I’ve lived in a couple of cities in Europe and I can tell you my nose was runny and my throat a bit rough far more often in a poluted place like London (UK) than it is in the small city I live in now in Portugal or the places I lived in when in The Netherlands.
(In fact moving to a small city in Portugal from London hugelly improved of my health when it comes to that kind of thing)
I suspect that the tendency to catch colds and suffer from alergies is often coupled with all the Sulfur Oxide gases around in cities with lots of car polution, since those turn into various sulfur oxiacids when those gases mix with water in the nose and airways.
My chronic rhinitis and I will just stay over here…
I woke up hungover, happy birthday dad.
I think about this every time I start to get sick.
Yes it is, I fucking hate autumn and winter.
All i hear now is my nose whistle
It’s beautiful
wat
I’m gonna be sad now, thanks.
Me too. I’ve had a sinus headache for over 10 years straight. I don’t even remember what it’s like to not be congested. Three surgeries and more drugs than I ever knew existed have done nothing. Good health is definitely underappreciated.
Me too. Allergies can kiss my nuts. I get a break like once every 6 months or so.
This is a PSA Announcement:
An orgasm instantly clears out the sinuses. Due to lack of studies doctors don’t fully know why this happens.
Holy crap, it’s true. Instantly might be optimistic, and they talk only about orgasms during sex (although they don’t say other orgasms won’t help), but it’s genuinely backed up by doctors. Apparently it has to do with how your blood vessels react to excitement and exertion.
For best results, get on top since then gravity is working with you.
Don’t work when you smoke weed.
I rarely smoke it (haven’t in at least 4 years), but when I do and sex happens, I can’t breathe and I end up totally stopped up for at least an hour.
I have allergies too though.
Orgasms, exercise and other “arousal” stimuli like fear or aggression make your blood vessels shrink (vasoconstriction). From the link I posted above: “During arousal, your sympathetic nervous system — the one that activates your fight-or-flight response — kicks in. Just as when you exercise, your adrenaline levels go up and your blood vessels constrict. Less blood flow to your nose means less inflammation, so your nose opens up and you can breathe more easily.”
THC can cause vasodilatation, which is the opposite (blood vessels expand) so it makes sense they’d reduce effects or cancel each other out. Fun fact from the same article, it’s also what causes the bloodshot eyes associated using weed.
Your nose isn’t runny, but can you breathe easily through both nostrils?
Nope, but it’s a feature
yesWeirdly enough, I literally can right now. Usually I cannot. I don’t remember the last time this was the case and I would not have noticed without this post.
Your nose isn’t runny, but can you breathe easily
through both nostrils?🥲
Every night before I go to bed I do a mental health exercise where I list 3 things I was thankful for that day. It’s a habit that is supposed to make you appreciate the good things and help get past the bad.
On unremarkable or bad days the list is that I wasn’t in constant/chronic pain, that I got to eat and drink all that I needed, and that the day is over and I’m in bed and statistically very safe. It may not seem like much on bad days, but if you’ve ever been missing one or more of those 3 things then you know it’s a HUGE set of problems to appreciate not having.
This is a very very good habit to have. It does wonders for mental health including reducing existential dread and depression. It’s not a silver bullet but it helps tremendously.
I try to remember whenever something bad is happening to me like a cold, or getting laid off, I’m grateful to not be a victim of genocide or taken as POW in Russia. Hell, not having to be drafted in the military like Americans did in Vietnam.
Being grateful in the face of suffering is its own CBT
One of the best feelings I ever felt was laying in bed the night after a car accident earlier in the day. It was enough of an accident that I was glad to reflect on it not being any worse, but it also wasn’t bad enough to injure anyone.
When I climbed into bed that night, I was seriously doing that thing dogs do when you take them outside and they flop and wallow around on the grass with their feet flailing carelessly in the air. That bed felt so damn good that night, and I try often to remind myself that it’s the same comfy and safe bed now that it was that day.
Me eating something spicy: “I’ll fucking do it again!”
Me, later: Why does it hurt? Oh god I think I have food poisoning. Is this diarrea?
Nope, just the spiciness I forgot about.
😭 I woke up sick today.
high five (ehm I can’t type emoji)
🫸🫷 me too (just copy an utf8 emoji from some website, e.g. https://emojiterra.com/emojis/high-five/)
The feeling when you physically notice your cold improving, you can breathe through both nostrils, and you don’t feel fatigued and sore anymore is an amazing feeling.
Ever since covid I get the influenza and covid vaccinations every season.
Totally unrelated I’m sure, but ever since I’ve been doing that (and washing my hands first thing when coming home) I haven’t been sick at all. No runny or clogged nose, no coughing or itching throat. No fevers, no throwing up, just pure, healthy bliss.
Get vaccinated people.
I do those things too and want to add; washing your hands. It’s so damn simple. When I get off work, when I get home from being out, just washing my hands seems to have absolutely killed my constant battling sickness.
Walk in door, put down car keys, take off jacket or coat or cardigan or sweater, wash hands. Done. Haven’t been sick in ages.
