I hesitated – briefly – to share this and I don’t know why, considering that entire thread we had about squeezing zits and the numerous ones dedicated to bowel movements. Anyway, here goes:
I’ve had sinus surgery twice. The second time wouldn’t have happened if the first surgeon had done what he was supposed to do. It’s called “follow-up,” Doctor Jackass! Anyway, ever since healing from the second surgery (four years ago) I have a strange weekly occurrence: Out of my right nostril I blow what can only be described as a plug. It’s green, waxy in consistency and about the size of the head of a thumbtack. I know that it’s about to come out when I feel a little resistance in the back of my nostril. A few squirts of saline and moments later, there she blows. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk The second sinus doctor says that as long as it keeps coming out, I’m fine.
Gross, huh?
<singing>Gettin’ back, on the track, with my little green plug…</singing>
Oh, man. I just remembered that I’m going to meet a bunch of Dopers face-to-face for the first time on Friday. Tell ya what, NurseCarmen et al.: I won’t bring this thread up if you don’t. Deal? We’ll all enjoy our meals and digest them as normal if we adhere to this pledge.
Uh-oh. Was this a submucous resection, also called an SMR-Fess? I went through the same thing. The plugs will fly out your face for at least a year. Especially in the shower.
Hey MercyStreet. Are you asking if “submucus resection” was the name of the procedure I underwent?
I’ve never heard that term, so I doubt it. All she ever called it was endoscopic surgery. I had a giant mucocele in my right maxillary sinus; she had to go in, pierce it and remove the gunk (that’s a medical term). I’m lucky; the original plan was to have a second surgeon access my superior turbinate from the outside (woulda left a nice scar on the side of my nose) and get any remaining gunk. She got it all in the first pass.
Anyway, ever since, the problem with green plugs. And it’s been four years.
Apologies to lno for the misspelling. Thanks for setting the record straight, Gazelle from Hell.
Did the surgery relieve your sinus troubles? Mine did, for the most part. (Except that if I blow my nose hard enough, air shoots out the corner of my eye. )
there is something, something, (there is a french phrase) about this board. where else would you get a bunch of people questioning the scientific makeup of a green plug!!!
fossilized snot… does it get any better?
my theory, gazelle, is that the little green plug is… a… are ya ready…?
Oh! Oh!..I had something like that, but mine always show up after a bad sinus infection/allergy seasonal attack. My sinuses are really dry, but stuffed up way up inside…lots of medicine to artificially dry them out…and in a week or so…:snOOORk!: out comes something vaguely reminiscent of a flourescent orange dried pea.
You’re right, too. It smells like ass.
I’m always somewhat reminded of that scene in Total Recall where Arnold pulls the transmitter out of his nose
