Weird feeling but looks like I'm a card carrying member of the SWOLLEN UVULA CLUB!

Member of the Swollen Uvula Club from the UK

So after having a sore throat for a week and then trying to hack up the imaginary ball of phlygme for a couple of days I notice this morning that the little guy is sitting snuggly on the back of my tongue, which is really not very pleasent ! After thinking that I would have to have it removed or something I am some what releived to read these posts ! Google probably helps more people that the UK's national health service. Lets hope this annoying pink alien currently squatting on my tongue will piss off soon !

Happy New Year 2006 :)

I had this happen to me last night... I drank probably about a half a gallon of Orange Juice, gargled with listerine today. It went away until it started getting late... Now, it's my bedtime, and I have a golfball in the back of my throat. I, also, started freaking out until I found this site. Thank gawd for Google!

It happened to me this morning, thanks to google I now know what it is and am pretty sure it due to dehidration.

Just waiting for it to go back to normal - hopefully today.

Thanks to everyone here who shares a pretty gross problem and made me feel better about it.

regards,
Darka

WEll,

Its 9:30 a.m. And i have become a member of the club. I snore real bad and didn't have any water so, now i know what to do. AS in anything if you irritate it enough it wll get big (lol) later

hey got a update!! I drink two glasses of water took some benedryl and motrin, ate a bowl of chicken noodle soup. All within 45minutes of reading this and what do you know? its going down!!!

Thanks again for the info!!!

OK, so I wake up this morning with a giant uvula I immediately think I might be the one with the first case of the bird flu in the U.S., so I better not go to the doctor or they'll have me quarantined.
What to do? What to do? I feel like it's going to fall off or choke me to death and I can't go to the doctor!
I decide to call my doctor's office and speak to the nurse (contemplating whether or not they can trace my call should they believe I am a bird flu carrier) while googling "swollen uvula" at the same time.
Turns out I just need to gargle with some salt and drink some water.
Ahh...catastrophe averted.
We can now return to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress.

Wow! What a Godsend this site is! I woke up before usual this AM thinking I had a huge wad of phlegm in the back of my throat (same thing yesterday only very minor compared to today) only to look in the mirror and see my huge uvula hanging down in there! I though I was going to choke and tried to cough out whatever was in there. When blood came out I figured, this it it folks...cancer! I'm gonna croak for sure! still convinced there was something in there that had to come out I reached into the back of my throat with my fingers and grabbed onto my uvula and tugged...(I actually tried to pull it out...that didn't work (of course) but by now I was beginning to realize there was nothing in my throat that needed to come out. That scared me even more because now I was figuring....cancer...and no insurance...I wouldn't use the traditional alopathic way of treating it anyway...but I think my tonsills (really my uvula is what I was looking at) need to come out as it must be totally cancerized! How will I tell my wife? She'll flip out! OK...get hold of yourself...check out tonsillitis on Google I told myself!
Didn't take long to realize it was my uvula not my tonsills that were the culprit. Nothing seemed to fit under swollen tonsills. Then..I hit on this site! What relief!
Now that I look back on the past few days I can see what is probably causing these symptoms.
We are currently moving and I have been in the garage moving stuff around and the dust has been making me sneeze like crazy...combined with my stupidity of really overeating dairy products the past few days (which I am allergic to and shouldn't be eating at all!). So, what to do! DUH?
This must have been sneaking up on me cause my wife says I have been snoring louder than usual the past few nights.
Benadryl here I come!
Thank God for this site! It has saved my sanity and my life too!
Don't panic...you aren't going to die!

Well hello fellow dorks who turn to our computers first instead of our doctors when something goes wrong. I woke up this morning like the rest of you to find what resembled a baby's thumb in the back of my throat. I was going to cancel my drive from sacramento to l.a. to watch washington state pund ucla but now I'm still going thanks to this site. I'll now proceed to gargle warm salt water and drink lots of water all day. Later dudes!

Man, mine has been swollen to different degrees on and off for a month now. It has me so worried that I have quit smoking, drinking, coffee, and weed. I really hope it's not cancer or something... Gargling salt water helps in the short term but it still is there. HAS ANYONE HAD IT GO ON FOR WEEKS THAT IS STILL ALIVE? I feel fine otherwise... better than ever now that I have an unnerving sense of clarity without all of the toxins in my body... just a GD swollen UVULA!

Just to put a positive spin on things, I woke up with a swollen uvula at about 11am today. It is not 3:30pm and everything is back to normal. I took an ibuprofen, drank about three nalgenes of water, and took a hot shower.

Nobody is posting positive outcomes on here and I just thought I should.

This shit gets better very quickly.

Add me to the club this morning. Woke up with difficulty breathing through my mouth, very dry throat, and can't seem to clear it. I go to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and OMG there's a giant red grape hanging down, with little airflow.

First off I think, OMG this is it, I'm going to die. I wake my wife up to look at 4:30 in the morning - and she says "Google it" - really caring wife huh?

Well I feel better emotionally having found this site. Taken paracetamol and 3 glasses of water. Hopefully it will go away. SCary stuff at first, now bloody annoying.

Thanks guys.

well like the rest of you i woke up with a swollen uvula and since this is my first time with such a thing i immediately googled it to see what could have caused it and what i should do. glad i found this site because it really calmed me down. thanks!!

wow great to know im not alone, for one im not one to freak out about any sickness so i decided well before die let me google this and see what comes up, well it turns out alot of us have this problem!!! good luck and let's have a beer!!lmao

This morning I too woke up with a swollen uvula. The night before I took benydrl and ibuprofen for aches and went to bed a few hours later. I have an air purifier and it was blowing my way as I slept. After googling this thing, I came up with a few different reasons. Perhaps the purifier dried me out and the ibuprofen and bendydrl did the same. My course of action is to drink lots of water and gargle with warm salt water. Its now 9:24a and I will try and keep a log to let you know how it turned out. I had no alcohol the night before. Hmmm? Thanks for the post.

Holy cow! I'm the fifth person to report a swollen uvula today (Jan. 14, 2006). This blog post that started 21 months ago certainly has taken on a life of its own, huh?

I woke up this morning with a funny feeling in my mouth, first it was just dry ( which is normal as I celebrated my Bday last night with plenty of drinking ), but as I got up it felt more like somebody vacuumed my mouth and stucked a cotton-ball in it. I checked the mirror and discovered this mutation, scared the shit out of me, and I kept on gagging on it.I menaged to get back to bad, but wierd thoughts kept going through my head, like turning my self to the ER and become an amputee; or how to come to terms with my odd new limb, etc.etc. But than I thought I was being a big P***Y and decided to Google it first, before doing something drastic like sticking a pair of scissors in my mouth. I'm glad I found this site, I feel very relieved. Hope this uvula goes back to normal size anytime soon, it's been 5-6 hrs now!

Well, thought since, this is the definitive Uvula page. I thought it only proper that i should account my experience.

I was off work for a good chunk of last week. Been feeling very weak and dizzy - and having a really strange sensation in my head like something pressing down on my skull. Its been hard to concentrate or think straight. Im still not right. But anyway last night I thought id go out down the pub and sink a few (not had a drink for over a week) and this morning i had a sore throat.

Any how I looked into the mirror and my Uvula is dangling again and this time its resting on the back of my tongue to the extent that i can actually manipulate it with my tongue. At first I thought i'd got a big lump of phlegm and proceeded to hack the back of my throat. Unfortunately i think this must have made it worse. The strange thing is - i've shone the torch into my mouth and i can also see those tubes that come into the back of the mouth/throat ( what are they called) anyway i've never seen them before on closer inspection these appear quite red and have mini dangly bits over the opening of the holes.

So here's me wondering if im gonna have to miss work again on monday humph...

Nick ...

I didn't read the whole thread I must admit but it seems like everybody here has a temp problem. My uvula has been sitting at the back of my throat feeling like half swallowed spaghetti for 6 months. I first started to notice after ice cream or a cold drink but recently I feel it all of the time. It's more long than swollen... I think I am in the wrong place

I woke up with it for the first time this morning. I also drank last night and was slightly dehydrated as well, but hell, that’s every night. Why suddenly the swollen uvula now? My original thought was allergic reaction. I was in my (unfinished) basement last night for a longer period than I usually am setting up an old train set that I took out of deep storage. I was thinking that maybe it might be due to the insulation in the basement?

Has anyone else ever had this after working with or being around insulation for a couple hours? Thanks. Greg

I woke up at 4 am last night with the biggest sensation to hack up some flem. It was the toughest flem I've ever had and I could not get it up and I don't give up easy. I go to the bathroom look at my throat and realize I've been trying to rip the swollen uvula off the top of my throat. So whatever made it swollen in the first place, it's now worse from me trying to hack it up. I did fall asleep on my back and tend to snore in that position so maybe that did me in. Also my wife made her chicken enchiladas last night and added chili pepper to the receipe. What ever is causing this, it sucks. Hopefully it will go down soon. I'm tring the asprin, then benedrly and the warm saltwater tricks and we'll see what happens. I wish everyone could post pictures of their uvual so we could see who's is actually swollen the most. I don't feel sick at all yet so I think I'll hold off on the doctor for now. Good luck to all the members of Swollen Uvula Club. S.U.C.

So only 2 people had a the tip of their uvula purple? I have had strep and I looked and saw that the tip of my uvula was purple. I started to freak a bit. has anyone else had this?

I gotta say I'm actually kind of proud to know that others have gone through this uvula issue and have given all of us a home to discuss our simple dehydration problem. This is my 3rd time in the last.. heck 3 years. The 2nd time was the worst because I actually had a terrible case of strept throat that got worse. I also had a temp of 102, was seeing spots, I had the hot/cold flashes, dizzy, I seriously felt that if I didn't go to the hospital (which I did, and was charged 450+) that I was going to die. The doctor looked down my throat for TWO seconds, and said, "Oh yeah, you've got white all down your thoat" and was to take Penicillin. (Hottest chick doctor I'd ever seen, haha)

TODAY - I woke up (after drinking beer last night which a lot of people on this post have done as well) and knew immediately when I took that first swallow in the morning to check if my throat was sore anymore (I've had a bad sore throat for the past 3 days but is nearly gone now) and knew my uvula was swollen... not sure why, but it was. I knew not to freak out and I too did the nerdy google search and found this.

In conclusion, in the past 4 hours it has gotten much better and should be gone by tomorrow. I'm in a punk rock band and I have to be good by Saturday! Atleast reading these posts and going through this uvula thing before I know I'll be 100% when I'm on stage.

.. also, i think you'll really know when you need to see a doctor and be billed like crazy.

~Torrey

Well, If Mike Tyson needed a bigger punching bag, i have it in my mouth.

COLD WATER SEEMS TO BE WORKING! YAY

wow. i feel a little bit better now that i have found this site. google is a godsend. i am an extremly parnoid 23 year old male. i have had a sore throat for about 4 days now an it was getting to the point where i couldnt even swallow my own saliva. i dont have insurance anymore so i was ready to tough it out with advil. day/night nyquil. which is rare for me , i have always had insurance. an i am pretty much a hypocondraich. i was starting to get really insane . as of last night i took a double dose of nyquil thinkin i would actually get a full night sleep. instead i wake up 1 hour later to find out my uvula cloggin my throat. so i jumped up an that was it i went to the hospital. after about 4 seconds the doctor looked at my throat an gave me a scip for zithromax an some tylenol with codine. so i know now that i have strep throat an that my uvula should go back to normal. but i think the worst part about it being swollen is that when i try to swallow it gets pinched by the roof of my mouth an the top of my tounge an it is the most painful thing i have been through. well thanks for reading this.

Amazing, drinking alcohol and waking up with a dangling uvula! I am so glad I'm not alone. Very strange feeling however. I'll try the various suggested remedies before heading to the MD. I feel somewhat normal due to Google!

Very worried about mine, dont drink, or do drugs, but i woke up this morning, and my uvula was swollen, i didnt know what to do i was practically in tears, because it hurts too much to talk, i havent been talking, drinking hurts as well, and m not even going to try eating.

Someone please reassure me #;(

After a crazy night of drinking i wake up and try to hack up the worlds biggest phlem wad...only to realize its my uvula. You get no sympathy complaining about a swollen hangy ball, just laughed at. Not sure about how big the rest of yours were..but i could cough mine into my mouth and have it lay on the back of my tongue, which might be the wierdest feeling ever. But after drinking a ton of water all day it is back to normal. the whole experience added to a very random night of drinking, but i really hope this doens't happen again anytime soon.

Please help me out guys, it's been a whole day, and it's not better yet, i cant eat, cant talk, swallow drink (it hurts way too much) Going to see my GP soon, let's hope she can sort me out quick, if not then im going straight to the chemist to get some antibiotics

all sorted, antibiotics helped alot!

wow,
I've googled 'swollen uvula' to see if i'm the only person on earth who's taken action against this condition! Yesterday I had a 'Uvulectomy' performed as a result theres nothing left to swell!!!!
Anyone else 'uvuless' ???

Yes, my name is not humberto but i feel your pain..its funny that everyone gets this after a night of drinking heavily, i acutally passed out in some girls dorm room upstairs and then somehow found my way down here to pass out with my mouth wide open, woke up still drunk and freaked out, i think it was due to extreme fatigue, heavy drinking, smoking, sleeping with mouth open and snoring. Im trying the salt water and going to find some benadryl tomorrow...i'm worried because i need to drink alcohol...
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Perhaps I should have mentioned that the op was performed in the UK (for free) on the national health service. IF your being voilently sick and literally unable to breathe then have the bloody thing lazered off. I only mildly miss mine, although the burnt remains are still swollen... ouch!

Hey mine has been gone for three weeks and hasn't come back. The motrin, plenty of water and benedryl took care of it. I didn't even drink the night before. just snored my a!@ off! anyways hope this helps

double dose of Tylenol for sore throat - liquid stuff - and it quickly shrank and the pain went away..

this is unreal that so many people have so much incommon...i woke up this morning, after a night of us drinking, to my boyfriend complaining of a sore throat and had me look at it. i saw what most of you saw, a big ugly slug looking thing laying on his tongue. never in my life have i heard or seen such a thing. i didnt know what to think or do, and i really really did not want to spend the whole day at the er. so i called my grandma, she never heard of this happening either. but she told me to put heat on it and have him drink chicken broth, get some vitamin c and ibpofen; which i rushed to the store and got, hoping this wasnt strep throat. then i got curious and like others googled around trying to find out what the hell that thing was called and why would it swell. in that search not only did i find this site i found another one as well. it is amazing to me how common this is. the other site i went to had 800 messages posted on it from people with the same stories.....who knew??

For the second time in two years my uvual sweeled up. Not as large as the first time (nearly four times normal size). I went to the emergency room due to breathing difficulties. My doctor informed me that it is uvular hydrops and can be linked to enzyme deficiencies from sicknesses and dehydration. An allergic reaction occurs in your mouth and causes the crazy swelling. My cure was a bag of Benadryl and some steroids. Sucking on ice really helps too. If this happens try to eat ice, take benadryl if possible and keep your head forward, putting it back can cause gagging. All the above tips were very helpful, but these are what personally work for me.

This happens to me several times a year. I used to attribute it to too much drinking the night before (especially if I had my usual martini accompanied with too much wine during dinner and an after dinner drink). So, I naturally began to avoid this combibation as dealing with a uvula 3 times its normal size is both frightening and uncomfortable. It would generally wake me from sleep aroung 4:00 AM and be gone by 1:00 in the afternoon. It was never accompanied by any throat closure or breathing difficulty - but I would continually try to bring up phlegm or do anthing I could to clear the golf ball from my throat. Most recently, it has occurred with no alcohol consumption the night before at all - though not as severe still a real nuisance. It does not present with any other allergic reaction symptoms (hives, itching, etc) so while seeming to be allergy related I'm not so sure. It's comforting to see so may other suffers of this problem, but I am desperately seeking a solution. My doctor has recommended having it removed - but the procedure seems quite morbid. I would much rather determine the root cause and rid it from my life. Unfortunately, that solution has yet to be found, but again, it's comforting to see I'm not the only one that suffers with this anomoly.Last, I find it interesting that all the medical articles that talk about removal only site examples of snoring or sleep apnea as a reason, (neither a problem in my case) and none speak to any other cause. It seems to me that with such a large thread of posts there would be something on the med boards referencing the problem and its cause without referencing the sleep disorders. Wishing all continued success in search of resolution

I too have had a swollen uvula twice; the first time about 2 years ago and the second last year. I also noticed it in the morning... not a good way to start the day:) The first time it returned to normal about mid way through the day and the second took a full day. Both times were in the summer and were after nights of heavy drinking. This whole time I have been attributing it to thinking I was allergic to particular types of wine but now I am wondering if it's merely from dehydration of the wine. Anyone who is currently having this happento them for the first time and are freaking out, I am not a doctor but would probably not worry to much, try not to swallow, and drink lots of water. I'm just glad that I might be able to drink wine now, SWEET!

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I woke up with a huge hangover and even BIGGER uvula!! I asked my wife to look at it and she thought I was trying to get some nookie... she said "you uvula is swollen every morning, go back to bed" so now I'm sitting up and I'm drinking water and that is helping a BUNCH!!

Get well you sick freaks!!

PS. What's with the mortgage web sites?? Like ANYONE with a swollen uvula, thinking their about to die, is going to scroll past your link and say, hey maybe NOW would be a good time to refinance!!

this if F%$&^$G hillarious!!!
i myself am too a victim of the uvula syndrome.
i woke up, panic, i run to the bathroom, take a look at the mirror and voila! the famous punching bag/squid/thumb size uvula. panic X2. the funniest thing about all this that it allways end up googled... i myself am not an english speaker so i first googled "mouth anatomy" (HeHeHe...) and after i understood uvula is what i am looking for, i googled "swallen uvula".
anyways, this is definately my first time, it woke me up, and actually that happened an hour ago, (which means i'm at the peak of it as you read along...).
the thing is, i was sick the past 2-3 days. i had a soar throat, fever and goey stuff (the ordinary common flu). the intresting part is that i drank 1 litre of ordinary tea a couple of hours before i went to sleep, but as i'm a student preparing for exams, i smoked quite a lot considering my health condition the past 2-3 days... so i hope the general conclusion - dehydration - will turn out to be true as my 1st exam is tomorrow and it'll be quite annoying doing it with a Damn willie-dog stuck between my throat and my mouth. i really hope it'll dissappear at the end of the day as everyone predicts...
besides that, keep the optimism! after reading quite a lot of posts, i LMFAO!!!
take care y'all.

I'm so bloody tired but my swollen uvula is keeping me awake. I'm tempted to wake my wife and have her cut it off with some scissors. Has anyone else recently introduced a cat into their household? I think mine is allergy related.

Have a nice day

Seems like everyone managed to find this webpage using google. I just woke up this morning with my uvula being the size of my thumb, and felt almost impossible to swallow. My girlfriend beside me started to panic and told me to get to the doc's. I was too cool for that... so I looked it up on the net first :o)

So I assume it's pretty common and not too much of a big deal... just feels like a REALLY BAD sore throat basically. Passing the news onto my girlfriend now so she doesn't go all dramatic on me again... Thanks all!

After seeing the marble sized dangle at the back of my throat for the second time in two years, I wondered why I have this? Realizing that it is probably caused from a night of dehydration and open mouth breathing during sleep(Currently fighting the cold of the century!)
It did go away after 6-10 hours, and a gallon or so of O.J.

I went out drinking last night and woke up at 5 this morning with the dreaded swollen uvula.
This only happened to me once before, many years ago when I was in college and it was because I had a severe case of tonselitis. But this time, I have no other symptoms (just a slight hangover) and a big, fat swollen, pain-in-the-ass sore uvula.
It is 5 pm here in NYC and the damn thing is only very slightly better.
I am a serious mouth breather (bad sinuses), and like a lot of people in NYC, live in a tiny room with old steam heat. (The worst kind for mucous membranes).
Please don't let me choke to death on my own uvula.
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What a wonderfully reassuring web site! Thanks to whoever is hosting it.

I just woke up with a sore throat that felt different from previous ones. I looked in my mouth and there was that swollen uvula! I started to panic--but before calling my doctor at 5:45 am, like everyone else I Googled and found this site.

Conditions: house with forced air heat, forgot to turn on the humidifier. And I have bad sinuses and snore. Apparently these are all the right ingredients. After reading the above posts, I've gargled with salt water, taken Tyleno, Benadryl, Apis (homeopathic), Rescue Remedy (Bach), and am sucking on a Fisherman's Friend throat losenge. That ought to do it. (How crazy is it that I happen to have all of this stuff in my medicine cabinet?)

I'm so reassured by the posts here, I'm thinking about getting a second mortgage! LOL!

I would like to add my thanks to all those who posted and especially to Michelle for hosting this ad-hoc support group on her blog! I woke up at 3 AM this morning with a uvula the size of the Liberty Bell. Never having experienced this before, I completely panicked - choked, spit up, and thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. I went to WebMD and did not find any useful information. Then a web search pulled up this page. I can't tell you how relieved I was as I read all the accounts of people who shared my ailment, and that in most cases it seemed to respond well to simple treatment. I began drinking water, gargled once or twice with mouthwash, and took Benadryl. Now, 7 hours later, the swelling has gone down to the point where it merely feels like a run of the mill sore throat. More importantly, I was able to get a little sleep once I stopped being afraid of choking in my sleep.

For those keeping track of causes: I am a mouth breather and a snorer. I may have been slightly dehydrated but certainly not any more than I have been on many occasions when this has not occurred. I had consumed one beer and a little Pepsi as well as a calzone with ham, pineapple, and bacon.

Right now my best guess is that I had an allergic reaction to something - possibly the beer, as I have suspected I may be allergic to beer (but not other forms of alcohol). But it is also possible I may have an infection since my housemate and other friends have been sick.

Again, let me express my sincere and heartfelt thanks to all for your advice and sharing your stories. You have made a real difference in my life today.

I'm glad our swollen uvulas have brought us together. I took a picture of mine and posted it on my blog! :)

Hi all, I'm in India and for the firsat time ever, have a swollen uvula. This site has been incredibly helpful in providing some information, but I still feel rather afraid and worried.

I can't contact VHI Nurseline in Ireland (where I'm from) from here for some reason. So was hoping for some advice? I seem to have gotten this after a combination of alcohol and fags and has been present all day yesterday. Is there something I should be doing to help alleviate this? Is Indian food ok to eat?

I've been in India for about a week now and never seemed to have problems before :(

The first time this ever happened to me was after I got third degree burns in a sauna, and the next day went to the hospital in the city and they gave me penicillin, and a few hours later my uvula was sticking between my teeth... I hobbled to the hospital then at 3AM with my legs covered with burns, and they put me on adrenaline immediately and two days later they released me from the hospital and told me not to take penicillin again... Now I have gotten it several times after that from colds, dehydration, drinking, or what-have-you... After the first big one, they told me it will recur often... And it has. Now I have a really bad one - had it for two days - finally got to sleep last night on my side with it leaving some space open for breathing, and in the AM it was even bigger... had it for 24 hours now, and it is worse, not better, than before - going off to the steamy shower for an hour or so, and planning to drink a few gallons of gatorade today - already did ice cream and frozen snapple... Not helping a lot. AARGH!

I should have listened to the good and common sense advice on this site…

I was a `first time sweller', and though it wasn't painful it made talking difficult - rather strangely, I sounded like the guy in the wheelchair off `Little Britain'.

So I allowed myself to be talked into going to the doctor. My own GP wasn't in, and I had to persuade the receptionist to let me jump the queue and see one of the other practice doctors.

I'd been on Amoxycillin for about 3 days for a chest infection, and when I told him he immediately diagnosed an allergic reaction. I pointed out that I'd had Amox before with no problems, and that I was now 3 days into the course, but to no avail.

He obviously wanted to punish me for queue jumping, and must have sensed my horror of injections, as he told me he would give me an antihistamine jab (Pyrotin?)

I gritted my teeth and looked away as the needle plunged home. He had by now worked up an appetite, and whipped out another syringe telling me he was now going to give me a steroid injection. He managed to prolong the agony of anticipation, as he couldn't break the top of the phial, and when he did he had to dilute it with water.

More grinding of teeth and thinking of England as he stabbed the other arm. He then asked me if I was driving (I was) and told me to go and wait in the reception area for 20 minutes before leaving.

I left the surgery, and had gone maybe 10 paces across the reception area when I felt literally as though my life was draining away. I collapsed onto a chair, clammy and sweating and feeling dizzy as hell. I bent forward, vaguely remembering that I was supposed to put my head between my knees, but the room was spinning.

I don't think I've ever felt as ill in my life.

I was half aware that Dr Death had emerged from his surgery and was telling me to go back in, but by now I couldn't stand up. I was half dragged, half carried back in, laid on his couch and had an oxygen mask slapped on.

There was then a strange phenomenon, as no sooner had I laid on the couch than there were more people in the room, discussing my blood pressure, which I heard them saying was 90 over 50 (it’s usually around 125 over 80). It was all very fuzzy, and the next thing I knew I was being wheeled out of the surgery, oxygen cylinder on my knee, and into the back of an ambulance.

It was only some time later that it clicked. I thought these guys virtually followed me into the surgery, but the ambulance had been called from the local hospital, which was a couple of miles away, so it must have taken a few minutes to arrive. I must therefore have lost consciousness shortly after going into the surgery, waking up when the crew had arrived.

Anyway, after another jab in the ambulance (adrenalin?) we arrived at the hospital. I was now beginning to feel fairly normal again, but had a relapse when I was told they needed to do an ECG. I asked why, and the nurse said they thought I may have suffered oxygen starvation and caused damage to my heart. (I pointed out that I was a lawyer, and that this was therefore a technical impossibility, but she paid no heed.)

Fortunately the ECG seemed to be OK, but they gave me a chest x-ray for good measure, before recommending I stay overnight for observation. By now, my already shaky faith in the medical profession was into minus numbers, and I was convinced I’d pick up MRSA if I stayed a minute longer. I therefore declined their kind invitation and hot-tailed it home, where the Macallan took a hammering.

So what happened? I didn’t get any explanation, though I did hear the words anaphylactic shock mentioned. I’ve Googled my fingers to the bone, but can’t seem to find any mention of this being a reaction to either antihistamines or steroids – indeed, it seems they are often used to counter AS.

Which leaves me wondering did Dr D accidentally use the wrong drug? I’ve certainly asked myself why he came out of the surgery to get me only a minute or so after he’d told me to go and sit down for 20 minutes before going home. Had he realised his mistake? Or am I just being paranoid? I guess I’ll never know. If I ask what drugs he used he’s hardly going to tell me if he used the wrong one. In any event, after an experience like that I’m just glad to be able to tell the tale.

Oh, and as a footnote, I asked the hospital ENT surgeon whether I should carry on taking the Amox – no problem, he said, whatever had caused my uvula to mutate into a jellyfish it sure wasn't the penicillin!

Next time (if there is a next time) it’s a dose of Benadryl and a gallon of water, and NO DAMN DOCTORS!

well i smoke alot of pot and use swisher blunts. but i decided to use the backwoods, they killed by uvula and now im paying for it this morning i guess ill just use the help of mary jane to cure me

Finally, mine is gone. Took three days or so, had an allergic reaction the medication but went away quickly enough :)

Good morning all and THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. Woke up this morning and there it was :@ my first case of whatever you call it. Looked like my tougue gave birth. Panic was my first reaction then after a search here I am, and I am relived as hell. And of course I was told by a doctor to go to emergency room. well thanks to this site I still have my money. So Im sending $10 to all of you..JUST KIDDEN. The only rookie advice I can give is relax drink fluids, watch a movie and hope your new little friend goes away. Thanks again

well, Tuesday very early morning while sleeping I started to feel congestion in nasal area and a bit of swelling, so later in morning I did something I learned from Shirlie Maclain -- at first sign of cold, snort warm salt water. Takes a bit of practice, to get it through your nose and out your mouth. But if you do it at the first slight hint of a cold, it prevents nasal congestion and sore throat from ever appearing, and cuts the cold in half. It doesn't stop congestion of the head sinuses though. Well, this time, the salt-water snort didn't work perfectly -- Wednesday morning woke up with swollen uvula and a slight bit of congestion in nose. Did the salt water snort thing again, and the swollen uvula already seems to be going down somewhat. But I had never had that before, so I came to google wondering if I should be going to a doctor or emergency room, if the uvula might swell further and stop me breathing. When I got here to this site, I used a search to read every single post with the letters "doc" in it. This was great, because I got to see how maybe two dozen doctors responded to a swollen uvula. Whatever the internet's downsides, it has some great advantages.

What caused my swollen uvula? Not sure, but perhaps 4 things. On Saturday, about 48-72 hours before symptoms started to appear, I was at a party and drank and smoked. There was also a dog there, and am somewhat allergic to dogs. And in the last couple of days the heat has been weak or off in my house. And last night I didn't drink as much as usual because my throat hurt. This morning my mouth was quite dry and woke up to discover my uvula swollen for the first time.

My cure for now: plenty of snorting and gargling of warm/hot salt water; making sure to eat light, mostly fruits and vegetables and a bit of salad dressing or a few nuts, no dairy, which causes mucus; megavitamins with food.

I would guess that ice and cold fluids or sweet fluids are not a good idea for a throat infection -- the cold and the sweet, I would imagine provide too nice an environment for bacteria and invaders. Don't we get bodily fevers because bodily invaders can't tolerate the few extra degrees of heat and thus die off? And salt, not sweet, is inhospitable to bacteria. Bacteria probably loves sweets.

I googled swollen uvula and found this page too. Thank goodness, I thought I really had something bad wrong with me. This have never happened to me before and I think its because I had a Gastroscopy test done yesterday afternoon. They gave me oxygen which dried my nasal cavity out. Plus I could be dehydrated because I couldnt have anything to eat or drink from 10am till 6pm when I got home. Im going to push fluids and use some chloraseptic to see if that helps. It feels like its streched and like I'm swallowing it.

Hey Clitheroekid, I just wanted to let you know that I too was once given a corticosteroid injection, for a skin rash on my arms and hands that seemed to be contact dermatitis. They had me sit in the waiting room for 15-20 minutes, just to be sure I didn't have a reaction. So you'll know I also have little to no faith in doctors, but thought it might make you feel better that it's normal for them to do that. I'm sorry you had a bad reaction... I didn't. Also, my husband like you has a real problem with needles, and more than once has nearly fainted after being injected. That might have had a bit to do with it, too.
My uvula is swollen which is why I'm here... I felt this morning like I had a metal bar in the back of my throat, and that I had something back there. It's not too big, but bright red and really bothers me. If I drink ice cold water it temporarily helps, but not much else does. Hopefully I won't fall asleep on my back tonight. Oddly enough I'm chronically dehydrated, have been for years, and suddenly after I start drinking 8 glasses a day I get this. It's disgusting.

First time sweller here as well... woke up with a log in the back of my mouth.. drank way too much last night & woke up with dry mouth & this thing twice as big as normal.. drinking water now.. only slept 3 hours.. hope it goes down soon.

Hey everyone! i think i'm the newest member to the swollen uvula club, i'm starting the chapter in Vancouver, Canada. I woke up this morning and i thought i was going to choke, i run to the bathroom to find this huge thing pointing at me. My uvula was so swollen that it was resting on my tongue. I was so scared, i did think i was going to die. Then i thought i wait i don't even know the name for this thing. So uvula it is. It's so big though, so i'm trying to think what could have cost it? i do sleep next a big window and my apartment is on the 26th floor facing the ocean. This has never happen to me before. I'm 31 yrs old. I had chinese food last night so not sure if it has anything to do with the msg. Also i don't drink much, and didn't drink last night, i don't smoke much at all. I'm thinking it could be from dehydration i do feel that i need to drink more water. I'll wait and see what happens i guess, but i have to tell you it's so annoying, ggrrrrr!!!!! Thanks for all your comments they do help a lot to know i'm not alone. See ya!
Edgar

Hello everyone-...Swollen uvula.I recently had mine swollen so bad i had to tilt my head to breathe.Funk Doctor Spock said it was viral,But she started roughing me up with my smoking habits and pretty much stated toxic chemicals can induce this problem.This was my first time ever getting this it was practically down my throat.It felt like food i was swallowing but i couldn't.Evry time i had to gargle with salt and water or listerine i would gag due to this enlarged object....but i learned what that ball in the back of my throat is now.

Well, it has been fun reading all these responses. I've had this condition for 3 days and it seems to be improving. I noticed it the morning afer getting "drunk as a skunk" on martinis coupled with a Zyrtec for my alergies. Like most respondents I at first, assumed it was due dehydration, however after 3 days I think it has been a viral infection (the roof of my mouth and throat are sore as hell), perhaps aggirvated by dehydration from too much alcohol consumption (maybe the Zyrtec figured in there somehow also). I am combatting this ailment with Ibuprofen, drinking lots of non-alcholic fluids, gargling salt water and and spraying with chloroseptic. I do believe I am felling well enough now to try another martini.

Thanks for all the posts. Helped calm us all down.

So my 16 year old son rushes to my room this morning in a panic and I look at his throat and his uvula is hanging so low it's almost touching the bottom of his throat! I'm ready to rush him to the emergency room. I make sure he's not in any choking danger and take the time to google swollen uvula (after first goggling "thing that hangs in your mouth" and seeing it's called a uvula). I find this site and read all the posts and saved a $600. emergency room visit.
I had him drink water and gargle with hydrogen peroxide and it's already half the size in just an hour. Now were just keeping an eye on it.

My sons a heavy snorer and got home just a little late last night but after reading these posts about the alcohol I ask him - be honest were you drinking last night - BINGO! Busted! He admitted he had been drinking. So everything adds up.
Again thank you to everyone who shared here.

Okay, this is a continuation to my post from yesterday. I drank a couple of martinis last night, everything went fairly well except this morning I still had a swollen uvula (4 days now) and a sore throat from hell. I went to the doctor, he said my uvula appeared to have an ulcer on the tip and prescribed amoxicillin. I'll keep you all posted on my progress.

Woke up this morning with my 2nd swollen uvula. It sucks. I feel like i have a huge phleghm ball in my throat i just cant shake. I'm gargling with salt water and drinking lots of regular water, hopefully it'll be better by later. I'll stop by CVS to pick up some chloraseptic spray or something to make it go down. Glad to see this site is up. and still going strong almost 2 years later. Perhaps one day mankind will cure the terrible condition of swollen uvula.

6th day... uvula still swollen but maybe not as much and throat maybe not as sore. Hope the amoxicillin is doing it's job.

Oh man, I'm the newest member to the swollen uvula club, woke up one day to find that something feelign like phlegm was in m throat. I have just gotten over bronchitus and went to the doctors office, and the doctor noticed I had a swollen uvuala. she took a culture and thought that I had strep throat. The culture turned out to be negative for strep (whew!) so I'm sittin her ewonderin "what the hell?" googled swollen uvuala and here I am. Althoguh I dont drink or smoke, the air HAS been extreemly dry and three days ago (I've had this for three days) I remember it being very dry and me singing till my throat went sore. . . .(dont ask me why, I was in the "zone") . . .so yeah I'm relived, I need to keep this thing hydrated and happy :)

I am so glad I found this site. I woke up this morning and totally freaked out. I was gonna head to A&E. I have toncillitis again at the moment and obviously this is just part of the infection. ITs so annoying!!! Would love to hear from anyone who knows about these being connected to toncillitis and how best to make it shrink again.
Cheers
Sean
seanhallam@hotmail.com

Okay, it has been several days, I think it is still slightly swollen (maybe I am just overly seisitive now). I have one days amoxocillin left and I believe I shall be healed. I think in a couple of days I'll be ready for another martini fest. Hurray!

Ok, just happened to me too. Similar experience to so many people here. I don't even know what this website is, except it appears to be the international "Swollen Uvula Central" on the web.

Smoked a cigar (okay and just a little bit of another substance) and 4-5 beers last night, but really hardly buzzed, not hammered like so many here. Fell asleep on the couch watching tv, and when i woke up at 3 in the morning to climb into bed, had the same feeling, like a big loogie in the back of my throat that i couldn't dislodge. Finally looked in the mirror and freaked when I saw a giant uvula! I was afraid I would die of sleep apnea until I found all these stories. Calmed me right down. Still have the problem this morning tho.

very unpleasant. this sucks

Answer this... I did NOT smoke anything or drink any alcohol the night before I woke up like everyone else GAGGING on my huge uvula.... it has been 2 and 1/2 days and hurts so bad to swallow even water! I did go to the doctor and he said virus or allergic reaction... take Benedryl just in case. Very irritating and oh so SORE!

Ha. This is amazing. How much I can relate to the majority of these posts. I'm just starting nursing school and most of the time nursing students go through a phase where they think they've contracted every disease and symptom know to man. I paniced like probably most of you all and went to google to find out what the hell is wrong with me.

I only had 3 beers the night before with a buddy of mine and then crashed. I woke up to take a leak and felt like I had to cough up some mucos. I looked down my throat and saw that my uvula was touching my tounge. I thought.."oh great allergic reaction, strep, tonsilitits!?!".none the less I'm gonna let it settle down along with myself and see what happens. And have a lot of water before class.

This site made me laugh and feel a lot better. Just cause I reacted the same way as a lot of other people apparently. Hopefully I'll run into this kind of case while in a clinical setting. That would be most hilarious.

I had strep throat for almost 4 days before I finally decided to go see a doctor. The thing that broke me in the end was this damn elongated uvula. It is the most annoying thing I have ever experienced. It is at least twice as long and very sensitive. It is constantly touching my tounge and making me have a gag reflex. Every time I swallow I seem to swallow my uvula and stretch it even more. Apperently I should have gone to the doctor much sooner so I could have avoided this. The doctor said that it is infected by the strep bacteria and that I will have to take antibiotics and wait. Thanks to google I know that I am not alone in the strange world of the swollen uvula. I will post how long it takes for the antibiotics to work.

Count me in the swollen Uvula culb, happened to me this morning, and yes, I Googled! I called my ENT in a panic but he was in surgery, glad I found this site, made me feel much better!

Hey what an amzanigly weird post, but Michelle i totally loved your initial post. Are you still hooked up??

Mark

I'll take the lifetime membership as well. I don't drink, but I snore really bad (not overweight, just snore - who knows why...). So I fell asleep on my back last night, the environment in my house is a bit dusty due to remodelling, and here we go, swollen uvula. My biggest problem is not swallowing, which is just uncomfortable, but when the darn thing flips forward, lays on my tongue pointing out and makes me want to gag my guts up. Will see if coffee and cigarettes have any positive impact, then try the more traditional saltwater.

Good luck to those who will walk this (well beaten) path after me ... hope you get better soon.

This swollen uvula is a pain. Mines was swollen so bad yesterday morning, i didnt eat nor go out.
Like many of you, I was out drinking, smoking, and vomitting my a55 out the night before. This morning it has shrunk back to atleast half of its normal size.
Good to know this is more common than I thought!
Hopefully its not an STD........................

Following a mean throat infection yesterday, my throat has improved but the infection moved up to my uvula... yay!

It's not as swollen as some of you seem to have dealt with, but it's just annoying enough to feel like a bit of skin coming off the back of my mouth. Occasionally it'll start to hang downwards and feel like I'm eating it.

Did some research online -- wow, we are all SO alike -- and found the warm salty water gargling trick. So far nothing's really helped, but I suppose I haven't actually been awake more than a couple of hours. So I should be ok.

Thanks for the mass of people posting here, though.... very reassuring to read about so many people in the same situation!

Over the past 12 hours, my first swollen uvula has decreased in severity. I was drinking the night before, probably inhaling a lot of the 3 hour-long bonfire smoke, and to top it off, I ate some extra spicy potatoes before bed. After sleeping for an hour, I woke up, vomited, and went back to sleep, only to awake with the typical gag/phlegm/hard-to-swallow symptoms. I unconsciously tried to cough it up and found that doing so made the feeling worse; since then I've tried not to do much coughing up of throat fluids or mucus, and I think it's helped ease the swelling. Another strange thing about swallowing: I could feel the uvula touch the side of my throat when I'd tilt my head - swallowing in this position was painless.

Yet another Google discovery here. I came down with mononucleosis last week, and for a while just my tonsils were really swollen, but this morning the tonsils are a little better and the extra volume was transfered to the uvula! I haven't tried to eat yet (I've only been up for an hour; anyway the dining hall doesn't open till 10), but I'm hoping the swelling will go down some by then.

I'm inclined to suspect dehydration, aided by my sickness. This has never happened to me before, even though my dorm is really dry, but tonight I slept breathing through my mouth, and also I have a fever so I was sweating a lot. So I drank a couple bottles of water whilst reading the replies here. My case doesn't seem too terrible; I didn't have any difficulty drinking. But my uvula does reach my tongue, so it feels strange and annoying. I'm just hoping I'll be able to eat normally.

Good luck with your swollen uvulas, everyone! I wish you all well.

How about those tshirts?

Unlike many of you, I was extremely slow to figure out what was going on here. I've had this problem maybe 10 times over the last few years, and it always worried me, but I never figured out what it was. I always tried to cough something up that wasn't there and felt like I had something stuck in the back of my throat. Today was the first time that I actually looked inside my mouth in the mirror, and I almost crapped my pants when I saw how big my uvula was. Thanks for the info. and the assurance that I probably don't have throat cancer, which is definitely what I was starting to worry about.

update, update! Yesterday, the swelling went down throughout the day and by the night it was almost back to normal. But then when I woke up this morning it was swollen again! Only this time, it had gotten fatter rather than longer. It is a different sort of discomfort; I'm not really sure which is worse.

Anyway, best of luck to all. Stay hydrated!

Hey all, I just had my first elongated uvula this morning. Wierd feeling. Like I had something in my throat that I couldn't swallow down. I looked at it in the mirror and noticed that my uvula was super long. Anyways, I was drinking the night before and I had a bad hangover so it looks like dehydration is a factor.

HELP MEEEEE!!!!! I'm on an anitbiotic treatment (Erythromycin) for a strep-like infection in my tonsils. They are pretty rank looking. My uvula swelled up a day and a half ago. About a year ago it happened after a night of heavy drinking/smoking/etc. but went down in a day with some Benny and water and the like. No matter how much water I drink, gargels I do, etc, I can't get it to go down. About 1/3 of it is resting on my tongue. Think it is time to see a doctor? Anyone have luck with diff. treatments with other throat infections?

And I thought I was the only freak who has woken with a giant uvula. Though I am sorry that all of you have had to experience this, it is nice to know that I am not the only one. I read on some natural remedy sight to add a pinch of turmeric to the salt water gargle. I am going to try it, but gargling so far has not been a pleasant experience. It makes me gag, like most things right now. Well, may all your uvulas (and mine) shrink to a natural non-gagging size.
N

There is a medical name for it, Quincke's disease. Try googling that term.

I'm thinking at this point we need a motto or song, maybe along the lines of the "Uvula Blues". I too am a tad of a hypochondirac, so can relate to the flash of adrenaline when you first get the flashlight out and scope out the freeking huge thumb-shaped blob that has come to inhabit the back of your mouth! I'm off to the tap for some water and will test out the 'porfen-benadryl remedy momentarily. I returned to the US from Ghana yesterday so was thinking I picked up some unusual foreign disease, and now I'm thinking I'm just a whimp: go get some waterm sing the Uvula Blue and screw giving the overpaid doctors any unnecessary business.

The Uvula blues, and the chorus sounds like "couging up a wad of phlegm.... I call you bakc when I can say "-ahem".

Herman

wow. google brings people together dont it. i got retched uvula dangly thing but it appears to have an ulcer or sumthin on it. loks like i have two of the dam things and wen eva i try to go to bed the damn thing flops onto my tongue and my gag reflex kicks in. bin to c the docs coz its been there for days and i got pills now. hopefully the dam hting will stop looking like its tryin to split in 2 and will LEAVE ME ALONE for the rest of my days as i'm only 18. if it blinkin comes back i'm gonna have to take action. i keep swallowing it too. any one else get that? feels like there is food stuck in my throat!!!! argh. so glad it's not jus me who has a freaky deaky uvula thing!

Wow, this has to be *the* site for uvula sufferers on the internet. this is the second time it's happened to me; once about two yearas ago, but I couldn't find much on it then (maybe it was before this post). Still ahven;t found much, nothign better than this; just knowing all the dozens of commentors here had it and (presumably) didn't die helps. I'll go drink some more water. Peace, all.

It's amazing how many other sufferers like myself there are out there. Who would have ever guessed. Prior to having my tonsillectomy on 5/6, I never gave my uvula much thought. It served its purpose, and never gave me any trouble. And it was, like the rest of my body, ...petite. All that changed after the surgery, and now it is HUGE and driving me crazy. I even choke on water, and am afraid to try much else. I expected pain, which I can deal with, but not this. And my doctor failed to tell me this could happen until I complained about it afterward. What I am worried about is that it doesn't seem to be getting any better, and I'm very hungry and have lost quite a bit of weight already. Some people might see that as a positive, but I always lose it in my face, which isn't all that attractive... Please, if anyone out there has had this happen after tonsillectomy, post and let me know how long it took to go down, if ever!?! Im starting to feel kind of deperate (maybe it's the hunger). Thanks

Hi eveyone. I have had a swollen uvula many times over the years. It is definately attributed to snoring. I found that in a days time it seems to usually go away. You need to not lay on your back, which really is bad if you snore a lot. I have gone to doctors about his situation and I have been told that you can get a simple operation to lazer the uvula down in size, course you need to consult a doctor as I have. I haven't gotten it done as of yet tho I am considering it in the future. Having a swollen uvula is very uncomfortable to say the least. If I do get an operation in the future I will let eveyone know how that works out. Meanwhile I will do more reserch on it. Good luck to everyone and thanks to all of you for your input.

This is gross! But I sure am reassured by the sheer volume of poor fools just like me to wake up with a gigantic uvula. Just as long as it isn't the first symptom of an oncoming death spiral, I'm OK with it. But I hope it goes away soon because its really annoying. My wife says I probably slept with my mouth open all night long, because I was snoring like Fred Flintstone. No drinking or smoking or standing over bonfires, etc., just snoring. Who would have thought?

Heppened to me for the first time last night. I woke trying to clear my throat and felt like I'd sucked my uvula and soft palete into my mouth :o( I was so worried and spent half an hour looking in the mirror at 4am and another hour worrying that I'd choke if i went back to sleep! Obviously I didn't :o) I was especially worried as I am a singer and any changes in the shape of your mouth and throat changes your voice and it initally had changed the sound I was making! Now the swelling is subsiding and I'm feeling a lot calmer. Thinking back, I had a stuffy nose and so had been breathing through my mouth, which was very dry, I will definitely take some water to bed with me tonight. Good luck everyone and thanks for your thoughts on here x Uvula Rules OK!!! Where do we get the t-shirts from?

This morning I got the worst case of cottonmouth ever. My uvula was so dry that it felt like it folded in half and stuck together like one of those sticky hands. I didn't think much of it and just got some water. That didn't do much though. It is still very large and yes....this sucks. At least I didn't go to the emergency room though....self medication is best.

I can't believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $34668. Isn't that crazy!

It's been consistently harder to swallow. It doesn't hurt. It just feels pretty weird and irritates the hell outta me. It's persisted now for about a week so I scheduled a doctor's check up for tomorrow. I looked in the mirror about 5 min ago and my uvula looks rediculously long. It scared me at first until I came to this page and saw half the world had similar happenings. Hope all goes well tomorrow cuz it bothers me entirely too much.

Uvula...a name as silly as it looks! This is a support group of sorts. I too have a swollen uvula. It has only happened once before a few years ago when I drank too much. This time I am not sure. I have been on Xyrem for over a week and last night I woke up swollowing my uvula. Waiting for the sleep doc to call me back???

Good morning my fellow swollen Uvula friends.Mine's back for the 3rd time in about five years. This one is a little worse than the first two, so like many of you I considered [and my wife insisted] that I seek medical attention.But like many of you I don't feel like waiting 2-4 hours in the ER, by then it will probably have started going down anyway, and I can use that $600-$800 to by a really nice air purifier.
Anyway I found that sucking on ice and popsicles tastes great and gives you something to keep your mind off your dangling participial.
Also try holding your head slightly down, with your chin towards your chest, it keeps the nasty bugger hanging towards your mouth not your throat.
Ps. I want my shirt!

Woke up at 6 am this morning with the same thing, a swollen uvula the size my thumb, dry, painful and, at first, confusing. Until I figured out that I needed to let it be I gagged so uncontrollably I made an awful mess on the kitchen floor. Was a bit scared, I must admit.

This site, when I found it, was a terrific comfort.

I've ingested a lot of water, some advil and Benadryl and the swelling is gone. Unfortunately, it's all stretched out and dangling at the back of my throat like some flaccid alien tenticle or something. I can live with that annoyance, though, compared to the choking pain and discomfort of the early morning.

Tell me this thing will shrink back, though, won't it?

Anyway, thanks for the helpful info, folks.

Ken

I have woken up twice after drinking way to much of draft beer from the same bar. It is kinda strange because it is after drinking quite a bit at the exact same bar, drinking the same beer. I wondered if maybe the lines had bacteria in them. Or it could be dehydration, or sleeping with my mouth open..It went away in a day or so...and I drank some more:)

Hello I woke up this morning with a swollen uluva for the first time so I went to the ER just cause it was a weird feeling they gave me two shots and hopefully it will go away I feel better after ready some of these post.

I have white spots on my uvula too. They are more like bumps. Even though People here seem to be getting over them with water and time, I might, if there's no improvement tomorrow, go to the doc. I've been drinking tons of water and my throat is still killing me.

I think the culprit may be driness with me too. I just had my appendix removed and was forced to sleep on my back for over a week. I snore like crazy, so I can see if that caused it. But why does it take so long to heal???!!!??? :-O

I had oral surgery yesterday with general anesthesia...swollen uvala today. I hope it's gone tomorrow...maybe it's a game they play during surgery, see how far the uvala stretches.

Hello all. I recently had my uvula removed during a tonsilectomy surgery. My doctor told me the reason my uvula would be swollen on some mornings was that when I drank, got sick, or really tired I would "breath" my uvula down my throat and irritate it. In other words anything that caused my throat to swell or relax would cause me to pull on my uvula while trying to breath at night. Its called obsrtuctive sleep apnea and is nothing to scoff at. I will post another message when I get healed to let you know how its going.

i have that swollen uluva too but it started yesterday about yesterday.. the weird thing is i i havent drank alcohol since saturday into sunday. anything i should do to make it more comfortable?

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My daughter woke up this AM with a swollen ovula, actually it was elongated. I appreciated reading all the different entries to help reassure us that it would go away soon & also how to prevent it from happening in the future. I have an air purifier in the room because the whole family has been sick lately. That might have dried out the air too much. I also gave her a new medicine Triaminic liquid for coughs & stuffy nose. We gave her a Children's Benadryl & she fell asleep sitting up. After an hour or so she was feeling better but not yet perfect. She's normal now.

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This is what happens when you stay up all night, drink beer and voka, smoke, do drugs, and talk the night away.... Sometimes it becomes a bigger problem. Nothing like fresh clean air and clean living, yummmm..... Never again!

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Record company EMI sign a deal with the estate of crooner Dean Martin to use the singer's likeness...

Record company EMI sign a deal with the estate of crooner Dean Martin to use the singer's likeness...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...

Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...

Record company EMI sign a deal with the estate of crooner Dean Martin to use the singer's likeness...

Record company EMI sign a deal with the estate of crooner Dean Martin to use the singer's likeness...

Veteran actor William Franklyn, known for voicing the 1960s Schweppes TV adverts, dies aged 81...

Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly signs a $42.5m (£22m) film deal starring his character Bruno...

London-born rapper Sway is to be honoured at the BET Hip-Hop awards in the US...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

Microsoft and Peter Jackson postpone the making of a film based on the Halo video game after backers pull out...

TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...

Veteran actor William Franklyn, known for voicing the 1960s Schweppes TV adverts, dies aged 81...

London-born rapper Sway is to be honoured at the BET Hip-Hop awards in the US...

London-born rapper Sway is to be honoured at the BET Hip-Hop awards in the US...

London-born rapper Sway is to be honoured at the BET Hip-Hop awards in the US...

Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...

William Styron, whose Holocaust novel Sophie's Choice became a film and an opera, has died, aged 81...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are leading the way at this years MTV Europe music awards with four nominations...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

Microsoft and Peter Jackson postpone the making of a film based on the Halo video game after backers pull out...

Microsoft and Peter Jackson postpone the making of a film based on the Halo video game after backers pull out...

Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...

Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...

Jonathan Ross is dubbed "risque" by Ofcom but not in breach of rules over an interview with David Cameron...

Veteran game show host Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting The Price is Right after 35 years...

Veteran game show host Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting The Price is Right after 35 years...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...