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    Default "Tonsil Stones"

    Or "Tonsilloliths" I think they are called.

    Does anybody else have this? I do and it's really gross.

    I'm apologetic for forcing ya'll to hear bout it but I figure its not the irkiest thing posted in BB so.

    What happens is your tonsils have little crypts all in them and they are supposed to shed the dead cells constantly but people who have this, theirs don't, and it causes bacteria to attack them and you get these hard white little masses, no more than two at a time for me so far, that are smaller than a pea but look kind of like a giant canker sore. So after freaking out that I had syphilis or something then realizing I hadn't had sex in like years so it wasn't that. So I looked around online and this is what I discovered it to be. The white things don't hurt at all and I can scrape them off.....but the really gross part is that before I knew what they were I scraped one off and sniffed it to see if it seemed like just food that got built up or something - and it had the most foul disgusting odor in the whole world, I swear. I almost puked.

    Anyway after I discovered that I googled around and saw that these are what that big word up there is. And I dont wanna get my tonsils out.

    Sorry thats so gross. Does anyone else have this or is it not that common?

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    whoa.... cool. I mean I'm sorry you have them, but I've never heard of them and they sound interesting. My friend gets tonsillitis every year and her toncils look like little white sleeping kittens in her throat... Anyway do these stones that you can scrape off appear on your toncils? if so doesnt it feel weird to have them touched? (I don't have toncils anymore)
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    i get them. I don't scrape them off though, I sqeeze them out by pushing on the affected tonsil with the back end of a tweezers, until the whole things pops out. Then I gargle with salt water. It really only seems to happen to me when my nose is stopped up and I have to sleep with my mouth open. They usually look like sesame seeds!

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    Yeah! ^^^^

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    wow it has a name. My sis and i discovered we were normal when she brought it up one day and I said that I had them too.
    Mines come out by themselves and they are the most foul smelling things in the world.
    So lets celebrate our (smelly) normalness

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    YAY!!!!!!!!!

    Someone else has them.

    They are so gross.

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    this thread is awesome!! I love this stuff... this is too cool for words...maybe I'm weird, but i kinda wish i had toncils now so i could maybe get these things!!
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    I have a friend who has these! She's so funny, she's all obsessed with cleaning them out now. When she does it she sniffs her finger, gags, laughs then sniffs her finger again...lol I love that girl.

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    I had these. I thought I had some weird affliction for a while. Although, since I did a cleanse (before I was preggers with Adrian), and increased my water intake I haven't gotten them at all. I do also gargle every morning now with warm salt water...so that may help as well.

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    What do they smell like?! I want someone I know to get them and let me smell 'em. (in this thread I feel like a little kid popping into a conversation and being annoying)
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    I used to get them ALOT. I asked my doc about it, and he said there was nothing you could do other than gargle and such. I would go everyday and use a qtip to clean them out. I don't seem to have them anymore though. I switched mouthwashes to the crest stuff. I don't know if that's what helped or not, but they've almost cleared up completely. I may get one every few months. That's it. I really did think I had some weird infection at first from not getting my strept throat treated one time or something.

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    What do they smell like?! I want someone I know to get them and let me smell 'em. (in this thread I feel like a little kid popping into a conversation and being annoying)
    They literally smell like dog shit/dog breath--the worst kind. At least mine do.

    Yeah, ya'll aren't alone; I get them too. In fact, I posted about it last fall sometime...I'd search for the link, but I gots to get in the shower right now!!

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    I've never heard of this before..interesting though..sorry im no help lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glamazon View Post
    They literally smell like dog shit/dog breath--the worst kind. At least mine do.

    Yeah, ya'll aren't alone; I get them too. In fact, I posted about it last fall sometime...I'd search for the link, but I gots to get in the shower right now!!
    I was curious, so I looked it up....

    http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sho...ghlight=throat

    This is crazy, but i'm gonna be on the lookout! I'm constantly poking and prodding anytime I find anything weird going on .....it's like a disease! I can't leave anything alone! There was a time that I had strep throat and I was really grossed out by the white spots in the back of my throat and I even attacked those with a qtip. I couldn't resist.






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    I think whenever my tonsils start looking like that I go to the doctor and they tell me I have an infection.







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    I grew up with chronic tonsilitis, but they never took mine out. I get these things on my tonsils ALL the time. In fact, I hardly even have a tonsil on one side after so many attacks. It's almost an anit-tonsil, and I have HUGE tonsil on the other side! It's weird.

    But when I get a cold or am run down I get these little things back there. So gross! But it's usually my first sign that I'm not well and need to take better care of myself.

    The bad thing, my son inherited my bad tonsils...his are HUGE always, and when he gets sick with anything, they swell even more...poor guy.




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    Yep. EE is right. I think alot has to do with getting sick or running yourself down too much. That's when I tend to notice mine flaring up. And I also had tonsilitus, strept throat, and laryngitus ALOT as a kid. Maybe that has something to do with it too.

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    I used to get sore throats alot but havent in a REAL long time. Its weird. They don't hurt or anything they are just annoying.

    And yeah they do smell like dog shit.

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    They tend to clear up as you get older if that's at all comforting.
    My youngest kid gets them CONSTANTLY. Her pediatrician said some people just have bigger pockets in thier tonsils than others and it's no biggie. Gargling with a hydrogen peroxide/water mix helps dislodge them.



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    I LOVE GROSS THINGS! I'm with Roulette here. I mean, sorry you have them, though.

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    I call them "tonsil rice".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel View Post
    I LOVE GROSS THINGS!
    Yeah, even though I was a little grossed out, I am so fascinated with gross stuff, so it was a little bit of entertainment for me.

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    I get them too, under the same circumstances described by EE. I never get them when I'm healthy and feeling good, only when I have a sore throat... and then I tear the cotton off a Q-tip and use the stick end to pry them out. I can never seem to get the whole thing because I gag so easily, but I find as I start to feel better they dislodge themselves.

    To me they smell sort of like how the gunk between your teeth smells when you haven't flossed in like, years, and you finally get around to it. I don't of course, know THAT smell due to my own oral hygiene habits, but rather, I once dated a guy with a dental bridge who didn't like to floss. I tried, in the manner suggested by popular women's magazines, making flossing into a "fun" and, um, "coupley" activity a la, "Wow honey, you know what rocks so hard? FLOSSING! Yes, flossing really and truly rocks so hard. Let's floss right now, together! Oh, do let's!" Finally he got the floss up and under the dental bridge, yanked it around some, and pulled it out. I have never seen that much crap come out from between someone's teeth. I have never been quite so queasy, either.

    Oh yeah, but back to tonsil stones. Years later, I was looking at my tonsil stones in the mirror and I thought to myself, "Golly, I bet if I mess with those gross nasty things in my throat something will happen." And what happened was, I dislodged one and the smell caused a sickening flashback to my dental bridge (ex) boyfriend.

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    Yeah I've gotten them, too.

    I thought they were called Kusmin's Spirals or something... I dunno. Some ear nose and throat doctor said something similar to that name.

    And yes...they smell like...a dead body in the woods on day 20.

    Nasty.

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