Loud sneezing

[Ketzele]

I see on MN a lot of hate for loud sneezers. And I get why. Unfortunately my sneezes are so powerful they almost blow my head off. It's hugely embarrassing.

I also see posters asserting it can be controlled. My question is HOW? This is genuine; when I sneeze it feels like my body's in the grip of the gods, completely out of my control.

My manners are in every other way immaculate, I promise you.

Don’t vocalise a sneeze, my husband shouts ‘achoo’. Very annoying!

I promise I don't do that!

You aren't alone in beimg a loud sneezer. How can we control it is a puzzle to me and it isn't done on purpose! My maternal nana, my mum and I all were/are loud sneezers, but it's never with an achoo. We just have to accept it is part of us.

I have no idea if this is helpful, but I find I can somewhat control the volume of my sneezes by controlling whether he air is released through my nose or my mouth and when it is expelled through my mouth kind of controlling it and muffling it by closing the back of my throat (maybe I mean the back of my mouth, not sure about the terminology here) than just letting it rush straight out.

Anyway, that was much harder to describe than I anticipated, and my OH is now giving me weird looks because I have been pulling faces and making weird noises to work out how I do it. 😁. He can shut up, though, because he always sneezes in multiples of three (weirdo)

I do quite like indulging in a loud sneeze tbh, it's very cathartic, but I tend to save them for when I'm in private. The only emotion it would evoke in me if someone else did it would usually be mild envy.

Fellow loud sneezer. It’s not performative. I don’t want it to be loud and forceful. The sneezes hurt and if I could stop them I would.

They tend to come in rapid series for me. Sometimes I have to lie down when I am down because of the pain. Why would I do that if I could avoid it?