Anyone else get a slight tickly in the back of their mouths when they eat really sweet things? What is that?

Yes I get that! What is that? I hate it. I just wanna put my fingers in my mouth and itch the crap out of it. Sometimes I clean my ears and it works. Don’t ask why.

lurve for the question because now I know that I am not the only one who gets an annoying tingly feeling in my throat

Sometimes I get an actual pain, right at the back of my jaw. What is up with that?

I am actually ROFLing at the moment. Lovely question and lovely answers. All I can say is I have no idea what so ever what you guys are talking about. The only thing I know is that sometimes when I eat orange and tomato i get blisters on my tongue… And if I should dare to guess what’s up with that tickling, I think those are caused by tiny lemmings that lives in humid and warm places, such as in your mouth and when they are fed with sweet things, they get all jumpy and cheery, which causes this. It is perfectly normal.

@Jazz: That image made me smile! Cheery lemmings, indeed!

@jazz, amazing! Thanks for clearing that one up for me : )

lemmings? aren’t those creatures? You mean they get sugar hi? HAHA that’s funny!.....and gross…
Thanks

Tingling feeling when eating sweets? Don’t really now what you mean, but I get a slight tingling sensation in the back of my throat when eating specific kinds of fruit, I put it down as a slight allergic reaction.

You might want to check if you get the same reaction for all sweet food or just some special brands of chocolate, candy or chocolate bars. Imo it could be an allergic reaction to some ingredient in the sweet food.

I mean a slight tickling, not tingling. Like little fairies running their tini nails along the back roof of my mouth. I was eating something very sweet with a friend last night and she said the same thing was happening to her. Definitely different from an allergic reaction to something.

Wait you mean it hurts?

I know exactly what you mean!
Its almost itchy to me actually maybe it’s a chemical reaction in whatever peculiar it sweet is…

i just typed ‘when i eat sweet things the roof of my mouth tickles’ into the google search bar and this page came up. thank you god, i am not alone.

ive been ‘suffering’ from this ever since i was a little kid!! I’m 30 now and my friends all laugh at me when i eat sweet things (caramel shortcake or banoffee pie being prime examples) and the tickling starts. it seems to come in pulsing waves coming from the top of my mouth moving towards the back, sometimes it can complete paralyze me and i cant do a thing until it passes, my face will screw up and my eyes will roll into the back of my head until it stops. this can be a good 3 or 4 minutes!!

I’ve coined the term ‘mouthgasm’ for these wee attacks.

I’d love to be hooked up to an ECG machine while i eat something sweet so we could go someway to proving what im talking about because folk are very skeptical when i describe the sensation! sometimes i give up eating what ive started because i just cant deal with the sensation sometimes. I’d love to have a proper explanation for this one!

@garjones46 Welcome to Fluther!

I get the EXACT same thing. I was just eating a jamocha pie from arbys when I got it again, and I wanted to look it up and make sure I was not becoming diabetic :P
I hope not. LOL

I was searching for an answer to why this happens to me too. It isn’t painful, but it is unpleasant. I have noticed it happens when I am eating really super processed disgustingly sweet foods, like store bought brownies, fast food sweets/shakes, or birthday cake, etc. I wonder if it is a chemical in processed treats? I also feel slightly light-headed, but that is probably the sugar rush.
Could this be an early symptom of diabetes? Or my other thought was: candida? I had a systemic candida infection years ago and had all sorts of weird symptoms. I was told I would always need to be careful of my sugar intake….also learned that it can take a long time for an overgrowth of candida to be diagnosed. Symptoms were skin rashes (itchy), muscle pain, headaches, and tiredness.
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I love when food tickles my tongue. :-P That cream in powdered donuts does it the best. My tongue tingles all over and, like garjones said, eyes roll in the back of head. It is like a “mouthgasm.” Nobody I know seems to know what the heck I’m talking about… Sucks for them!

I get this, too, if I eat fudge or something really sugary sweet. Ever since I was a kid. It tickles my throat and makes me cough and it feels all constricted there like I’m going to choke and can’t breathe. I get the pain at the back of the jaw too when eating something really sour or tart—it’s like an icecream headache in the jaw hinge almost, a really sharp stabbing pain as if someone’s poking a needle in there.

My mouth does it too. Not as much as some of the people here but if someone will post a link as to why it happens that would be great.

Folks, you’re experiencing a hyperstimulation of your maxillary nerve plexus. It’s the nerve bundle that gathers up pathways from your lower jaw (tongue attaches there) and runs just above your soft palate. Remember, nerve impulses are electro-chemical, so when a strong signal is being sent, it can affect nearby clustered nerves…rather like poor telephone lines back in the 60’s and 70’s would allow you to sometimes hear a neighbor’s conversation. A very sweet sensation generates this large signal. I’ve experienced it as well, and also had it triggered recently not from a sweet taste, but from an unusually hot jalapeno. The recovery from it is simple…eliminate the sweet/hot taste any way you can.

Oh my gosh! It isn’t just me! But here’s the thing. Unlike most of you, it’s not just super sweet things. For me it’s JUST CAKE. It drives me crazy because so many people, (especially my girlfriend) love cake, but I can’t eat it or I suffer this bizarre phenomena. But that’s not exactly it. It’s JUST the frosting on cakes. There have been select few cakes that I’ve had that don’t give me that unpleasant tickly/itchy feeling in the back of my throat, but there HAVE been some. While searching I found something on Quora that might help answer what’s going on.

“the secondary thing that can happen is that the sugary food may have so much sugar that it acts to remove water from tissues which it contacts on the way through your mouth and down your throat. You might notice an increase in saliva production as you swallow these treats—a reaction to the food “stealing” water from surface cells.”
-Kirk A. Janowiak

For me it isn’t just sweets, it is rich food. Like too much butter on toast. Also Butter cream frosting..more so than just sweet frosting. I wonder if genetics has anything to do with this.