Throat Irritation

[calvinguy]

Whenever I vape, I can feel a scratchy sort of sensation on the back of my throat. I can also feel a slight tingly sensation on my tongue.

I'm not sure if this is because I have a reaction against PG concentrated liquids or because of the nicotine. The strength of the e juices I use are 18mg.

I'm using a standard ego battery at the stock voltage settings. I don't lung inhale. I find that the first initial hits are harsh, but the ones after that aren't as bad; however, when I take an hour break or so from vaping, the harshness returns. I've tried multiple juices, but all are 70/30 pg vg. I find that some liquids are more harsh than others, the least harsh being menthol. I plan to try out a bunch of different combinations of nicotine strength and pg vg ratio on my next order.

My question is if anybody has experienced the same thing and if switching to 100 % VG or lower nicotine has solved their issues.

 

[Clarity_Infinite]

If you just started Vaping and were not a previous tobacco smoker 18MG is too high. Try 6-8MG or no Nicotine. Also Throat irritation is usually caused because you where vaping a lot and you weren't drinking water, your throat was dry

 

[calvinguy]

I make sure I stay hydrated when I vape. Strangely the irritation happens when I take the initial vape, and lessens as I chain vape. If I stop vaping for awhile and come back, the irritation is back and the cycle continues again.

 

[wrath186]

Besides reducing the nic, you may want to try reducing your voltage or watts. If your slightly burning your juice it may not affect the flavor too much, but your throat notices.

 

[calvinguy]

Besides reducing the nic, you may want to try reducing your voltage or watts. If your slightly burning your juice it may not affect the flavor too much, but your throat notices.

As a beginner vaper, I've decided to use the standard ego batteries. These aren't the twist version and there are no voltage controls. I don't believe I am burning my juice since the default settings is probably somewhere between 3.2-3.7 volts. At the moment I am just trying to pinpoint whether the irritation is from the nicotine or the pg.

 

[alexl22]

I have the same thing happening to me, I just started to vape on monday and the first few initial vapes in a session irritate my throught but after the 3-4 one it calms down. Not sure if its because im new or sensitive to one of the ingredients. It doesnt seem to be too big of a deal through and am enjoying thus far.

 

[Robino1]

It's probably a combination of newness to vaping and how high your nic is. My tongue gets a sand papery feeling when I'm ready to drop my nic level again. Nic will irritate the throat a bit too. Try lowering your nic, a little bit. Since the irritation goes away, it sounds like your body is adjusting.

 

[RosaJ]

Make sure that whatever juice delivery device (carto/clearo/etc.) doesn't run down to almost empty. This happened to me in the beginning when I wanted to not waste juice and my throat got very irritated because I was vaping an almost dry wick/carto.