I am 17 and have had this problem since i was about 13. I am relieved to know that I am not crazy. I have never seen a doctor for it and i am too scared to get my tonsils removed. Is it just me or sometimes do they just seem to keep growing new ones after you take one out. I usually force them out by acting like im trying to get something out of my throat that's choking me.
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Yeah, that looks like what it is. I get those things now and then. . .usually I don't know they're there unless I feel them or cough/sneeze them out. My friend had the same thing and her doctor told her that the only way to really take care of them is to get your tonsils removed. Her doctor said that it came from an infection. I've noticed that when I don't eat/drink a lot of dairy they go away. I guess it's just a matter of finding out what's messing with your throat or getting your tonsils out.
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I have the same "problem' every one else has. those little whitish yellowish colored things are build of food that gets trapped in the pockets in the back of your mouth. i have a big tongue and one day i started to feel around in the back of my throat and noticed something in my tonsils"it feels like a brain" and in the cracks were these little white things. so i would pick them out. ive been picking these things out, i call them "smurfs" every day now for at least 5 years and have noticed after i eat i feel food it will built up in these cracks. and after lets say you eat dinner, in the morning they will be smurfs. i have alot of friends that get them but they cant pick them out they just cough them up. they range in sizes it just depends on how long they have been building up for. thats my history of them.
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gargleing helps if you don't want to scrape them out use cold water and gargle you'll be coughing them up peice by peice w/o the danger of scraping and the difficulty coughing it works and once they're gone your breath will stop smelling horrifyingly distgusting!!!! :-D
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one night night i was going to sleep and i coughed one up, the biggest one i've had, since they've all been pretty small it was just last year . they've been pretty small but regular since i've been paying attention the last couple months. i poke mine out with chopstick that has a small rounded end and has a glossy finish dosen't hurt at all. they seem to take turns growing on each side. i never looked into it untill today out of curiosity to see if anything was out there. mine definately smell like poo when i break them open as does the mucus at the back of my throat. i wouldn't say smoking does anything because i've never smoked anything. i would agree with the food particle and or allergy theory mostly the allergy side. there are a lot of things we have allergies to that we don't realize. and sugar definately feed bacteria. i was wondering though, i'm severly overweight, is anyone else who has this? because i've been of the health"wagon" for about a year and i was wondering if anyone else noticed a possible food/weight/health connection.
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i just got that for the very first time about 20 minutes ago and my mom told me she had it and i just searched it and found this! thanks for the info peps XD
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My goodness it seems like I could smell the little chunck when I looked at it and until now I thought I was the only one with the problem. I thought I was being punished for something I did in the past. I think of myself as a beautiful black woman and there is nothing attractive about the little chunck with the power punch. I do know that the Peroxide and water helps and I have considered getting surgery. I have one that has bothered me for days now so I know what your going through.
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i heard that drinking orange juice helps.
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my right tonsil is swollen pretty bad, i can hardly swallow. and last night when i was seeing how it looked, i realized i had something stuck to my tonsil that was an off white color. after "wiping" it off, i realized that my tonsil was oozing this stuff. but it was not actual "ooze" more like chunks. along with these chunks was a slight amount of blood. without scratching or hurting the tonsil i managed to get the stuff out/off of it. it hasnt returned yet. i dont have a fever, but i have been coughing and sneezing a lot. i am getting really bad headaches from outside light and loud noises. and my body aches all over. i dont know if it is "tonsil stones" because everyone is describing it as being in the throat, and mine was on/in my tonsil.
does anybody know what this could be, because, honestly, i'm pretty freaked out that my tonsil was secreting white chunks of something.
does anybody know what this could be, because, honestly, i'm pretty freaked out that my tonsil was secreting white chunks of something.
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I used to think that they were congealed fat from fried chicken or fried foods that I had eaten that day. But the white chunks are just "debris" from all sorts of things that have traveled down into your stomach. A visit to my pcp warranted this explanation: "your tonsels have ridges, instead of being smooth, and they develope pockets that collect debris. It is not a sign of an infection and do not attempt to take the debris out with your fingers or some sort of instrument (tweezers, etc). Rinsing with salt water might help, but they are otherwise harmless, even if annoying." I didn't feel so bizarre after hearing that, because apparently many people who still have their tonsels, have tonsels with grooves and ridges.
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I've had these since I was a kid--and I'm 40. I'm glad to see I"m not alone. Mine aren't so frequent--maybe 1 or 2 times per month and they are usually pretty small. I don't think mine can be coughed up. I pry them out from between my folds with my tongue. Like the other person who posted, I also squeeze them and smell them. They do not improve. It is most frustrating when I can feel that there is one ready to come out and I can't quite dislodge it. Even though they aren't as frequent as many others have indicated, several times a day, I try to get them out with my tongue.
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hi I had suffered with this to until i insisted on have my tonsils removed,this was 4 months ago and i still have a sore throat following the surgery but it's better than the gross feeling of 'white chunks' it made me feel like i had a dirty mouth and bad hygine which is not the case.my Dr explained how this can occur, as you grow your tonsilcs shrink and can trap food inside which turns bad and creates a cyst this works like a persistent spot filling up and bursting! i used to poke the area surrounding the cyst to 'empty' it every few days. i would recomend having toncils removed as there seems no other way to get rid of it.good luck.
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I don't think these chunks/bacteria are harmful, but I'm not 100% sure. I have been getting them more frequently as I've gotten older. Every couple of weeks I'll get a small one that will come out for some reason after laying down for a long time or exercising, after the small ones come out usually it means that the big ones are lurking in the crevices. Often, if I push on either side of my tonsils -BINGO, a few huge ones will pop out with some work. They are DISGUSTING! They really are. I always smell them, and the smell even without smooshing them is horrific.
I know this is unbelievably gross but sometimes after I take some of the balls out of my tonsils I leave them out overnight and when I wake up in the morning they are hard, brown and crusty! YUCK.
I think one reason I get them is if I drink alcohol. I have noticed quite often after a night of being out and having a couple glasses of wine or alcohol the next morning or intermittently during the night they will collect and start to come out. Maybe its because of the sugar and all the toxins in the alcohol? Not sure, but this seems to be a pattern.
I know this is unbelievably gross but sometimes after I take some of the balls out of my tonsils I leave them out overnight and when I wake up in the morning they are hard, brown and crusty! YUCK.
I think one reason I get them is if I drink alcohol. I have noticed quite often after a night of being out and having a couple glasses of wine or alcohol the next morning or intermittently during the night they will collect and start to come out. Maybe its because of the sugar and all the toxins in the alcohol? Not sure, but this seems to be a pattern.
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I'm so glad I found this topic! I've been having this problem for the past couple of days and couldn't figure out what it would possibly be. I have some weird unknown food allergy that seems to make it worse, but I couldn't imagine what could possibly make mucus get so solid and smell so bad. Ick!
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Wow, I though I had mouth cancer. Thank You people, now i can do something about these nuggets. Now I know alot of people I see in the world probably have these, haha. Thanks for the weird scan, convinced me of Tonsilloliths.
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