How to supress gag reflex? (Completely non-sexual reason!)

[ShadowSabre]

Aside from hypnosis-- which I just might resort to-- do any of you know any ways of suppressing the gag reflex? (And, no, this isn't about giving someone a blow job.)

For the past few days, I've been battling a tough cold-- coughing, sore throat, fever, etcetera. This morning, I woke up with the sensation of something caught in my throat. However, I can't cough it up or swallow it, and the sensation stays in the same place, even if I eat or drink, although drinking seems to repress the sensation for a few minutes. Coughing-- which I can't help doing, despite medicine and cough drops-- makes it much worse.

I also have an extremely sensitive gag reflex. This means that my attempts to poke at the caught thing, assuming it's not just a side effect of the cold, made me gag, and the sensation also makes me gag if I concentrate on it too much or cough too much.

So I'm trying to figure out some way to repress the urge to gag when probing and/or when the thing intensifies (and hopefully this goes away on its own, if it's not something actually stuck there.)

I'm not sure why I have a feeling that this forum, of all the ones I have an account on, will be the most helpful....

[mindlover]

Try some Cloroseptic(sp) spray. A throat numbing agent is your only medical option other than forced regurgitation.

[lauramcan]

[ShadowSabre]

It went away when my cold did, so it might've just been a side effect of the sore throat.

The cholroseptic did help, though (although it tasted nasty. Ick, medicine cherry.)

Thanks for the advice. :)