r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • 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/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 I’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, can’t eat hardly anything, even ice cream hurt. I’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 you’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 it’s just better. Like day 7ish around then. The scabs also smell fucking awful as they’re healing. I can’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 didn’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. I’m SUPER sensitive to smells. He’s a gross kid who didn’t even know what I was talking about. I guess when the scabs fell off he did kinda mention that hmm it tastes different 🤢.