Really painful and sore throat!

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Jamzy

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Hey everyone. New to the forums and first time posting something up here. Just have a few questions. relatively new to vaping (id say a few months). My set up is the smok xcube2 with the tfv4 tank. Thing is awesome. First month or so i used the stock triple coil that came with it and i liked it a lot. Decided to order the quad coils and that is what ive been using recently. Since the first time using the quad coils, i was getting a lot of gurgling and spitback. So this was going on for a week while i was troubleshooting and trying to figure out a solution. I changed the coil, cleaned out the flooded tank, even tried diff juices. One thing that finally worked was using a diff juice and turning the wattage down. The triple coil, i was running at 80w and it was perfect. for this quad coil i assumed it would need more power so i was running it at 80 and even 90. Not until i turned it down to like 50-60 is when i started getting smooth hits and no spitback. Finally. Was getting long and smooth drags. I looked into the juice as well, i believe it has a 30/70 PG to VG ratio. I read that PG is what gives u the throat hit, so i already have ordered higher VG juice.
My problem now is that ive had a sore throat the past week and i havent vaped since. I thought i may have been getting sick, or maybe dry throat, or the cessation of smoking cigs (even tho i will occasionally have one lol) thats causing this pain. its bearable during the day because i can take cough drops and drink water, but at night and when i wake up its pretty bad. Past few mornings have been painful. Im wondering if anyone else has ever encountered this? Could it be from the vape, from the spitback, or from something else? Kinda has me worried but wanted to see if this is a common problem before going to the Dr. im hoping it just goes away within the next few days. If anyone can chime in I would greatly appreciate it.

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My bite at the apple is maybe your sensitive to the PG. I'm not but there are many that are. Something else is that your vaped too high of wattage and burned your throat. From my experience with building and not torching a coil first they tend to compact together and distort when you fire them too hot for the first few times. When you use a new coil turn the power way down till the coil is set. Your using stock coils and maybe there is metal to metal contact(crappy coil) in one of the coils and that also could burn your throat. There are so many variables to why you have a sore throat but I would drift toward the stock coil being culprits. I don't use stock coils and rebuild my own so all I'm just shooting in the dark to what might be your issue.
 

Jamzy

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My bite at the apple is maybe your sensitive to the PG. I'm not but there are many that are. Something else is that your vaped too high of wattage and burned your throat. From my experience with building and not torching a coil first they tend to compact together and distort when you fire them too hot for the first few times. When you use a new coil turn the power way down till the coil is set. Your using stock coils and maybe there is metal to metal contact(crappy coil) in one of the coils and that also could burn your throat. There are so many variables to why you have a sore throat but I would drift toward the stock coil being culprits. I don't use stock coils and rebuild my own so all I'm just shooting in the dark to what might be your issue.
Possible it's a bad coil. Definitely turned the wattage down but I was vaping at 80 with the initial triple coil. I never felt a burning in my throat while vaping. It's now that I feel it afterwards.
 

Jamzy

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Too much vapor and Nic can give you a sore throat kinda. It could have taken a while for it to catch up to you. It could also be that they are using different wire in the quad and it's bothering you.

But really, have you checked you temperature? You could be sick.
def not sick. I believe it was all the spitback that messed my throat up bad. Changing coils, and also got 20/80 pg/vg ratio juice. Hopefully im good to go
 

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My problem now is that ive had a sore throat the past week and i havent vaped since. I thought i may have been getting sick, or maybe dry throat,
Don't forget it's also allergy season here in the northern hemisphere. They never used to bother me before but both last year and this year (aka "since I've been vaping"; coincidence, or cause? who knows...) I have had pretty bad symptoms. The dry scratchy throat, the incessant coughing that never seems to do any good, and vaping can get pretty uncomfortable. The doctors called it asthma; I'm not too sure about that, but they gave me Albuterol for it and it helps a lot so I don't really care what they call it as long as my insurance pays for enough inhalers to get me through the Springtime.
 

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With the tfv4 at high wattages, you really don't know how much juice that tank can guzzle, and cause dehydration. I would try lowering your wattage to around 20w, and increase your h2o intake big time. I'm going through the same thing atm, dry irritated throat. I put my tfv4 down to 20w, and It's what is making it bearable to vape for me. Also going to mix up some unflavored. Hope that helps. Just My :2c:
 
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