Oh is this gross.. TONSIL STONES eww

[purr]

:puke:

This is so nasty... I have to tell someone - hubbys still at work and my moms not home.

I've been having this nasty ass nasal dranage and I figured its probably my allergies since its been going on well over a month now. I also get this nasty taste occasionally from the back of my throat.

I start this nasty hacking spell and I go to the sink to spit out whatever came up and there was this chunk of god knows what that looked like an oat cluster from cereal.

As I'm the hypochondriac of the year in my town I'm thinking the worst.. I'm coughing up parts of my lung.

So I go online and I search like mad for smelly oat bran looking stuff from throat and like terms and I came up with tonsil stones.

SOOO GROSS. It even smelled like hell.

I just had to share :)

:puke:

[obxhead]

1. yes, that is gross. Thanks, I think. n/t

[purr]

4. It is!! I had to share :)

SOMEONE out there on here HAS to have had this before!!! I cant be the only weirdo with tonsil stones!!

[graywarrior]

2. Heh. I've been on line looking up my symptoms

I think I have a tumor growing in my ear. It couldn't be just allergies. I need to worry about my health at least 5 times a day.

[purr]

3. I do that!!

I find the worst case scenarios and I throw them at my doc and he laughs at me.

[graywarrior]

5. I'm going to see my doctor tomorrow.

He already cured me of stomach cancer, which I thought I had in April. Tomorrow I am going to ask him how much the surgery will cost me for removing the abnormal excessive skin growing in my ear.

[purr]

7. I go to my optomistrist tomorrow because my pupil in my right eye

is larger than the one in the left. I also have an intraocular lense in my left eye from removal of a congenital cataract. I'm hoping this is the case.

I was in the er the other day because of my eye thing and they ruled out everything from tumors to masses to aneruysm (sp) from a CT scan and told me I have a migrane.

[graywarrior]

10. Maybe we should see psychiatrists instead.

I don't even have health insurance. I plan my hypochondriac attacks for twice a year so I can get my fix in. I learned out to delay my rewards.

[purr]

11. I thought about it.. mentioned it to my doc and he said

you just have anxiety.. calm your ass down AND GET OFF THE INTERNET.

[graywarrior]

14. Wod, that's what MY doctor said to me

He goes, What's DU? I try to explain. He gave me free samples of some anti depressant. I threw them away. Can't wait to tell him that one.

[purr]

15. Anti depressants dont work for me..

Ive been on several and they just give me the cruddy side effects and dont take away my anxiety. I cant help it I type in my symptoms and every bad disease comes up and makes my stress level go to 300%.

[graywarrior]

16. Jesus, you and I should start a support group

When I have nothing to do, I check for lumps.

[purr]

18. I sit there and feel my pulse and count them..

We should.. Hypochondriacs Unite.

My mom told me I need to talk to someone about it.. why should I pay to talk to a shrink and all he'll do is give me nasty drugs that dont work on me and cause liver problems and tell me that its all in my head.

My husband says I need to stop looking at the internet.

My grandmother says I'm getting older and shes going to throw my laptop out the window.

My doc says get off the damn internet and gave me his cell phone number if I have any questions after hours :rofl:

[graywarrior]

19. Let's face it, we're ARE sick.

[purr]

23. Indeed... I second that!

[Jamastiene]

24. My cat, Yogi, had that happen once.

The vet said if it cleared up in a day or two, not to worry, but if it didn't he'd need to do a CAT scan, no kidding. It cleared up.

[purr]

26. LOL Cat scan on a Cat....

:rofl: I'm in one of those moods tonight I tell ya.

[RevCheesehead]

6. Those are boogers that lost their way.

[LaurenG]

8. lol nt

[purr]

9. isnt that gross? boogers in my throat!

they were kinda hard like rubbery too. eww

[RevCheesehead]

17. It's probably just sinus drainage.

But if you coughed it up, it was probably a mucous plug. My mom has serious pulminary problems, so I've learned more than I want to know on the subject.

edit/I have to know - what on earth inspired you to SMELL it? Ewww.

[purr]

20. I didnt have to put it up to my nose.. it stunk from the sink!!

So then I got up close and personal with this blob and made sure thats what was stinking (had my 3 month old and was making sure he didnt crap his pants).

Mucous plug? I only thought that was a pregnancy term when your going into labor.. *must stop myself from looking up serious respiratory problems*

[RevCheesehead]

22. Don't do it.

Do not go over to Web MD. Stay here and have a beer. :toast:

[purr]

27. Web MD is bad for me.. another one is medhelp.org

I get freaked anytime I go to those pages..

[Jamastiene]

12. You should try puking up thick, gritty, brown bile.

That's what I was doing before I had my gall bladder taken out. It was the consistency of large pellets of brown sand mixed with yellowish brown bile. I could hear it hitting my teeth. Trust me, there is grosser than tonsil stones.

:D Btw, hope you get well soon.

[purr]

13. Ugh! I need to get my gallbladder removed too.

Its full of stones and my HIDA scan came back at 15%.

How was your surgery? I'm worried sick over it.

[Jamastiene]

21. Piece of cake,

kinda old cake though. Here's the truth. If you have the larascopic surgery, with the itty bitty tiny cuts on your stomach, it'll hurt like hell for about a week. That is, if they cut you right in your belly button like they did me. Otherwise, probably not much pain at all. I do know one thing. I feel 110% better now that I have had it done. The puking has stopped and I cannot have another gall bladder attack now, because as the anesthesiologist said, I "donated" my gall bladder to science. It does take time to build your muscles in your stomach back, but it's not that bad, really.

Don't worry. I worried too, but afterward, I was so happy to be able to eat again and not have to lean with my back against the wall in total agony right before the inevitable brown bile purging. It had to go somewhere, I guess and it couldn't get through the ducts. It was a very simple operation, I thought, and I am a total wuss.

[purr]

25. The thing that is stumping my docs is that I have little to NO symptoms of

a bad gallbladder. They want to wait until I show more classic signs.

I get the occasional pain in the middle of my shoulder blades and a pain right under my sternum and thats it. Oh.. I also get very burpy/gassy.

He said until I show signs of classic symptoms to leave it in. I was fine with that until he told me what can happen after your gb is out - bile dumping, chronic shits, etc..

[Jamastiene]

28. The shits do lighten up after a couple of months.

I still have them from time to time if I eat a very fatty type food, but the shits did go away as a rule for me about 2 months after the surgery. I'm not sure about bile dumping. What's that?

[purr]

29. From what I gather..

Because your gallbladder stores bile and when you get it removed the bile has no where to go so it all comes out the south end.

[Jamastiene]

34. Well, yeah, with everything else. I must say

mine has always stunk so bad that I don't spend much time inspecting it. I tend to hightail it outta the bathroom, so it hasn't been an issue. I haven't noticed anything different.

[Kali]

30. So far (haven't finished) this is the funniest thread I have read

in ages. I am nominating.

[purr]

31. HAHAHA!!!

Glad to know us hypochondriacs are that funny :rofl:

I'll be sending you my next tonsil stone! :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. Peoples' serious

health problems are funny for you? You must be great at parties. :eyes:

fsc

[Kali]

60. No people's serious health problems are not funny to me

but peoples funny descriptions and humorous acknowledgements of their own foibles are. Perhaps I should have posted it as a reply at the end of the first sub-thread, that is where I was reading.


My sincere apologies to Purr and Greywarrior if I offended you in any way, and I hope if my perception that you were actually being funny is correct you will let FSC know.

[Sanity Claws]

35. I'm glad they found each other.

They have a lot in common.

[purr]

33. UGH!! It just happened again!!

putrid!

[graywarrior]

36. Post a picture so we can all worry.

[purr]

37. No its scary..

you might go blind

[graywarrior]

38. I already am going blind from trying to get 400 posts done

by November 20.

[purr]

40. watch for signs of carpal tunnel while your at it..

[graywarrior]

48. Can you get that in your feet?

Because I can hardly walk on my right foot for the past week.

[purr]

49. Gout?

Could be gout!!!

[graywarrior]

52. No. It's between the 3rd & 4th bone. I looked it up

but I can't remember what it was. I really should make lists of all my symptoms and possible maladies so I can go over them before I fall asleep, which I don't because I have insomnia due to obsessing about disease.

[Mr.Green93]

39. Sounds like HPV on your tonsils

Have them looked at.

[graywarrior]

41. What the hell is that?

I need to look it up.

[purr]

43. like genital warts on your tonsils!!

:scared:

[purr]

42. eww!

where would i have picked that up from? i get tested every year!!

[graywarrior]

44. How would you get that in your lungs?

[purr]

45. aliens?

[graywarrior]

46. Of course.

Silly me. The probe.

[purr]

47. How could you forget?????

[graywarrior]

50. Sorry. My ear is closing up so I probably forgot.

[purr]

51. damn tumors!

[graywarrior]

53. I thought there was only one?

What have you heard?

[purr]

54. no no no multiple.. alien implants

[graywarrior]

56. Phew

[Briarius]

55. Sounds like the things I had after my sinus surgery

nasty, nasty things... gross as all get out but nothing serious as I remember. Kinda like boogers, they're not bad, just gross

[graywarrior]

57. This whole thread is gross

[purr]

59. Isnt it?

[purr]

58. thats how it is!

really gross... im a little bit more relaxed now that i know what it is.. really freaked me out

[graywarrior]

61. Spreading hypochondriac paranoia all over the internet

always exhausts me.

[purr]

62. ahh.. we need high quality shrinks

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

63. No one would really understand us.

Our problem is "special" and different from other peoples'.

[purr]

64. Because we're really SPECIAL people!!

ah shit.. I really hope no one thinks i'm really this nuts.. I'm really spunky tonight for some reason and in a really good mood.

Plain ol fun

[graywarrior]

65. LOST IS ON!

All my symptoms magically vanish when I watch LOST. That's where real stuff happens.

[purr]

69. Never watched Lost. What is it?

is it the magical cure all?

[Scout1071]

66. It's totally normal in people who still have their tonsils.

It's bacteria that accumulates in the pockets on your tonsils. Every now and then you cough one up like a cat coughs up a hairball.

And yes, they smell disgusting.

I talked with a doctor about it and she suggested using a tongue scraper as part of my dental routine to help keep some of the bacteria from accumulating. Works like a champ and breath is fresher than I ever knew possible. Of course I've always been a tongue brusher, but had no idea the powers of the tongue scraper until the last few years.

Give it a go!

PS - Sorry for being so disgusting in this post, but it seemed to fit right in with the thread.

[graywarrior]

67. Your post fits right in

[purr]

68. Thanks for the tip!

I think I have one of them stashed in my bathroom drawers. I thought brushing my tongue was sufficient enough. Will have to try that now.

No need to be sorry about being disgusting.. After 3 kids disgusting isnt in my vocabulary any more.

[graywarrior]

70. Use an emory board

[purr]

72. oww!!

poor taste buds!

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

71. jee...thanks for sharing...

WHERE ARE THE PICTURES???








Just kidding :silly:

[graywarrior]

73. I have to go watch LOST

Maybe I'll get lucky and get acid reflux while I'm watching.