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>>14343225
I had this once, was fucking awful, nastiest illness I’ve ever had

>>14343241
how the fuck did you get rid of it

Dude how are stones real like hahaha nigga just close your eyes and walk away

>>14343242
u just poke em out. my tonsils are kinda fucked and so i get these now and again. pretty manageable desu

>>14343242
I got them when I had the flu and got some other infection on top of it. I was gagging a lot because it tasted and smelled fucking awful, was able to cough up one in the shower after a lot of dry-heaving. The second I swallowed in my sleep, it broke off somehow.

>>14343287
if at some point you have one that sticks out, there are like 4 other stuck in there. it's like a clown car

>>14343225
I had strep really bad as a child which created pockets in my tonsils. Now as an adult, I get these tonsil stones pretty frequently. The ENT doctor told me the stones are the results of food lodging in your tonsils and calcifying, which creates the putrid smell and halitosis.

I bought a water pick that you'd usually use for flossing your teeth, but instead I used it to flush these things out. Way better than using a finger or a toothbrush because you don't hit your gag reflex near as much.

The feeling is pretty great. Dislodging a massive stone like in pic related is such a relief since you can feel the stone when you swallow before you remove it.

The stone itself is not hard. It’s actually semi-squishy. A little pit of pressure and the stone crumbles, sort of like feta cheese. The smell is the worst thing you can imagine. Worse than anything you can think of. If the smell wasn’t concentrated to the small stone and happened to be 20-30 times larger, it would effectively gas an enclosed room full of a few hundred people. Zero Nazi innuendos intended.

I had a chronic condition so that I got these every day on both sides. It would be waaaay more than that. It took hours to push them out of my throat.

>>14343426
Horrifying roller coaster ride of a post, thank you.

>>14343426
Are these a precursor to throat cancer? Or just benign? I mean it sounds like there's holes in your throat.

>>14344914
you need to study more about the human body, because you're pretty dumb

>>14344935
Nah man I'm just worried I got Barret's Esophagus. I get these a lot when my acid reflux is out of control my gastroenterologist used to say it was because my throat is being eroded by acid and making small pockets and could lead to throat cancer if it progresses to barrett's. Maybe you should try to get context before assuming shit.

>>14344914
>>14344935
I’m the OP, not that guy. It’s not throat cancer. The pockets everyone has in their throats become deep crypts when you have strep throat several times, for me personally I had it like 15 times.

These crypts are susceptible to food getting deep in them and calcifying. That’s the whole story.

>>14344971
Thanks for the info man. I was just worried since I get these a lot and have really bad reflux so I'm already predisposed to throat cancer.

>>14343225
Maybe I'm weird, but I love smelling these. Smells like faeces.
Obviously I only smell my own.

>>14344935
you need to study more about human interaction because you're pretty fucking annoying