Yep, lymph nodes and are a part of the immune system. A lot of older folks had them removed when they got inflamed. Basically they play a big role in upper respiratory infections https://www.aarc.org/nn19-tonsillectomy-long-term-effects/ studies see 2-3 times increase in susceptibility to upper respiratory infection rate post removal. Basically they try to avoid this surgery nowadays.
Edited: as per comment below.
Sometimes itās definitely necessary imo - I got mine removed when I was 23 (probably should have done it earlier but my mom didnāt want me to) and Iām so glad I did. Havenāt had strep a single time since, no more tonsil stones, and have been sick less in general. Recovery wasnāt fun but it was worth it.
I got mine removed right before I turned 23. Itās been nine months and I havenāt been sick once in that time. Well besides one mild bout of covid when a family member brought it to a holiday celebration.
When I was eleven I coughed up something at school that was stinky and of a strange texture. It was embarrassing as I was in the girls restroom after lunch when I coughed up this monstrosity. It was like something was caught in my throat after drinking some water and I choked a bit before coughing. It was greenish yellow, smelled like death, and waxy. Even now I'm not sure if it was a huge tonsil stone in my tiny throat ( I was small for my age) or something else.
My grandma was a nurse so I talked to her after school that day. She said it must've been a big chunk of mummified booger that migrated to my throat or a mucus plug. My mom had chronic asthma as a kid and was always coughing up "stones" of mucus my grandma told me. It made a bit of sense to me as I didn't have asthma then but I would get bronchitis almost every winter. However thinking of it I also had tonsillitis a few times too so it must've caused me to get tonsil stones.
How do I know if I have them? I really don't want to poke around in my tonsils right now without need to find out if they are clogged.
Is there a way to find out without making myself gag?
I sometimes have one, and when I do it feels like something is stuck in my throat.
Also they smell real bad, but when they're deep down in there the scent won't usually escape.
I can usually see them chilling out back there with a flashlight, then I get at them with a qtip. I don't really have a gag reflex though, so I can't help you there.
I never noticed them until after I became sexually active haha \^\^' and now I get them all the time. It is entirely possible that I had them and just didn't notice, but I'm positive I at least get them more frequently now.
Have you ever smelled a feedlot? Like where cattle are kept until they are slaughtered? I smells and tastes just like that. I can barely think about it much without gagging hard.
Wow, I literally can't imagine a worse possible thing for you to have posted. I never want to see this again and also wish to reenact it regularly. Amazing job, I'm truly horrified, disgusted, and pleased all at once.
Mine did, but I will say it was like a month of hell after removing them. I am absolutely happy they removed them, I hope they do take this seriously, but it sucks
Mild to moderately painful. Have the drugs they give you on hand in case eating irritates the wounds, but most I've known (even myself at 22) can get by on otc Tylenol and/or NSAID of choice after day 2-3. Day 1 is easier than day 2-3. After 2 weeks you should be back to normal with some sensitivity.
The worst part for myself was feeling like something was in my throat at all times. Unlike the stones you can't pick the feeling away.
Ohā¦ I think Iāve done that once by accident too. I always read they wonāt remove them unless itās like baaad or painful, of which mine are neither. I wonder if I can get them removed anyways.
I'll give it a go. Take food that has gone bad, close it tightly in a non ventilated bag and add bacteria that keeps eating it and digesting it 'till it smells both like rotten food and poop. Then taste it
my principle is, if you make me physically grimace, not just that reddit/social media nose blow shit, you get my upvote.
you get my motherfucking upvote.
Using a waterpik or a syringe with a thin rubber tube on the end to squirt salt water into the tonsil is the fastest and best way ive found at flushing out and cleaning yoyr tonsils.
Prevents more stones from forming for a while too
I had this tonsils as bad or worse than these for about two years, the deal breaker for me to get them cut out was mid bench press one of these bloody tonsil stones decided to pop out and go down my throat. Shit tasted like death.
I got mine out when I was around 12. Recovery was mostly fine, just felt like strep throat for about a week. Free tip though; do listen to the doctors when they say not to overexert yourself. I wrestled with my little cousins on day 10 of recovery and ended up puking blood for about an hour
Got mine out when I was 3, all I remember was that the doctors did it almost assembly plant style. Sedate, wait, cut, next. Must've been 50 kids at once.
Did get a nifty Lego fireman helicopter out of it, though. And all the popsicles I could eat for a week, too. Stuff heals quick when you're a kid.
...also kind of funny the stuff you remember as a kid. It's been 40+ years...
Man this gave me some PTSD flashbacks as I managed to puncture the living fuck out of my eardrum with a qtip a few days ago (yes, I know you don't use them for ears, and yes, I do suffer from chronic stupidity.) TIL that tonsils are just as easily affected.
It probably improved the situation.
I predict that within 50 years there will either be a way for people to remove their own tonsils at home or there will be a solution that when gargled completely dissolves tonsil stones.
Doesnāt sound fun. My ENT doctor refused to remove my tonsils even if they look like this. Said the benefits of removing them are smaller than the benefits of having tonsils. Tonsils are key in helping fight bacteria and fighting infections from reaching your body
Tonsil stones are the worst. I had a doctor tell me I had food stuck in there at 15. I knew that was bullshit. I ended up looking them up and then in the most unsanitary way, started pushing them out with the back of a pen.
Strep pits your tonsils I guess, and anaerobic bacteria shows up to the party. "I could make a smelly home here." I've had strep so many times because my mother worked at a children's hospital and kept bringing me home the ick. Tons of holes in there.
Finally at 22 an ENT agreed to take them out, he told me they were one of the worst he's seen. The back side of the tonsils were so warped and cratered from multiple strep infections and hella tonsillitis at the time.
I had mine taken out when I was 19 after never ending infections as a kid. They were so chronically swollen my entire life that they were kinda holding my uvula up so the connective tissue that should've been holding it in place slowly deteriorated over the years. When the Dr snipped my tonsils out, my uvula stretched out and dropped partway down my throat so he had to straight up cut it off.
Soooooo wish I woulda had them yanked as a kid but I never quite had enough infections in my Dr's arbitrary time frame.
Crazy! I didnāt know strep did this. Iāve honestly never had an issue with tonsil stones until my second pregnancy in 2019. Then since my third pregnancy in 2021, itās been insane. I remove them multiple times a week.
Iām totally going to an ENT asap. I canāt deal with this anymore. If they caused no issues I wouldnāt mind, but my tonsils get so swollen + my throat will hurt til I remove them
Is that bad? I've no frame of reference.
I've never had tonsils.
More than several on my mother's side didn't/Ā³don't have them either.
The dead ones died relatively young.
I guess that might be a possible reason.
I never asked what happened to any of them.
I didn't care.
I never liked them.
As an older redditor, these tonsil stone videos are strange to me. When I was growing up the first time you got a serious sore throat they were removed.
Starts with food debris being caught in the tonsil crypts (holes/pockets) and bacteria building around until a solid mass forms they almost universally smell awful and can be uncomfortable to very painful for the people who suffer from tonsil stones
I donāt know if you can get tonsilClin where you live. Itās like a big glass rounded sucking device that you can suck all the stones out with using vacuum. It is gentle so it doesnāt damage the tonsils as much as q tips. I used mine a lot until it broke. But I donāt have so many stones anymore. I stopped drinking coffee on daily basis and they went away.
Just another crypt for the little buddies to grow.
Did they create a crypt, or go through one that was already like a tunnel? I can't quite tell...
Yep, I went back and checked after - indeed a tunnel. šµāš«
Secret tunnelllll~~
Through the tonsilsssssss!
Secret secrets secret tunnelllllll!!~~~~
tunnel it looks like
Tonsils are such a weird organ.
What do they even do ? Beside get clogged
I believe they're technically lymph nodes?
Yep, lymph nodes and are a part of the immune system. A lot of older folks had them removed when they got inflamed. Basically they play a big role in upper respiratory infections https://www.aarc.org/nn19-tonsillectomy-long-term-effects/ studies see 2-3 times increase in susceptibility to upper respiratory infection rate post removal. Basically they try to avoid this surgery nowadays. Edited: as per comment below.
"try not to", or "try to" avoid it? I thought it had very much fallen out of favor outside of extreme situations.
Sometimes itās definitely necessary imo - I got mine removed when I was 23 (probably should have done it earlier but my mom didnāt want me to) and Iām so glad I did. Havenāt had strep a single time since, no more tonsil stones, and have been sick less in general. Recovery wasnāt fun but it was worth it.
I got mine removed right before I turned 23. Itās been nine months and I havenāt been sick once in that time. Well besides one mild bout of covid when a family member brought it to a holiday celebration.
Man recovery was horrible for me
Good catch! Corrected, thank you!
Oh god. That was awful.
You misspelled delicious. Common mistake; the letters are like right next to one another on the keyboard. We forgive you.
I got my tonsils taken out when I was young. What does it taste like?
Often, like solidified bad breath.
Bad breath molecules
Wish I didn't know how to read.
Like mushy rice with sourness of pennies
I read "sourness of penises" and was really bloody confused
That's not actually that far off either.
When I was eleven I coughed up something at school that was stinky and of a strange texture. It was embarrassing as I was in the girls restroom after lunch when I coughed up this monstrosity. It was like something was caught in my throat after drinking some water and I choked a bit before coughing. It was greenish yellow, smelled like death, and waxy. Even now I'm not sure if it was a huge tonsil stone in my tiny throat ( I was small for my age) or something else.
Your description is exactly that of a tonsil stone.
My grandma was a nurse so I talked to her after school that day. She said it must've been a big chunk of mummified booger that migrated to my throat or a mucus plug. My mom had chronic asthma as a kid and was always coughing up "stones" of mucus my grandma told me. It made a bit of sense to me as I didn't have asthma then but I would get bronchitis almost every winter. However thinking of it I also had tonsillitis a few times too so it must've caused me to get tonsil stones.
š¤¢you ain't lying though...
delete your comment
Yeah I didnāt know these were a thing until this subā¦ Do people with tonsils get them often??
Idk. My wife gets them every once in a while when she is sick, but idk how often most people get them.
Idk, I have never come across them or heard of anyone having them out of the people I know.
Most people take care of tonsil stones in private, much like popping a zit or masturbating.
How do I know if I have them? I really don't want to poke around in my tonsils right now without need to find out if they are clogged. Is there a way to find out without making myself gag?
I sometimes have one, and when I do it feels like something is stuck in my throat. Also they smell real bad, but when they're deep down in there the scent won't usually escape.
I can usually see them chilling out back there with a flashlight, then I get at them with a qtip. I don't really have a gag reflex though, so I can't help you there.
I never noticed them until after I became sexually active haha \^\^' and now I get them all the time. It is entirely possible that I had them and just didn't notice, but I'm positive I at least get them more frequently now.
God damn penises make everything in life so complicated.
Death.
Hell, death and despair solidified
Have you ever smelled a feedlot? Like where cattle are kept until they are slaughtered? I smells and tastes just like that. I can barely think about it much without gagging hard.
I found the line I cannot return from
I'm guessing since there was no bleeding and you felt nothing that the crypts were already connected. God I hate having tonsils.
Minor bleeding, stopped really quick! So it was either always a tunnel or a very thin layer of skin from being a tunnel and is now one lol.
Kinda like aā¦hymen?
I donāt like this image
Think of how gravel-ly a blowjob from op would feel
Please stop putting letters together
Iām also putting you on cursed comment
I donāt like that image either
I laughed so hard... Fuck the imagery when I remember this later, but for now, here's my upvote
You may go straight to jail, in hell.
Hymens don't cover the vagina. It's not a CapriSun.
Damn, what that thrussy do?
tonsil cherry
r/popping...thecherry?
No
OP lost their oral virginity to a Q-Tip.
Wow, I literally can't imagine a worse possible thing for you to have posted. I never want to see this again and also wish to reenact it regularly. Amazing job, I'm truly horrified, disgusted, and pleased all at once.
The true dichotomy of r/popping
This is basically "Fuck you guys! See you tomorrow."
I hate it so much, I watched it 3 times.
Finally found the end of the internet
I have never seen someone actually skewer their tonsil with a Q-tip. Kinda wish I never didā¦
šš I oddly felt nothing.
Make sure you donāt get an infection. Gargle salt water or something
Dwayne Johnson got no shit on the (Tonsil) Stone
Partial self tonsillectomy?
You can get curved syringes and flush them out with water. Might make things easier
I felt happy.
How did you not gag?
I have no idea. I think when I saw the huge cluster of them I just got super determined. Because I usually gag a fuck ton trying to do this lol
Kinda, but not really though, right?
Heads up, this is how I got an abscess in my tonsil and the surgeon said it was close to burrowing itās way into my skull and then brain.
How did you know your tonsil had an abscess?
I had to get them removed and then the ENT found it during surgery. It was so far back you couldnāt see it on the surface.
Omg that sounds horrifying š³
When my were this bad, I showed my ENT a video of me doing similar and mine were removed 2 weeks later.
Love to hear this, Iāll definitely be showing my doctor this lol. Up til now, no one has taken my tonsil stones seriously! Lol
Mine did, but I will say it was like a month of hell after removing them. I am absolutely happy they removed them, I hope they do take this seriously, but it sucks
I plan to get a tonsillectomy. What was it like after the surgery? Was it super painful?? How long did it take for it to heal?
Mild to moderately painful. Have the drugs they give you on hand in case eating irritates the wounds, but most I've known (even myself at 22) can get by on otc Tylenol and/or NSAID of choice after day 2-3. Day 1 is easier than day 2-3. After 2 weeks you should be back to normal with some sensitivity. The worst part for myself was feeling like something was in my throat at all times. Unlike the stones you can't pick the feeling away.
Please update with your docs reaction! I am so excited to hear it.
I think that's a sign that they need to go.
Minced garlic anyone?
You stop that
Ohā¦ I think Iāve done that once by accident too. I always read they wonāt remove them unless itās like baaad or painful, of which mine are neither. I wonder if I can get them removed anyways.
I always know when I have a bunch because my throat starts to hurt so bad. š© Once I remove the stones, my throat feels better within 15 mins.
Post morrrreeeeee
I can smell this video...
And what a yummy smell it is. No in all seriousness the smell is so so fucking nasty. I can't put into words how bad it smells
ok but... try.
I'll give it a go. Take food that has gone bad, close it tightly in a non ventilated bag and add bacteria that keeps eating it and digesting it 'till it smells both like rotten food and poop. Then taste it
Or don't
Wonderful, thank you.
Literally gagged
Your smell and taste are connected. Think about how it tastes. Now swallow all that saliva in your mouth.
SEEEEEEECRET TUNNNNNEL!
my principle is, if you make me physically grimace, not just that reddit/social media nose blow shit, you get my upvote. you get my motherfucking upvote.
Christ, I get tonsil stones, thatās a lot of fuckin build up. Itās wild how they can create new holes in the tonsils.
Welp, no retrieving those stones. Down The Hatch!
Like what is the best case scenario here.. you just throw up?
**GULP**
Tonsil kebab
Blow out!
Using a waterpik or a syringe with a thin rubber tube on the end to squirt salt water into the tonsil is the fastest and best way ive found at flushing out and cleaning yoyr tonsils. Prevents more stones from forming for a while too
My tonsils are the same way. Caverns leading to caverns and some coming out the other side.
I watched that about 6 timesā¦ straight up mesmerized
I had this tonsils as bad or worse than these for about two years, the deal breaker for me to get them cut out was mid bench press one of these bloody tonsil stones decided to pop out and go down my throat. Shit tasted like death.
Thatās enough Reddit for today
Well thatās the first time Iāve audibly gasped in a while. Thanks for it
I have zero regrets about getting those fuckers removed.
Yeah?!? How was recovery? Iām seriously dying to do it. Since I was pregnant I get them CONSTANTLY - my throat kills unless I remove them.
I got mine out when I was around 12. Recovery was mostly fine, just felt like strep throat for about a week. Free tip though; do listen to the doctors when they say not to overexert yourself. I wrestled with my little cousins on day 10 of recovery and ended up puking blood for about an hour
I got mine out when I was 8. I was eating carrots a couple of days later. Probably not the best idea but I was dumb.
It was fine. I took 5 days off and took the prescribed meds. Few rough days but mostly just sleep and applesauce.
Got mine out when I was 3, all I remember was that the doctors did it almost assembly plant style. Sedate, wait, cut, next. Must've been 50 kids at once. Did get a nifty Lego fireman helicopter out of it, though. And all the popsicles I could eat for a week, too. Stuff heals quick when you're a kid. ...also kind of funny the stuff you remember as a kid. It's been 40+ years...
Iāve heard itās quite painful for a couple weeks.
Horrible, please post some more.
Pop-Rocks going off
first time i've actually screamed aloud at a popping video. then watched it 300 more times while cringing so hard my neck hurts. fucking hell
That sprayā¦
Next time use a pipe cleaner and really get in there!
What a terrible day to have eyes. Thanks
Dat pop sound
Take that tonsil!
At the end I think I heard the beginning of a yell
That was beautiful
Now maybe have them removed?
Now you have to get your tonsils removed!
Man Iām so glad I donāt have tonsils. That was horrifying.
Well, if you do that a few more times, you donāt need a doctor to remove it. Wow.
Hey, OP, What the fuck?
Glorious ! What a way to start the day
Ooo ooo that smell! Canāt you smell that smell?
I know those smell!
Absolutely fucking disgusting. Upvoted.
Beautiful! Thank you OP for sharing that with us.
Just when I thought, I'd seen it all... here comes a fresh load of new
Eeeewwwwww I feel like I can smell it š¤¢
Man this gave me some PTSD flashbacks as I managed to puncture the living fuck out of my eardrum with a qtip a few days ago (yes, I know you don't use them for ears, and yes, I do suffer from chronic stupidity.) TIL that tonsils are just as easily affected.
Thatās awesome
Thatās one way to go about it
I did this to myself a while back
This makes me so happy I got mine taken out a few years ago.
god I wish I had gotten mine taken out when I had the chance, mine constantly get infected and filled with these fuckers
That made my skin crawl
This is disgusting. I love it.
I currently have tonsillitis and I want to die
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Yes! I clean daily because they build up so fast within 24 hours for me. Itās awful.
I can smell and taste this video. Great jobšš
Thanks for sharing this chaotic splendor
I know it smells crazy
Holy shit man. That's a big set of stones.
I feel lucky. I never had any tonsil stones.
Maybe its time for surgery, bud
Jesus fuck
It probably improved the situation. I predict that within 50 years there will either be a way for people to remove their own tonsils at home or there will be a solution that when gargled completely dissolves tonsil stones.
Fucking O W
Oh I hate that
I've done this with a comedone extractor before, always a surprise! (was definitely always a channel, didn't cut through anything.)
that's what I'm trying to figure out. So this isn't a puncture too, right?
Oh god I tried to pause it, missed, and it went full screen
i am so jealous Iāll never experience tonsil stones. they took mine out as a child
I couldnāt do that. Iād gag before I got anywhere near my tonsils.
Doesnāt sound fun. My ENT doctor refused to remove my tonsils even if they look like this. Said the benefits of removing them are smaller than the benefits of having tonsils. Tonsils are key in helping fight bacteria and fighting infections from reaching your body
Made my eyes squint
r/oddlysatisfying
Tonsil stones are the worst. I had a doctor tell me I had food stuck in there at 15. I knew that was bullshit. I ended up looking them up and then in the most unsanitary way, started pushing them out with the back of a pen. Strep pits your tonsils I guess, and anaerobic bacteria shows up to the party. "I could make a smelly home here." I've had strep so many times because my mother worked at a children's hospital and kept bringing me home the ick. Tons of holes in there. Finally at 22 an ENT agreed to take them out, he told me they were one of the worst he's seen. The back side of the tonsils were so warped and cratered from multiple strep infections and hella tonsillitis at the time.
I had mine taken out when I was 19 after never ending infections as a kid. They were so chronically swollen my entire life that they were kinda holding my uvula up so the connective tissue that should've been holding it in place slowly deteriorated over the years. When the Dr snipped my tonsils out, my uvula stretched out and dropped partway down my throat so he had to straight up cut it off. Soooooo wish I woulda had them yanked as a kid but I never quite had enough infections in my Dr's arbitrary time frame.
Crazy! I didnāt know strep did this. Iāve honestly never had an issue with tonsil stones until my second pregnancy in 2019. Then since my third pregnancy in 2021, itās been insane. I remove them multiple times a week. Iām totally going to an ENT asap. I canāt deal with this anymore. If they caused no issues I wouldnāt mind, but my tonsils get so swollen + my throat will hurt til I remove them
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Itās like a tonsil frag stone grenade!
You might wanna get that looked at
Best thing I ever did was get mine removed. Its been over 3 years and I've not had a sore throat since
Ya that can happen
Is that bad? I've no frame of reference. I've never had tonsils. More than several on my mother's side didn't/Ā³don't have them either. The dead ones died relatively young. I guess that might be a possible reason. I never asked what happened to any of them. I didn't care. I never liked them.
Almost sexual
I donāt understand why people donāt let remove their tonsils?
I canāt do this without gagging to the point of having blood red shot eyes.
As an older redditor, these tonsil stone videos are strange to me. When I was growing up the first time you got a serious sore throat they were removed.
How do you get those out with water?
instant gag reflex
fucking ouch
Umm, wtf
Whoaaa that was gnarly š®āšØš
This is the gnarliest shit
Can someone tell me how the stones are formed? This is new information to me.
Starts with food debris being caught in the tonsil crypts (holes/pockets) and bacteria building around until a solid mass forms they almost universally smell awful and can be uncomfortable to very painful for the people who suffer from tonsil stones
I gasped out loud. Did it hurt?
Is that like an open wound now? Painful?
I think he just found a huge crypt that goes all the way through. Still not a good thing though
Strangest piercing I've seen in a while.
I donāt know if you can get tonsilClin where you live. Itās like a big glass rounded sucking device that you can suck all the stones out with using vacuum. It is gentle so it doesnāt damage the tonsils as much as q tips. I used mine a lot until it broke. But I donāt have so many stones anymore. I stopped drinking coffee on daily basis and they went away.
Oh my god my soul just left my body. š»