Sensory experience of carbonated drinks

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I'm curious how other people find the experience of drinking carbonated drinks (eg. Coke, Fanta - also known as 'fizzy drinks', 'pop', 'soda', etc.).

I generally avoid them, because they hurt my mouth. The fizziness somehow has a stinging, burning feeling on my lips, tongue and throat, and I find it uncomfortable.

However, I've noticed that when I am feeling disoriented because of too much sensory stimulation in general, I will buy a carbonated drink and drink it in order to somehow focus myself. I think the weird pain feeling somehow helps in that situation.

Anyone else have a similar experience, or am I the only one?

Effect me the same way but probably not to the same extent.

Also agree with what you say about it helping you focus. It is kind of a distraction from everything else.

Personally, I love the tingling, slight stinging feel of carbonated drinks.

Yesterday, I drank 5. When I'm sad and depressed, they can be comforting, and I've been very sad about my cat's recent death. Normally, I try to only drink 2 a day, though.

They are very comforting and familiar and they make me feel happy. I don't know why.

I just responded in another thread how I get an orgasmic feeling from eating a mouthful of Nerds (the candy) while drinking a carbonated drink. I can't explain it, but it's quite an orgasmic head rush, the kind that makes my eyes shut tightly it feels so good. Imagine the BEST orgasmic head rush ever, and that's what I feel when I do this ... so I love them. Believe it or not, I can even feel that feeling while thinking about this topic, as it just happened. Weird, but amazing.

I can't stand the bubbles, when I used to drink carbonated drinks the first thing I would do is shake the bottle and slowly release all the gas so the juice would go flat and be drinkable, but even then I could still taste the carbon so I just drink plain water these days.

It hurts me too. get a nasty pain. I can't drink most carbonated drinks anyway because they make my Tourettes worse.

I like some occasionally but usually they're just bit too fizzy, too flat, or too danged sweet. I used to like seltzer, but the flavored ones seem to have disappeared. Anyway, they have a nasty aftertaste usually and my stomach doesn't like them, so it's all moot.

But you mentioned pain, that's what got my attention. I remember watching a documentary about some fizzy drink or other that said that that's exactly what it is for everyone, what it's supposed to be. Carbonation causes pain, however slight. For some reason, many of us enjoy it.

Yes, I also don't like the sweetness of such drinks. That is interesting that carbonation is supposed to cause pain. I've never heard of that. I remember when I was a kid, I would refuse to drink Coke because it hurt my mouth, and everyone said to me 'No, no - it doesn't hurt. It's fizzy. It's a nice feeling!' and they refused to believe that it hurt me (very frustrating!). But interestingly, I have heard that hot/spicy food hurts the mouth, and that it is a pain that some people enjoy - but for some reason, I love hot spicy food, and always have, since I was a small child. I can eat food that is far spicier than most English people can bear.

Actually, yes, that does make sense to me, even though I find fizzy drinks painful, because there are other sensations of food that have a similar effect on me. With me, it's food that melt in the mouth from crispy to soft liquidy type texture - like meringue. Don't know if you've watched the movie Snowcake, where Sigourney Weaver plays a high-functioning autistic woman, but there is a scene where she is eating snow, and she says that she thinks orgasms must be a similar but inferior type of feeling to that. I don't eat snow, but I could also see where she was coming from.

I think it's more the acid that burns than the carbonation (just guessing)...I kind of like it, especially right after I get out of bed...really jolts me awake @_@

I like it when it fizzes in my nose after I've drunk one, it's fun!

I love carbonated drinks, in fact I drink far too many, more than I do water

Never really considered it 'painful' at all, though I understand how some could.

I used to find it very uncomfortable to drink carbonated drinks when I was younger. I hated the feeling of it fizzing up my nose and stinging my tongue.
I think I've become desensitised to it now, although I still can't drink fizzy drinks very quickly, I have to wait for the fizzing to die down in my mouth before I swallow.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fizzy feeling in my mouth. In fact I am going to open a bottle of sierra mist right now.

i have 2 large identical plastic cups (with handles) that can hold 2 12-oz soft drinks. i'll usually pour both and let it settle. then bang the cup on something to get all the air bubbles out, and defeating the fizz. don't like the fizz. mostly i find comfort in the burning sensation of drinking a Coke. the thickness of it. its smoothness. i'll usually only take a sip at a time, but i'm capable of downing a 12 pack a day easy. although now i'm alot more health conscious, so now its diet pepsi and i try to limit it to less than 6 per day. i always thought it odd that i LOVE coke, but hate diet coke, and i can drink diet pepsi but not regular pepsi. also i don't mind drinking it when it goes "flat" i can pick up a coke from the day before and down that and it doesn't bother me.

also i have never finished a beer in my life, and i'm 33. most i ever drank was a half a beer. they are all fizzy and taste horrible. why on earth would anyone pay so much for something that tastes so horrible. even alcholics tell me beer tastes nasty, lol. now back when i drank, it was the hard stuff, JD, vodka, mixed drinks..ect..but never beer.