Is there something in my nose?

Ever feel like you have something in a nostril up into the “bone” part (where your finger can’t reach)?

Am I really asking this? Yes sparky!, you are.

Anyway, I have been blowing and blowing this morning, to the point I’m surprised I haven’t busted a few capillaries in my face. I even tried a wet q-tip poking around up there.

Something is up there (I think)!

A swim in the ocean would be nice right now. Mmmm… salt water.

Probably irritated and swollen tissue up there that’s making your nose feel completely blocked. (You can get air through there when you blow your nose, right?) Blowing it hard and forcing a q-tip up there is probably just making it worse.

Might try an eyedropper with some salt water to help things constrict back to normal. Or a neti pot. But it’ll probably clear up on its own pretty quickly.

IANAD.

I can actually breathe fine through it. It feels like there’s a stray hair up there (or I imagine that’s what it would feel like if a stray hair was up there).

It’s actually super annoying now that I’ve been thinking about it.

:mad:

Just pray that it doesn’t start moving – unless it already has! :eek:

Like a cave spider laying babies to feast on my brain?

(and don’t google image search ‘cave spider’ :eek:)

Gah!

DO NOT google image search cave spider bite!!!1!

It might be something along the lines of vasomotor rhinitis. I get a run of that a couple times a year. Feels like there’s something crawling around and itching up there, and rinsing with a neti doesn’t help. Benadryl helps make it tolerable. AFAIK, it’s harmless but annoying and should go away on its own in a couple of days.

:dubious:
Hey, sparky! do you cut up your food before eating it like the classy ones do?

We probably can’t answer the question without knowing where your nose has been. :wink:

Perhaps you have fungus concretions
http://www.popthatzit.com/?s=fungus

or even miyasis

WARNING! MAGGOTS CRAWLING AROUND UP THERE! :eek:
http://www.popthatzit.com/?s=nose+miyasis

Rubber hose?

Could be a leech. Has your nose been to South East Asia?

I once knew a guy, who knew a guy, whose coworker’s sister’s kid stuck a whole bagel up his nose! With lox and cream cheese! Maybe you’ve got that.

It could just be dryness from dry indoor heated air. Little vaseline on a q-tip. Swish around inside nostril.

You think there’s something in there, but there’snot.

Dunno what’s up your nose, but whenever I see this thread title, my brain sings, “Please please tell me now - is there something in my nose?”

Earworm. I hate you.

Try blowing your nose in the shower.

Could be a nasal polyp. Normally they’re harmless but sometimes they turn into nose cancer and then you die.

Could be a snot clot! (I’m sure there’s an official medical term.) I get these a lot after sinus infections…mucus will build up and semi-solidify, until one day (often in the shower) it pops out.

…but wipe the goo off the tiles after, will ya? You’re not the only one who has to use that shower. :dubious: