I have done something really stupid! Do I really need medical help?

[idiot81]

I can go into the details if needed but I have a wad of toilet paper stuck up my nose! About a 1/4 of a square sheet if it matters.

it’s totally gone, can’t see it with a torch and trying to blow my nose does nothing. I can’t even feel it.

FFS do I really have to go to the Dr as a 43 year old and tell them this? What’s the worst that can happen if I ignore it?

What else am I supposed to do to get to sleep, I can't sleep with a runny nose? I do use more than OP clearly has and make sure there's plenty sticking out!

Go to the ENT department as the paper could drop into your sinus cavity and cause serious infection. If it's just stuck beyond sight in the nostril, the ENT can easily get it back out with a special hook tool.

Another suggesting a Neti pot. Yoingest got a bead stuck up the nose when about 3 years old. A&E job. They were going to operate but tickled nose with a feather. Big sneeze and put it came.

To everyone saying TP will dissolve - to me a more striking characteristic is that it is probably covered in faecal bacteria! I wouldn't chance a brain infection, it's actually quite common.

😂 I always sleep soundly when full, I assume she was nice and full having swallowed it

Hiya
good reviews on here. Got a 12 year old blocked pores on her arms very conscious about it.

I'm thinking/hoping it was not used toilet paper?

And if you tell me that recycled toilet paper also has fecal matter on it, I am never, ever buying it again. I'd rather burn the planet.

I’m just here for the update.

Recycled toilet paper isn’t made from used toilet paper! It’s mostly cardboard I believe.

i concur a visit to hospital is probably on the cards!

I am also one of those who stuffs tissue up my nose when I have a cold but it’s enough that there’s no way it can travel upwards!! Hate a runny nose in my sleep!

Um. I don't want to be sarky but surely you shit next to your toilet paper? 😅 By virtue of its proximity to the toiler bowl, as well as the aerosal flush (but even without that), loo roll probably isn't the best thing to stuff up your cranium. Studies show faecal matter can migrate through 10+ layers of toilet paper

Please get proper medical help. Don't take advice from us here, because we are not medically qualified.

Please ring 111. They will advise you - that's what they are there for.

I always put the loo seat down before flushing after reading that something like 99% of toothbrushes are covered in actual shit, but I see where you are coming from.

I once got a coffee bean stuck up my nose as a child. 😂 We were off on a summer holidays road trip and we stopped at like a coffee roaster place with a cafe and they had big sacks of beans and I loved the smell of them, so took a bean in the car to keep smelling and I smelled it so much that I hoovered it up in a nostril. It took a few hours and a bit of my mum panicking in a hotel room, but it did eventually make its way back out. 🤣

Sorry, OP, no suggestions, but hope you get it out eventually.

Why such a low opinion of your fellow MN posters, @Zita60? Of course some of us are doctors, or nurses, or paramedics or whatever is needed in this instance. Just as some of us are barristers, or engineers, or composers or poets …

(I accept that the difficulty is that we can’t actually know who is suitably qualified for any particular question.)

Good luck, @idiot81 - hope it goes away of its own accord.

I don't have a low opinion of us here. It's just that we are mostly not medically qualified. I saw a post from a pharmacist on this thread, but I don't think I've seen one from a doctor or a nurse.

My point is simply that 111 is the place to go to get medical help.

Have you ever read the instructions that come with it? It’s a small risk but a significant one. You really mustn’t use tap water. It’s a little like saying I haven’t used a seat belt for 18 years and never been injured on killed using my car.

The OP might be a bid odd, but honestly, do you think she has shoved poo covered toilet paper up her nostrils

More likely she has a cold and a dripping nose. I can understand the concern from toilet paper that has been sitting in the bathroom, but my first thought was that you meant she was recycling shit covered toilet paper!!! 😂

I have been known to take a fresh roll of toilet paper into the bedroom if I've had a bad cold and ran out of tissue

Fresh not from the toilet

Unless you flush with a lid on and make sure you dispose two toilet papers before you chuck one into your nose...
Yes you were touching it with shit particles or got them sprayed on.
No one dies from it nowdays (goodby diphtheria) but pushing toilet paper from the loo up your nose can, in a lack of better words, fuck you up.

Well yeah, so I'd wonder if this was serious enough for A&E? Minor injuries or the GP might be more suitable? Presumably a nurse can do it?
OP could keep trying to blow it out and put salt water up there and hopefully it'll come out by tomorrow!

If it makes you feel less stupid, as a mature women I cut the tampon string off when trimming down there. The utter embarrassment of going to the Dr's and explaining. That was something I definitely couldn't leave due to TSS.

I think the tissue would probably work it's way out. Peel some onions to make you cry/nose run and have a good blow, might do the trick.

Surely though there would've still been tampon string inside your vagina to be able to pull it out yourself?

My tampons sometimes turn upside down. Don't ask me how, I haven't the foggiest idea, but they do. I can always reach inside and fish them out. Although, I have heard of some people who cannot reach them manually and have needed assistance from partners after losing the string.

Would you not just squat down and forage about till you found the tampon?

The vaginal canal isn't a never ending orifice. I appreciate you might have disabilities which prevent squatting, but I would have done this before going to the GP! I'm glad you got it sorted.

A kid in my class did the exact same thing with a wodge of paper towel a few days ago. It just wouldn't come out but eventually, just as I was about to call a parent, they did a massive sneeze and it flew across the classroom.