It is 4:46 am. I was awaked by severe coughing, a severe burning in my lungs and throat and the taste of vomit and, I think, soap in my mouth. I keep coughing and when I do, I feel like I need to vomit, but so far I haven't and I am unable to return to sleep.
I ate some tacos from a mexican food place before bed, but I've eaten from this place many times without issue and I've never had an issue, but I can taste them in my mouth as well. I don't know if maybe I threw up in my mouth a little bit while I was sleeping, like we sometimes do when we are awake and make it somehow got into my lungs? Is that possible? But why am I tasting soap? Every time I try to fall back to sleep I begin coughing again and the burning stops. I tried to drink some water, then some milk and then eventually some soda for the bubbles, but this taste is still there and if I lay down it starts up again.
I don't have any other symptoms. I just have burning lungs, throat and a strange soapy/vomity flavor in my throat and mouth. I have not vomited and the coughing is seeming to subside.
Should I be worried that maybe there was something in the food I ate, or am I overreacting?
a little confused