You know the one that hangs down in the back of your throat?
Yeah, mine hurts… and i don’t know why…damn it.
It’ll have to come out.
But i like my Dangly thing, i don’t want someone to cut it off!
Hey - you wrote that you had a problem with your Dangly Thing, and I gave you my professional assessment (as a potter and photo retoucher) and you are going to DISAGREE WITH ME?!?!??
The nerve.
Uvula. That’s the dangly thing. Call it by its rightful name, dangit!
sprained uvula?
talk less, type more.
I thought it was called an epiglotis?.. but “My epiglotis hurts” as a title wouldn’t get too many interested… u sick, sick people…
Two T’s. Epiglottis. And you can’t see that, it’s like…I think it’s the thing that keeps you from getting food in your windpipe. But it definitely ain’t the uvula…
Actually, your epiglottis is the flap of tissue that closes off your windpipe while you are eating or swallowing. You can’t see your epiglottis just by opening your mouth, it’s too far down into your throat. The dangly thing, as you so delicately put it, is the uvula. It can get infected, much the same way that your tonsils can get infected. It’s just not as common. My only suggestion would be to go see and doctor and get a strep throat swab done. Do you have bad seasonal allergies? My medical book says that allergies can cause it too. Do you have bad seasonal allergies?
I stand corrected, my uvula hurts.
i don’t have any allergies, but i have been sick for the past 3 weeks, that could have some thing to do with it maybe?
How strange…I was just having a conversation with my nine-year-old son about uvulas (what’s the plural for uvula 
) in the car about an hour ago.
He had asked me what the cute little depression between the nose and the upper lip was called; IIRC, it’s called a philtrum. I wasn’t 100% sure though, so I brought up uvula, knowing that it would appeal to my kid to know this sort of thing.
Bathe your dangly thing in hot liquids and honey. Hope you feel better soon.
Things could be worse.
Your other dangly thing could be hurting. :eek:
Tabathina,
No, you are completely and totally in the right. Your philtrum is the little divot betweeen your nose and your lips. Cute, ain’t it?
Anyway, uvula is almost a dirty anagram. so I won’t go any further. But remember, the devil is a gooof, and can strike in any which way but loose!?!
It sounds like it is time for the rose pruning shears. Out bad and painful uvula!
Wump, do you think you could have strep? Might be a good idea to get it checked out. Strep is nothing to mess with.
Anyone know what the uvula is actually for? Aside from helping you escape the bellies of whales in old computer games.
Cumber - I think it’s there to entertain the tonsils. They play tetherball with it.
And Wump - if you don’t stop picking at it, it will never heal!
It behooves ya to take care of your uvula.
Uvulae.
That is all.
I was gonna say that myself, but I didn’t think anyone would know what I was talking about.