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I just blew my nose so hard that a big spatter of teardrops shot out into my eye and glasses. Never had that happen before.

this time of year I never know if blowing my nose is going to be a normal thing or if being in a super-dry climate part of the time is going to result in a giant blood clot snot cluster flying out

Someone described an area where I farted recently as smelling like a "rotten Jolly Rancher."

#fart

you know the worst way to spend your last night before another 9 weeks of chemo? Eating a poisonous burrito.

stay strong fella

i'm getting i.v. and oral steroids for the first 3 weeks, so maybe.

I shaved my testicles at a partner's request for Valentine's Day. This better be worth the effort and itching.

shoulda waxed

Oooooh. "At a partner's request"!

I'm being allowed go home to work on my knotted lung and razorblade phlegm in a more familiar environment hurrah

albeit with the promise of a camera down my nose in a fortnight. ;*o*;

happy holiday, darragh!

Something weird is going on inside of my nostrils. My nose bleeds every time I blow it and there's always chunky dark green/brown boogers. I feel fine aside from the inside of my nose being tickly/itchy/extra sneezy so I don't think it's a sinus infection. Do you think I need to go to a doctor because I have a weird nostril infection and am going to keel over from meningitis or is it just dry air?

how much blood?

http://i.imgur.com/Dw37t8K.png

Not even full on nosebleed blood. Just like streaks of blood.

I feel uncomfortable discussing my gross nose on ILX but a google search for "do I have a nostril infection" was not very helpful.

i think it's probably the dry air, i doubt you have an infection. i'll often rub (with clean fingers) a little salve or protective balm or coconut oil or something in my nostrils and it helps prevent shit like that

the dark green thing sounds a little weird but idk

I had a gross almost high-five moment with a friend when we commiserated about the fact that using flonase (nasal steroid) was great for alleviating congestion and greatly diminished sinus infections, but it meant a lot of bloody boogers during the winter season.

Actually it was my hair stylist and we were probably loud enough other people nearby were totally grossed out.

I'll try putting nipple butter* up my nose before bed (the blood and boogers is worse in the morning although it continues throughout the day) and see if that helps.

*I don't really use it anymore and was just wondering what I should do with it and here we have it. Also it smells good so that's a plus.

And thank you for the support. :>)

Wait no:

:^)

There we go.

Paw paw ointment is also good as nose lube

Noted. It's also comforting to know that putting salve up your nose is a thing people do.

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far be it from me to tell u to ignore blood tbh

Does sound like dry air to me - maybe get a humidifier for at night too?

my answer to this problem has been the following regiment all winter long: neti pot for each nostril in the morning, same at night, singulaire, loratadin, fexofenadine, tea throughout the day and TWO humidifiers at night (one during the day), three time daily application of PONARIS (this stuff is awesome), twice daily gargling with saltwater.
It's still not great but I haven't had a sinus infection or green sludge in three years.

I used olbas oil in hot water in basin, towle over head and deep breaths kind thing last week and I guess I wasn't ready cos upon first inhalation that shit went through the top of my head and I coughed/snorted a massive glob of blood/sputum/snot right back into the basin about three inches from my face, said fuck this the lot went down sink ive been glaring at it since tho I'm sure done right its a positive cure-all

alcolol in the neti pot with hot water/salt is a winner

I can't really do a neti pot bc it washes junk into my ears and increases the number of ear infections I get (which is already plenty). We run a humidifier in the kid's room. I guess I could get one for our room. Is there a kind you don't have to empty and dry out every day?

You're supposed to empty and dry it out every day? I guess that's why mine has been smelling

Ew. The one in Ivy's room is a Crane teardrop cool mist deal and it gets pink mold on it if I leave water in it. Also scrub it out once/week and rinse it with vinegar. It's a huge pain in the ass.

humidifier emptying/cleaning is the worst but yeah, that's gotta happen or else you get mold and it's counterproductive.
neti washes into my ears too but i combine the post neti refractory period with a series of stretches for my chronic plantar fasciitis that involves hamstring stretch jackknifes with my head rolled from side to side. It takes like five minutes to drain the water out but I get it all. I know i am hella old man with all this complex ablution shit but I used to get crazy laid out for a few months a year with sinusitis and infections and as arduous and frustrating as this nonsense is, it works. i dig it might not be for you; we all have these weird IRL series of tubes in our skull and i gather that the slightest tweak in the makeup or mucous production in there can totally skew the benefit. This took me a ridiculous amount of time to figure out tho' so i proselytize when i can.

I thought I had a pretty intense routine but it is barely visible in the shadow of forks'

I think I've only had sinus infections in the last few years following travel, usually a combo of tiredness + air travel + time where I'm not able to fix up my sinuses properly

I respect the routine forks. I think I'll start with putting nipple butter up my nose and go from there.

i am fairly certain that i would have a college diploma if not for my goddamn sinuses. i missed a lotta classes. I could also blame Diablo II tho'.
i wanna really rep again for Ponaris here; I read about it through Lena Dunham of all people and it is super helpful. Give it a try.
http://www.amazon.com/Ponaris-Nasal-Emollient-30-Ml/dp/B000NB5BFA

I could blame my roommate playing Diablo II until 4am every night for really fucking up my lifestyle

Ponaris looks a lot like a Vicks Vaporub you put inside yr nostrils!

it's kinda like nose grease i guess. it's lamb's oil and 7 secret herbs and spices that deals well with dried up sinuses.

also: sorry i stopped you from graduating

I gradumatated, I eventually put a wall between him and the clicking

between _me_ and the clicking, that is

I will check out this nasal emollient.

I have to clarify though that it's not a sinus problem. It's all in the nostrils, kind of towards the back but definitely reachable by fingers.

i've been spared that horror. ponaris might help there tho'.

i love any small market medication in continuous use since the 50's; it's like legit snake oil

I'll tell you what I love putting inside my nose when it feels dry is Burt's Bees peppermint chapstick. That shit fixes everything.

otm

I'm late to this but vaseline, people, vaseline.

I ended up blowing the nipple butter out of my nose about five minutes after I put it up there. It felt to weird and wrong and bad so I decided to just have a bloody, boogery nose instead.