Feel like I'm drowning...

[jeramyjp]

Sup fellow vapors!

Today I feel like asking a simple question, that may or may not have a simple answer:
Do you feel like you're drowning when exhaling?
I ask because here lately, with my KVapor V81 / Omega rda, when I exhale, some vapor comes out my nose... And it reminds me of jumping in a pool, and water goes up my nose... What the heck is up with that?

 

[WattWick]

You do vaporize your liquids prior to inhaling?

(Sorry couldn't help it)

 

[danfinger]

You do vaporize your liquids prior to inhaling?

(Sorry couldn't help it)

Oh man. I was just about to ask the exact same thing.

 

[Miata GT]

Simple answer: no!

By drowning do you mean that weird taste/smell that you get when water goes up your nose or just the sensation of 'fullness' from something more than air being in there...or both?

 

[AndriaD]

Could be you're using too much VG. I feel like I'm suffocating, can't draw breath at all, if I use more than 30% VG.

Andria

 

[CastleRat]

Sounds like it's snot a problem?


Sorry.

 

[porkchopbun]

Maybe play with air holes on your rda if possible..or get a another one design more for flavor..If I do recall..the Omega is cloud chaser rda..so you might want to look into more flavor chaser like Magma, or even Zenith where you kinda get the best of both words.

You could play around with your builds, go up on resistance,...not sure if your Omega supports single coil...

BTW..what is your builds like,...resistance reading?

 

[jeramyjp]

Haha to some answers! And yes, weird taste/smell associated with getting water up your nose.
PG makes my throat sore so I usually go from 80% to 100% VG.

My build is a dual coil build. 0.5 ohms

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

Sounds like waterboarding. Maybe vaporboarding?

 

[DetraMental]

Vg gives a thick vapor so I can see how it'd make you feel that way. It does it to me as well. I had to cut back on it to a 50/50 mix.

 

[iamthevoice]

Why not make a couple small batches of your ADV with lower VG to determine if that's the cause? The body does have a mechanism that triggers the desire to breath based on CO2 concentration in blood, affected by not getting enough oxygen per breath.

 

[jeramyjp]

Found if I open up the holes 100% it doesn't happen. Odd, but thanks everyone! Even you jokesters.

 

[realsis]

Glad YOU Got It Figured out!!

 

[AndriaD]

Haha to some answers! And yes, weird taste/smell associated with getting water up your nose.
PG makes my throat sore so I usually go from 80% to 100% VG.

Well then you have to decide... do you want to stop having a sore throat, or do you want to breathe? I keep seeing more and more posts that indicate clearly that high-Vg use is just not conducive to breathing, and my own experience is exactly that. To keep breathing, I have to vape at least 75% PG.

You could also dilute the VG 10%-25%, but that build looks like you're a cloud chaser... so you might rather just keep drowning rather than thin the vapor.

Andria

 

[jeramyjp]

I am a big visual/flavor guy. Gotta see the cloud to feel like I'm doing something

 

[The Cloud Minder]

Well then you have to decide... do you want to stop having a sore throat, or do you want to breathe? I keep seeing more and more posts that indicate clearly that high-Vg use is just not conducive to breathing, and my own experience is exactly that. To keep breathing, I have to vape at least 75% PG.

You could also dilute the VG 10%-25%, but that build looks like you're a cloud chaser... so you might rather just keep drowning rather than thin the vapor.

Andria

Wow, really? Now I'm sure, with me, it is most likely because I'm still using beginner fair equipment, but even when I vape 100% pure glycerin, I don't get that feeling. Or maybe it is just my Super Lungs. (I had them installed in 1985, by the same guy that gave Zaphod his extra head)

 

[Sgt.Rock]

Wow, really? Now I'm sure, with me, it is most likely because I'm still using beginner fair equipment, but even when I vape 100% pure glycerin, I don't get that feeling. Or maybe it is just my Super Lungs. (I had them installed in 1985, by the same guy that gave Zaphod his extra head)

50/50 for me or even 60/40 or I also feel the heavy lung syndrome

And contrary to popular opinion, you can spew out some pretty decent clouds with a 50/50 mix--just ask my wife

 

[The Cloud Minder]

50/50 for me or even 60/40 or I also feel the heavy lung syndrome

And contrary to popular opinion, you can spew out some pretty decent clouds with a 50/50 mix--just ask my wife

Anything more than 50% PG makes me hack and cough, and if I wanted that, I could have kept smoking. ... But I just gotta have some PG, 100% VG doesn't even register in my lungs, it's like I just inhaled air. Not satisfying.

 

[AndriaD]

Wow, really? Now I'm sure, with me, it is most likely because I'm still using beginner fair equipment, but even when I vape 100% pure glycerin, I don't get that feeling. Or maybe it is just my Super Lungs. (I had them installed in 1985, by the same guy that gave Zaphod his extra head)

Well clearly not everyone reacts to VG as I, and apparently a good many others, do; for those people, clouds like cool whip aren't a problem. But some people really do have serious issues with VG, and at that point you either have to dilute the Vg pretty heavily, 10%-25%, or you have to go to a high-PG blend -- or quit vaping, I guess, but for a lot of us that's not really an option.

Andria

 

[The Cloud Minder]

Well clearly not everyone reacts to VG as I, and apparently a good many others, do; for those people, clouds like cool whip aren't a problem. But some people really do have serious issues with VG, and at that point you either have to dilute the Vg pretty heavily, 10%-25%, or you have to go to a high-PG blend -- or quit vaping, I guess, but for a lot of us that's not really an option.

Andria

That's kind of a bummer. For me it's fun puffing out my little clouds with 100% VG, but it doesn't satisfy the urge to smoke. To do that, I have to have between 20 & 50% PG.

In my little tanks, I haven't really noticed much throat hit from nicotine, no matter the level.