Tonsil stones! - How I hate thee

[Orcone101]

Help me ;_;

What's the best way to get rid of tonsil stones? I've had around 3 so far, and they get stuck there for a few months before finally dislodging themselves.

For anyone not in the know, tonsil stones give the feeling of a grain of rice stuck behind your tonsils.

It's driving me nuts!

 

[Naudian]

Careful now.

(Note: I've never actually tried to remove a stone before, but I've been tempted to grab a knife a few times.)

 

[Vegeta897]

Suck on a vacuum.

 

[VirusType2]

What's the best way to get rid of tonsil stones?

I've never heard of them. But you can remove your tonsils. I think that should do the trick

 

[Ennui]

Never heard of this either, but it sounds awfully annoying.

 

[Raziaar]

They suck balls.

You just have to wait it out.

Trust me, just wait it out. Before you know it they'll be gone.

That is, if I think what you describe is anything like I've experienced before.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsilloliths

Those big ones made me gag just seeing them. I've had them before. Pretty easy to remove, just use tongue pressure.

 

[xcellerate]

I use a mechancical pencil and click the graphite out like 3mm, then you can just pop them out. I probably remove one a week...

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I just like that the fact that wikipedia calls it the Tonsilar Crypt.

"Sanctuary! Help us! We are pursed by bandits!"
"Quickly, my children. Into the Tonsilar Crypt! You will be safe there"

 

[Higlac]

It looks like mouth acne. Similar kind of thing I'm guessing?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Nope.

 

[Raziaar]

I use a mechancical pencil and click the graphite out like 3mm, then you can just pop them out. I probably remove one a week...

The fact that you get one a week is disturbing. I get one maybe four times a year.

 

[xcellerate]

maybe a week was exaggerating slightly, but still fairly often. I'm also OCD enough to where even if I can't feel them, I'll still check to see if there's anything there. So a lot of ones I remove are pretty small.

 

[VirusType2]

As a young child, I was often ridiculed and outcast - I was shunned away by my peers. I looked to the sky and yelled out, "why!". "Why me?", I bellowed from the depths of my soul. I was made to feel inadequate, as if I was only half of a person. I was incomplete and there was nothing I could do.

My tonsils were no more. They had been surgically removed before they had a chance to live their curious lives, with purposes unknown. Sure they harvest lots of germs and look a bit ridiculous, but like an ugly child, they were mine, and I loved them. In their short but wonderful existence, they would often help me to get sick, so that I could stay home from school and play with my Lego blocks. They understood that there is nothing to be learned in first grade that can't be learned along the way. And along the way is an amazing adventure called life.

Well, now I realize, I don't need them to feel good about myself, to feel complete. I am just as good... I'm even better without them.

To all those who ridiculed me: I hope those tonsils are the death of you.

The End

 

[JNightshade]

These things are godawful. I used to get them constantly as a kid, but fortune has smiled on my tonsils of late.

 

[Adabiviak]

Might the pH of your saliva, if it's off even slightly, make this calcification process happen a little faster than 'normal'? I've never heard of these, but they sound like they'd be irritating.

 

[David.Seth2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPOORSs9Iy8