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! 
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.
Ahhh, I see. They’re 1920s-style “tonsil stones”.
Carry on.
aaaaagh, tonsil stone, it’s a fuckin’ tonsil stone…
And how are yooouuu doing? 
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!
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.
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. 
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.
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.
Sweet Willy Jesus.
Of all the TMI threads I’ve read, this is the TMI’est
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.
I just emailed it to you- feel free to post it.
I wanna see!
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.
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:
Ah, that would explain those little white things which I cough up from time to time.
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.
Yeah. I am actually pretty grossed out by this thread, however, this isn’t the most TMI thread ever.
Especially Broomstick’s saga.
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…