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Tonsil Stones help!

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I started to have these things last year. I'm a 22 year old male and this is the most frustrating thing in the world. Once i had these things stuck in my throat for 10 days and i couldn't stop thinking of anything but this.

I did not know what this what. I always felt it was food stuck in my throat. Whenever this happened, it WAS ALWAYS food i ate but i either didn't chew it properly or ate it too fast. I keep telling myself i will chew properly and eat slow but sometimes i don't.

I found out last year this was tonsil stones when checking out yahoo answers and google. Its a white thing less than the size of a pea that SMELLS. So yes it was indeed tonsil stones. I had this about 12 times the last year. Everytime i swallow my saliva or eat something, I feel something stuck in my throat.

Everytime i got the tonsil stones out, I had to intentionally throw up and gargle myself in the neck to make these things cough out. I had success every time but it takes a lot of attempts to do it. Again i have it b/c i ate a hot dog too fast or didnt chew it properly. The last 2 days has been frustrating for me b/c the food is stuck in my throat and i cannot cough these tonsil stones out.

One time i went to the doctor and he gave me some pills to take to help it. The following day or 2 i finally coughed it out but it had nothign to do with the pills. Out of the 12 time i had tonsil stones, i coughed it out every single damn time. I wished i could just swallow it and it goes down my throat but it has never happened once.

I have ate big pieces of bread and drank water/salt to cough it out but it still doesn't work. Does anyone know if a doctor can just go into your throat and take it out? Trying to gag myself in the neck to make it throw up is very hard for me now. My face turns red and well you get the picture.

Does anyone know what i can do? I really don't think i can cough this one out this time.
 

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I used to get those. I just scraped them out with a cotton bud.
 

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how do you scrap them out with a cotton ball? I seen people say that but how do u see it?
 

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look in the mirror, open your mouth, push you tonsils forward.
It's not easy, it use to make me gag a bit, but works great.
 

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did you ever cough it out before? Every single time i got it out i had to force myself to cough it out.
 

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Sure it isn't strep throat or tonsilitis?

Those infections produce the white bumps too and these conditions are very painful.
 

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****, this sounds like something I might be getting. How did you know you had them? Can you actually see them every time, or was it just that you felt you had something stuck back there?
 

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I used to get those stinky things all the time and then it just stopped. I don't know why and I can't really put my finger on anything different I do now. For me they always accompanied a cold...they just didn't happen out of the blue. Once in a while it would cough out...those are the most disgusting vile little piece of odd crap ever to come out of me.
 

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I had them last year. I knew it was food stuck in my throat b/c i got them everytime i ate somethign and didnt chew it fully or i ate it too fast.

I searched google to see what this was and SURE ENOUGH it was tonsil stones. They smell bad and saw some pictures of it. I dont know why ppl complain about the smell. Its just damn annoying when you talk/swallow saliva or anything and you feel it in your throat. Yes you can see them. I found this out yesterday. Actually... i see one thing around my tonsil and people say those are the things. I don't know if those are actually it.

Its been stuck since Tuesday night and i am damn pissed off now. I cant even enjoy my day anymore. I tried to gargle it out last few days with no help.
 

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I used to get them all the time. Just push them out gently with the end of a toothbrush or something. Yes they're annoying but don't let them ruin your day.
 

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simon can you specifically tell me the steps. Do you always see them? How do you push them with a toothbrush?
 

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Seriously man, I just told you. There is only one step. You just push or scrape them off. I like to use a cotton bud. What don't you understand, look in the mirror then put the stick in your mouth, then push them, then cough them out.

Start using mouthwash after meals.
 

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Okay i tried it over and over. No success. I tried using cotton swab, my finger and i still can't get it out. I am the kind of person that cannot open my mouth real wide to get it out.

I have gargled a lot the last 3 days and still can't get these tonsil stones out.


Do you know if a doctor can do this for you... take a cotton swab or anything and take it out for you?
 

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Hahaha, warrior dude...you sound like you are experiencing an acute OCD episode. Just forget about the damn tonsil stone and go about your life. It'll fall out in time. Forget about it. When I have them they are a pain but life is the same, nothing really changes...just some stupid foreign particle in my throat..whatever. I don't give it a second thought.
 

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i try not to give a second thought but i feel it whenever i open my mouth man. Whether i drink something, swallow or eat i feel it.

Do you know if a doctor can just take it out for you using cotton swab/toothbrush method? I cannot do it myself.
 

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Just ask your mommy to do it for you. A doctor isn't going to be any better at poking things.
 

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Okay i just went to the doctor today. I told him about it and said it was Tonstil stones. He told me it wasn't b/c it was stuck in my throat and NOT in my tonsils. He then referred me to a ENT specifialist.

When i went there, they used the microscope and put it down my nose and into my throat. They tell me they see nothing.


Doe anyone know whats going on here? I mean the reason I am mad is b/c this stuff is stuck in my throat and i feel it every second. When i actually gargled it out the prevous 9 times ... it looked exactly like a tonsil stone and smelled horrible.
 

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