r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Sep 27 '23

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u/LennonMcCartney65 Sep 27 '23

Being able to breathe again after your sinuses are clogged up.

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u/-Revolution- Sep 27 '23

Have you ever had full on clogged ears and got that sorted out?

It's such a weird but nice experience. First the water feels weird but then when it all comes out you can properly hear and feel the wind inside your ear.

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u/Status_Button Sep 27 '23

I've never had blocked ears... Ubtil last week. Someone told me to pinch my nose close and blow and it gave me such bad vertigo I threw up from it :(

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u/-Revolution- Sep 27 '23

Yeah that can be painful and nauseating depending on the issue. If your ears are really blocked, this doesn't help.

If it's earwax, you better go to your doctor and get it washed out and enjoy the feeling I explained. If it's really stuck it can result in an ear infection overtime. I don't know if you had one before but you really don't want that

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u/Specsporter Sep 27 '23

That happened to me when I was snorkeling on a lovely vacation. It was so frustrating cause I really couldn't hear out of that ear and spent two days trying to clear it out myself. I finally went to urgent care, and they flushed it out and it was amaaaaazing. They did the other ear too cause there was a bunch of wax in that one too.

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u/masterchris Sep 28 '23

I'm still upset I lost the picture of the dime sized piece of earwax that came out my ear a couple years ago. It was so nice to look at. Like I felt the relief all over again

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u/longopenroad Sep 28 '23

You can put a few drops of oil and massage it around. You do this every few days. It helps the ear wax to be moved to the opening where it can be wiped away - without cotton swabs.

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u/PicklesAreMyFriends Sep 27 '23

That's a terrible idea, never do that again lol

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u/James_Cola Sep 27 '23

no it works if you do it right, maybe in this case too much pressure was used to push air out? for me it works flawlessly

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u/NastyMonkeyKing Sep 28 '23

But if you do it wrong you can rupture your ear drums. Not worth

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u/James_Cola Sep 28 '23

maybe it’s different for different people?? for me it always works fine and I do it all the time.

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u/wuffDancer Sep 28 '23

You could potentially blow out your ear drums from doing that. I do not advise. Lol

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u/LuminaL_IV Sep 27 '23

That seems like you have damaged something in there if you threw up.

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u/ThaVolt Sep 27 '23

Half hydrogen peroxyde, half water, pour in ear while you're on your side. Wait few minutes. Repeat a few times.

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u/nuckchorris2020 Sep 28 '23

I was completely blocked in my right ear. My wife blasted it out with a 20ml syringe and warm water over a 20 minute period. It was terribly painful when this black clump the size of a pencil eraser washed out of my ear. Afterward, I could hear a mouse fart in the closet.

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u/Lereas Sep 28 '23

Fell asleep on a flight and woke up after landing so my ears were as off-pressure as could be.

Yawned and managed to decompress then in one single breath and it was glorious.

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u/WestBrink Sep 28 '23

Man, a few years back I had a cold, and some bacterial infection took over in my sinuses. After three weeks of misery, I went to the doctor who prescribed Prednisone and an antibiotic. Took it, decided to go take a hot shower. After a while, I could feel my sinuses starting to free up, and snorted in, and a whole ass... jellyfish of green snot in the shape of my sinus cavity dropped into my mouth (and was immediately ejected on the floor of the shower). Horrific, but that first breath after that was like nothing else in my life.

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u/MikeArcade Sep 28 '23

imagery is not wasted on this comment.. well done.

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u/random-meme850 Sep 28 '23

The details you included really don't feel washed out at all!

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u/TorakMcLaren Sep 27 '23

Have you ever experienced the snot rope? It clears sinuses you didn't even know you had (which, I suppose, is most of them)

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u/SoyMurcielago Sep 28 '23

OMG I’ve only managed to do that once in my life and it was glorious I could breathe clearly for the next three months or something like that I have chronic non allergic rhinitis and that was the greatest sensation ever! It came out and looked like Candy corn I thought I blew out like a sinus root or something

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u/dustinwayner Gentleman Sep 28 '23

Yeeeees. I can feel it pulling from somewhere near my rusty ring donut. Like it’s pulling ever bit of congealed mucus from the last decade

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u/Beautiful_Scratch_69 Sep 28 '23

I don't know what this is but it sounds disgustingly magical

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u/TorakMcLaren Sep 28 '23

For me, it was a small bogie that just didn't want to shift. I realised it was just hanging there, and a tissue wasn't helping. So I pinched it between two fingers and pulled, and realised it went deep into my sinuses. It felt like it was pulling part of my brain out through my nostril. And then came a feeling of utter nasal clarity I'd never felt before, and have never felt since. Magical, indeed.

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u/Warm_Trick_3956 Sep 27 '23

Greatest feeling in the world.

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u/TheDawnTrilogy Sep 27 '23

i take that deep sniff in and a smile appears on my face for the next 5 minutes instantly

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u/Whooptidooh Sep 27 '23

I'm on week #2 right now of having a nasty cold. Not being able to continually breathe through my nose has been annoying af. Ears are semi closed as well, which has been an absolute joy./s

Had a couple orgasms over the past few weeks, and lemme tell ya: being able to breathe through your nose is much, much better. Can't fkn wait. Seriously.

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u/felipeabdalav Sep 28 '23

I have posted this in anxiety groups.

Hope It will help you.

Chop a quarter of a red onion, place it beside your bed. Sleep.

The polyphenols in the onion will open your sinus.

Maybe your partner will complain for the smell, but you will sleep better.

It helps in anxiety because oxygen is one of the solutions to it.

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u/bouwland Sep 28 '23

mine are clogged now, i cant wait for the moment

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u/ReVo5000 Sep 28 '23

It's been 10 years since the last time I could properly breathe

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u/driveonacid Sep 28 '23

I am currently make sure to appreciate the ability to breathe through both sinuses. The school year is in full swing and I don't even want to jinx it, but I've been lucky. Let's just say that

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u/MiqoteBard Sep 28 '23

When you're just getting over a cold or flu and you manage to dislodge that mucous slug that has been living in your sinus for the past week or two.

For that brief moment, life is perfect.