I wonder if I’ll get an award for the stupidest question asked in GQ this year.
Background: At age 5 or so, my father took me to the doctor because I had trouble breathing through my nose when I laid down. The doctor looked up my nose and said I had a growth up there that was probably blocking my nose.
For some reason that I do not understand, my father then took me home and nothing more was ever said about it.
The other day, suffering from yet another sinus infection, I looked up my nose in the mirror. I can’t tell if what I’m seeing is an abnormal something or a normal something and, strangely enough, no one I know, including my husband, will let me look up their noses!
And I can’t seem to find a picture online of what a normal nose looks like if a very strange person were to look up it. I was mildly surprised that there wasn’t a fetishist site or something.
Soooo, what should I see if I stand at a mirror, tilt my head back, and look up my nose?
If you can’t see up one side the same as you do the other side, this may be a clue. Basically you should be able to see two black holes beyond where the light lets you see. If not there may be a problem.
This may be considered a thread where you should have given a TMI warning, but hey it didn’t bother me.
This is really ENT doctor territory. To get far enough inside the nasal passages to be able to see anything is fairly delicate territory, and requires speciaized equipment.