# T...M...fuckin' I! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881 "2003-10-22T11:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/41 "2003-10-24T04:20:44Z")
I’m almost wishing I had these things. I don’t think that was the intended effect of this thread, but they sound fun in a twisted way. As for those people who are running away sick, I can EAT while reading the vilest TMI on this board. Quit being babies! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/42 "2003-10-24T04:21:03Z")
As one who gets these frequently, I found that a simple plastic syringe, of the smaller size with a gentle curving pointed end to it, allows you to wash out the pits in your tonsils, thus avoiding the collection of decaying matter. I habitually rinse out the pits of the tonsils about once a week, and it usually does the job well. The tonsils are directly related to the sinus/allergy drainage, at least that’s what my ENT doctor tells me. ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/43 "2003-10-24T05:01:57Z")
Ahhh, I see. They’re 1920s-style “tonsil stones”. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/44 "2003-10-24T05:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > \*\*_whimpers_ > _mushroom, mushroom_ \*\* aaaaagh, tonsil stone, it’s a fuckin’ tonsil stone… ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/45 "2003-10-24T05:28:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > **I have no gag reflex at all.** And how are yooouuu doing? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/46 "2003-10-24T23:54:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.N. Jones \* > \*\*Mine aren’t very stinky at all unless they get broken up. I like to cough them out, smoosh them between my fingers, and take a deep breath. Really nasty! > \*\* I seriously just did a little victory boogie upon finding out that I’m not the only one who does this. Yeah, I’m gross. I also pick my nose and closely inspect the fruits of my effort - particularly large boogs always bring me an odd sense of joy. Plus I gnaw off and swallow my cuticle skin. My body is a playground! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/47 "2003-10-25T00:17:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scablet \* > \*\*Yeah, I’m gross. I also pick my nose and closely inspect the fruits of my effort - particularly large boogs always bring me an odd sense of joy. \*\* When I’m getting over a bad cold or a sinus infection, I like inspecting the tissue after I blow my nose. It’s amazing that all of those different colors and textures can be produced by one’s nose. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/48 "2003-10-25T01:25:06Z")
So… these tonsoliths… are they sort of yellowish-gray-beige? Kind of an odd mixture of smushy and gritty? I used to huck out tiny blobs of such stuff in my (long-lost) youth. Just wondering… Add me to the ranks of hankie-examiner after a good nose-clearing – I’m a connoisseur of the stages of recovery, as revealed by my snots. Mmmmmmmm… snots! That reminds me – I’m late for supper. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/49 "2003-10-25T02:22:39Z")
I have to be frank. In my nearly three years on this board…this is easily the most disgusting thing I have ever read. It is the first time I have ever literally felt like throwing up after reading a post. Congratulations, **Enola** , you are officially the most disgusting poster on the boards. With the possible exception of **lieu**. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/50 "2003-10-25T02:55:48Z")
Yep, I had 'em. Didn’t know I did, until one evening, my tonsils were itching fit to drive me insane. I gently scratched the right side one and found a little bump - just like a zit. So, I scraped it, and out popped this _chunk_ the size of my pinky fingernail. And it _smeeellllled_! Boy, howdy, that puppy smelled. But my tonsil felt so much better, I couldn’t believe it. The next night I tried again, and got a bunch of little chunks out of the same spot. Never could get the left tonsil to pop like that, and eventually I had both of them removed. My mom, the RN, was so fascinated, she demanded to watch me pop my tonsils. Nothing like a little stage fright to keep a gal from oral hygeine. Of course, she was totally grossed out by what my throat looked like while it as healing from the tonsilectomy. Strange, strange woman. ---
**Author:** ![Tixenfleaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tixenfleaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tixenfleaz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/51 "2003-10-25T05:46:55Z")
Sweet Willy Jesus. Of all the TMI threads I’ve read, this is the TMI’est ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/52 "2003-10-25T07:07:35Z")
> [@](#): > > _by Cervaise_ > What is the hardness and consistency of one of these… objects? > > Could you use it to write a message on the mirror like it’s a grease pencil? Think of a chunk of beige cottage cheese. Actually, leave a curd on the edge of your sink whilst at work. Upon returning home, take a look and a whiff. Now imagine 5 or 6 every few days, extracted somewhat painlessly with a Listerine-d nail file purchased, cleaned and reserved for just this purpose. _Tonsillar exudate_ is mighty nasty. What’s only slightly worse is having a portion of one’s meal stuck in the recently-evacuated tonsil pits. Couscous is especially bad. A peppercorn is tough on a date. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/53 "2003-10-25T12:52:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > \*\*So, are you going to put the video on the internet for us??? \*\* I just emailed it to you- feel free to post it. ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/54 "2003-10-26T18:31:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \* > \*\*I just emailed it to you- feel free to post it. \*\* I wanna see! ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/55 "2004-09-07T05:31:27Z")
Lately, I can’t make my tonsils _give_ anymore. I smell and taste the stones in there, by I get nothin’ but spit outta the holes. This morning I was on the can, taking a shit and cleaning out my ears with a q-tip (yeah, I know, ya ain’t supposed to put 'em in your ear canal…well, ya ain’t supposed to smoke, neither…so shut yer face :wally ) when it hit me… **SWAB OUT THE TONSIL HOLES!!!** I flex the throat and rotate the tonsil, and insert the q-tip in and twist and wipe and… **Hooo-UUUKKK** Sudden, violent gag…and a fossilized stone! I swab the other hole and… HHWAAAAA… (chuncky splatter) I blow Technicolor. 😉 I find no stone there, but, to my delight, I feel a cool breath of air in my throat as my tonsils are truly empty for the first time in years. Like another doper reported, breathing is now sinfully enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/56 "2004-09-07T15:55:06Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Hey! I just realized that it may be within my power to gross out anyone strong-stomached enough to have read this far without feeling queasy, if’n **roadkiller** weren’t the last one. > > I’ve never admitted this to _anyone_, but since **look@hergo!** has added to my vocabulary, I find I have a way of expressing it that (initially) doesn’t sound too bad: > > I have a cryptic penis. :o > > Just one, uh, “crypt,” thank god. It’s about midway down my boy, on the right side, and is like to be “mined” about semi-annually. There’s no offensive odour, I guess because of the relative dryness of the area. Whaddya call the product, in this case-- a penilith? Whatever you call it, it looks for all the world like a flax-seed, only slightly translucent. I hate to think of what it’s composed of. > > Do I win? I recommend tonsillectomy for the most of you… however, **Larry Mudd** I am not sure you would want to prevail yourself of the corresponding remedy for your malady. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/57 "2004-09-07T16:44:17Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > If you cough hard enough, they just fly out on their own, kind of like shotgun pellets 😃 Ah, that would explain those little white things which I cough up from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/58 "2004-09-07T18:20:10Z")
So my tonsils are chronically inflamed due to living in the lovely smog-filled environs of Hell-A - the doctors say I don’t have allergies but have dubbed my condition “rhinitis,” which I suppose is a catch-all phrase for when irritants in the air agitate the nose and throat lining, producing chronic post-nasal drip. And the inflammation regularly prompts the trapping of little food bits in my throat between the folds and pits of swollen tissue. While I swab and rinse regularly (no longer with hydrogen peroxide, throat hygeine is not worth 5 hours of burning dry heaving, thankyouverymuch), I still develop a hefty throat infection at least once a year, but usually twice. My health provider is Kaiser Permanente. While they dutifully dole out amoxicillin every time there is an infection, they seem awfully reluctant to actually _remove_ the problem for good, i.e. tonsillectomy. Look. It’s no fun to feel my swollen throat pushing up against the back of my mouth 24/7. It sucks when I eat popcorn and can’t get that piece of kernel to either come out or go all the way down. And those infections? Yeah, pretty soon I’ll develop an immunity to penicillin and then what? Yet, you Kaiser “care providers” insist that the only way I’ll ever even get a _referral_ to a specialist is if I come in with infections **eight** times in one year, with my throat closed to the point where I can barely breathe. WTF? You want me to be dying before you’ll help me?! So fellow Dopers, please help me out. How can I either 1) pressure Kaiser into performing the tonsillectomy, thus ending my sinus/throat hell, or 2) obtain one somewhere else? I hear they do surgeries in Tijuana… Advice, anecdotes, all TMI welcome. And, my TMI contribution to this thread: The last time I had a bad throat infection, I waited a while before going to the hospital because it was finals and I had no sick leave and blah blah blah. After three weeks, I was beginning to lose my voice, so I forwent fighting at an SCA event when I was able to get a same-day on a cancellation. The doctor took one look down there and said: “Eeeeew. You have pus in your throat.” Me: “_PUS?!?!_ In my _throat_?!?!” Dr: “Yeah, if you had let it go much longer it could have abcessed…” Me: GAG… Yeah. Don’t let those infections go, kiddies. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/59 "2004-09-07T18:37:23Z")
Yeah. I am actually pretty grossed out by this thread, however, this isn’t the most TMI thread ever. [This is.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106449) Especially Broomstick’s saga. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881/60 "2004-09-07T20:18:40Z")
**Enola Straight** , please tell me that you used a new Q-tip for the tonsil cleaning. :eek: BTW, that post had me desperately trying to contain my laughter. Must stop reading SDMB at work… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-m-fuckin-i/208881.md?page=4)