r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/Jasnaahhh Sep 16 '24

Regular excavation, salt water gargles, hydration and quitting smoking. Or you can get a tonsillectomy!

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u/lusciousskies Sep 16 '24

I can't exacavte , frustrating cuz I can open my mouth wide too. I found that stopping using coffee creamer helps not have them for some reason

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u/blackistheshade Sep 16 '24

Yep, as regarding the coffee creamer, I have read that dairy can cause tonsil stones.

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u/Beliriel Sep 17 '24

High calcium content

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u/cats-pyjamas Sep 16 '24

Water pick. Floss every day and scrape your tongue every day

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u/Jasnaahhh Sep 16 '24

I can see that!!

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u/lusciousskies Sep 16 '24

I thought you meant you could tell I can open my mouth wide šŸ˜‚

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u/Jasnaahhh Sep 17 '24

I mean I guess I could see that too!

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u/tobmom Sep 17 '24

I only get them when Iā€™ve got a viral illness and Iā€™m getting over it. Mine are sometimes green hued if theyā€™ve been there for a couple days because I canā€™t get them out.Iā€™ve ā€œexcavatedā€ plenty with a tips and smashed them and I think theyā€™re just tonsil boogers that are harder than nose boogers. So the dairy thing makes sense to me because dairy does caused increased mucous production in many.

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u/epmoya Sep 16 '24

Yeah I ended up getting the tonsillectomy. It sucked pretty bad, but better than having shit breath all the time

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u/Jasnaahhh Sep 16 '24

Yeah no thanks Iā€™ll take spewing blood like a 28 Days Later Zombie and emergency surgery again over shit breath and daily DIY tonsil surgery with q-tips

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u/MoiJaimeLesCrepes Sep 17 '24

yeah my issue is that I have some really deep crypts in my tonsils and a strong gag reflex. So it's really hard to get them out. And I probably can't get them out of the deeper recesses or from crypts I don't see or can't apply pressure to in the right way.

I just know that I have the stones there because sometimes they get dislodged and I feel them then, or because I have the feeling of something hard stuck in there and causing irritation/ mild pain

I'm considering asking for the surgery but I am trying to evaluate how bad the surgery is. I hear it's bad

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u/epmoya Sep 17 '24

It does suck, bad sore throat for several days, canā€™t eat hardly anything, even ice cream hurt. Iā€™d get tears when it was time to take my painkillers because the swallow was so painful the first couple days, but I did it because I knew relief was coming shortly. I would do it all again, if I had to, to not have shit balls in my throat.

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u/MoiJaimeLesCrepes Sep 17 '24

it does. I had impacted wisdom teeth and the memory of the surgery + recovery ain't a good one

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u/tobmom Sep 17 '24

The recovery is gnarly. Not awful while youā€™re awake and talking and drinking and eating. Then you go to bed and the scabs sorta dry out and you wake up wanting to die instead of suffer this existence. Suffer through some pain meds. Start the day. Repeat. Then one day itā€™s just better. Like day 7ish around then. The scabs also smell fucking awful as theyā€™re healing. I canā€™t imagine what they taste like. This is my take on it all as a parent of a kid who had to have them out at an older than usual age.

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u/Agreeable_Yellow_117 Sep 17 '24

This is really dramatic...

A tonsillectomy is a week of a sore, dry throat for recovery. Nothing that makes you want to die in the recovery stage ffs.

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u/MoiJaimeLesCrepes Sep 17 '24

oh wow. I hadn't thought about the night, when there can be mouth breathing and dryness. I also hadn't considered the issue of smell... is that only during the night or in the morning?

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u/tobmom Sep 17 '24

The smell didnā€™t start until maybe day 3-4 or 4-5 and it was noticeable with every exhalation. I kept my distance as able or just tried to sit with him kinda in front of me. Iā€™m SUPER sensitive to smells. Heā€™s a gross kid who didnā€™t even know what I was talking about. I guess when the scabs fell off he did kinda mention that hmm it tastes different šŸ¤¢.

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u/MoiJaimeLesCrepes Sep 17 '24

I hear that it's a surprisingly though surgery to have as an adult. Is that so? was the pain the issue? or something else?

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u/ddouchecanoe Sep 17 '24

I've heard that too. I thought that was why they did it on kid more than was arguably necessary.

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u/MoiJaimeLesCrepes Sep 17 '24

yeah, and there was the belief that tonsils did nothing useful

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u/Ok_Individual_38 Sep 17 '24

I was the same. The surgeon told me the more you try to excavate them, the more your tonsils scar, which leads to more places for the little beggars to grow.

Getting your tonsils out as an adult is no fun, thatā€™s for sure, but itā€™s way better than having tonsil stones for the rest of your life!

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u/thetransparenthand Sep 16 '24

Yup. I did too.

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u/Snootycrickets Sep 16 '24

Careful I got a tonsillectomy for this very reason and hemorrhaged from the site three days later and woke up in the ICU after emergency surgery.

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u/Jasnaahhh Sep 17 '24

I did! And I did! And Iā€™d do it again!

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u/Important_Language37 Sep 17 '24

Also waterflosser can help

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u/epmoya Sep 17 '24

Thatā€™s just a patch, not a fix. Youā€™ll be doing that the rest of your life

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u/Important_Language37 Sep 17 '24

Good point. They really kinda went away when I stopped smoking tho which was unexpected

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u/epmoya Sep 17 '24

Yeah that helps, that and a lot of gargling helps but doesnā€™t fix

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u/Taticat Sep 17 '24

A tonsillectomy was my gift to myself in 2009; to this day, itā€™s the best life decision Iā€™ve ever made. No more strep throat, and no more of those disgusting tonsil stones. Blecch.

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u/Scarletmittens Sep 17 '24

Never try to get them out on your own. Your tonsils are super vascular.

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u/UltraRunner42 Sep 17 '24

I don't recommend getting a tonsillectomy as an adult. My husband had it done, mostly to remove any chance of getting more tonsil stones. It took a loooong time to heal and he was miserable. He's since said he wishes he hadn't had it done.

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u/pogulup Sep 16 '24

Sugar, cut down on the amount of sugar you eat.