# Are stomach hairballs inevitable when eating facial hair?

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**Created:** [October 27, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-stomach-hairballs-inevitable-when-eating-facial-hair/638997 "2012-10-27T02:03:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-stomach-hairballs-inevitable-when-eating-facial-hair/638997/24 "2012-10-28T03:04:20Z")

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I have never experienced any problem from eating my own facial hair. I don’t eat very much at all (I might also note at this point I also eat my nostril hair when it is long).

But when you read stuff about the problems it causes I wonder if I’m storing up issues for the future. Especially now that I am on a health drive thing. For years I didn’t see doctors abuot anything then suddenly I am now on 5 drugs a day and probably more coming up, not to mention getting a free personal trainer from our evil socialised medicine system ™ and so on. Basically my plan is to be a completely different person physically in two years time, it is ridiculous the state I’ve got myself into.

(I get the personalised trainer for free because I am technically a mental health patient due to having been addicted to drugs)

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