First Day of ENT

[@mirandarensberger6919]

As a sterile processing tech, I have learned that any surgical instrument that looks like your mom would say, "Don't stick that up your nose" is probably an ENT instrument. Also, anything that looks like I don't want it anywhere near my eyeball is probably an ophthalmology instrument.

[@Just1Nora]

Ya know...accurate. I've had those ent "tongs" and a straight endoscope just disappear so far into my face I swear I could be the circus act where you hammer nails into your face. I inhale water while trying to swim, but dang, if I can't breathe most of the time! 😅 "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear!" I keep trying to get my 75 yr old father to stop. "But they're SO ITCHY!" Yeah, because you keep diggin in there! 😂

[@caroline10081]

@@Just1Nora let's not talk about the needles used for retrobulbar injections

[@philinator71]

*Eyelash curlers enters chat*

[@rainydaylady6596]

Having wet mac degeneration I'm familiar with needles in my eye and the thingy that my Dr uses to keep my eyelid open. 😱🤣😂🤣🖖

[@stadot1427]

Thank you for reviving this trauma. Picture this: innocent 11-year-old me sitting in the computer lab, working on a project and I realize I need a picture of scissors. So I navigate over to Google, search for "scissors" in images. WHY is there a picture of an EYE BALL IN SURGERY on the FIRST PAGE of results?!

[@ericherde1]

Qtips, the only product that tells you on the package not to use it for its most common use.

[@Puglover130]

It’s like eyeshadow palettes , that say “not intended for use near the eye area” GTFO

[@sunfI0wer]

Flushable wipes say not to flush them

[@mscott54321]

And all the proctologists out there jealously wishing for warnings on literally most objects that they shouldn't be inserted like that

[@MJ-oh5ux]

"cotton tipped applicator" to you sir

[@adorabell4253]

@@sunfI0werflushable wipes aren’t flushable past the toilet bowl. In countries outside the USA they have large warning saying not to flush them but in the USA the makers argued that as they could be flushed down the toilet bowl itself the subsequent clog in the pipes didn’t count as non-flushable.

[@princessxera]

"Show some grown ass doctors how to stop a nosebleed" so freaking real

[@hometownmedic7355]

It's funny and all; but hides the real problem. ER docs know how to stop a nosebleed, along with about a million other skills and procedures crossing almost every specialty boundary. They've also got about a million things to do, only half of which are immediately life sustaining at any time so if they can punt a time sink onto another doc, really any doc but preferably a 9-5 doc, yeah that's going to happen 10/10 times, and hey if they need to look stupid(to you) to get you to do their work for them(and buy the liability ..), most are going to be ok with that (and the rest didn't call ENT for an epi because they're one man hero shops).

[@Yikes-me5ol]

I had a cyst in my ear. 1st ENT performed surgery to remove it. Problem came back. I was told oh it is just a problem ear. She retired. I went to a rock star of an ENT, who removed the bone it was growing in, which sat on a facial nerve. My ear is no longer a problem. The rock star ENT retired. I hope he is enjoying his well earned retirement.

[@riverstyx7251]

Wow. I didn’t know cysts could grown on bones, sounds painful

[@Yikes-me5ol]

@@riverstyx7251 It didn’t hurt. It gave me a leaky ear, sometimes with blood. I am just thankful it did not grow into the nerve that controlled half my face.

[@roadlesstraveled34]

Fortunately she didn't have to remove any spiders during the surgery😅

[@Yikes-me5ol]

@@roadlesstraveled34 No spiders were removed. Haha

[@stephanieparker1250]

So., when their bill was paid, they retired. That says a lot. 😂❤

[@NeuroBombay]

The nosebleed comment just killed me 😂 I literally saw this happen during one of my last ED shifts as an M4 a few months ago

[@aranyss]

Needs more cocaine 😂

[@Raioh.]

Rhino rocket! And also afrin! Brrrrrr.

[@mscott54321]

Does erectile dysfunction cause a lot of nosebleeds?

[@benjamindelaney1847]

⁠​⁠@@mscott54321If the two are linked in some way it would prolly be an issue with the blood pressure or heart causing both problems but they could be completely separate issues

[@starcatcher62]

Rhino rocket, Afrin, and last ditch...the cocaine powder!

[@Zosio]

I used to work with a surgeon who was board certified for both neurosurgery and ENT. The raw power that man held.

[@nineten9011]

That’s the dream

[@blairhoughton7918]

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: (Schedules a head transplant).

[@caroltran237]

Me too!

[@susanferretti5781]

Damn

[@superslash7254]

"Look simba. Everything from the neck up is our domain." "What about that dark shadowy place?" "That's a politician, they don't have anything above the neck."

[@ejk6304]

The Arachnologist viciously fistfighting a Malacologist for one single research dollar in the distance would like everyone to know that spiders will never preferentially go into your ears or mouth, and would very much rather avoid you entirely

[@gabbersification]

Had to Google malacology. Now I'm a little sad that that's your competition but glad I learned something new. Thanks for the comforting information.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Had to Google if it is the most common. It isn't. I actually couldn't get a true list, but cerumen impaction.

[@Cog_Nomen]

Awww, why would you fight the malacologist? They only have, what, one venomous player on their team to write eye-catching grant titles with when eviction time comes? 🥺

[@ejk6304]

@Cog_Nomen Underappreciated sub disciplines of invert biology unite, indeed.

[@gigas115]

Despite this, I have had multiple spiders that would prefer to move towards and on me rather than piss off in literally any other direction. They usually end up dead because I mistake them for hair and try to swipe it off only to realize too late it was a critter.

[@LeElister64]

I once had both ears blocked by ear wax at the same time, which made me temporarily deaf. This was so bad that I took a toothpick, blunted it and dug part of the ear wax out so I could hear a little until I could go to the doctor. This didn't cause any damage but the horrified look on the doctor's face told me that it was a stupid idea.

[@silversleeper1193]

Still not the worst thing I’ve heard people tell me they stuck in there…

[@williamhrivnak7345]

I get plugged ears quite often and the trick that works well for me is to soak Debrox in the ear for 10 minutes. Then I use this thing called a wax blaster which is a spray bottle with a nozzle that fits in your ear and spray water with a little bit of baby shampoo and it clears it really well every time. I learned this trick from an NP who billed me $40 to do it and I’m like “I’m just gonna do this from home for free from now on”

[@BlackCanary87]

I bought ear wax removal drops from a drugstore...

[@mikebarushok5361]

My ENT (and my audiologist) recommended a drop of olive oil in each ear once a week. This was after the end of a cotton bud detached and stayed against the ear drum. No more Q-tips for me.

[@queenofthecapes]

​@@mikebarushok5361 Olive oil was a common home remedy on my mother's side of the family, but the doctor never even heard of doing that. We were told about white vinegar, though, which I've been using ever since with decent results.

[@SilphBoss]

The explanation of the 2nd hand embarrassment muscle leading into immediate demonstration of it was so good 😂

[@exp2745]

I'm thinking about Ophthalmology = I really don't like anatomy and would like to forget most as soon as possible

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

Nah that’s internal medicine

[@exp2745]

@@PhoenixRoseYT If we really want to go all the way, my money would be on Psychiatry...

[@Foundinwonderland]

@TankGuy3 it may lay dormant for years, but it never truly leaves. Like herpes!

[@hashslingingslasher97]

Just the neuroanotomy. No need to worry about muscle insertions or origins. It's great! ​@exp2745

[@jedinxf7]

opthalmology is for doctors who like physics more than biology lol

[@rxanime535]

For a moment I thought he was gonna be like oh so you’re my enemy for the next 4 weeks. ENT vs ophthalmology.

[@sgbd461]

Eyes vs. all of the rest of the face, basically.

[@Lolibeth]

Shout out to the ENT who removed a large cyst from my neck when I was 20 months old, saved me from slowly suffocating!

[@tanyahp4554]

God bless ENT doctors, I developed rhinitis post-covid and it got so bad the inflammation started pressing on my optic nerve, I thought I was going to go blind in one eye. Emergency surgery saved my vision and my sinuses to some extent so Thank You folks who specialize in this area!

[@hannahlee1093]

Dr. Glaucomflecken, you just made my day. As a PA working in ENT, I’ve been waiting for ENT to show up.

[@aaronrobinson943]

Also, my ENT saved my life twice. Folks overlook them as earwax pickers, but really it's an underrated field. ♥️

[@clarewhite3004]

They're the ones we call on when respiratory, SLP, and anesthesia can't figure out WTF is wrong with the damn airway.

[@Amandaaa2244]

One of my first patients ever as a PA was someone with a roach in their ear and removing it was SO SATISFYING!

[@sunshinerainbowshrimp]

As an ent resident, ants are actually the most common bug i've picked out of ears, ticks a close second 😅 the freaky one was a kid with a live worm though (and the cranial nerve we're obsessed with is the facial 😅)

[@thatcarlchick7655]

That sound you hear is me screaming.

[@guardianeris]

@@thatcarlchick7655 me as well.

[@johannageisel5390]

While we were on our 4th grade class trip, my teacher got a moth trapped in her ear. She had to take a break from the trip and look for a doctor in the town we were in to have it removed. I don't think the moth survived.

[@priyadonna]

Try an ear full of maggots which ate through the TM; I had to "flush" them out with chloroform; I was basically wearing battle armor in the form of multiple yellow gowns, gloves, mask , hair covers to do it; ah the joys of being an ENT resident...

[@johannageisel5390]

@@priyadonna Yeugh.

[@Cara-39]

After having deviated septum surgery and turbinectomy, my nose was packed with "rhino rockets", essentially a $600 tampon inside each side, and removing them the next day was so painful that I'm still suffering from ENT induced PTSD 20 yrs later!

[@CanyonALynn]

I had that done, too: Septoplasty and turbinate reduction. Those splints were the worst thing for me when I had them in. Just don't sneeze anytime afterwards... 🥹

[@Cara-39]

@@CanyonALynn I don't remember if sneezing was a problem as it's been a while since the surgery but I'll never forget the pain of removing them. I had stitches and my nose was dry by the time I could remove the packing so I spent 30+ min trying to get them out. I don't think post-op nose packing is universally done anymore, maybe for this exact reason, but if I ever had surgery in my nose again, I would search out an ENT that doesn't use them!

[@CanyonALynn]

@Cara-39 Mine were these long plastic-like splints that they put in your nose to hold them open and retain the shape of the nostrils/nose. It was 4-5 days after the surgery when I had to follow up with the ENT for her to pull them out, clean, and put a scope up there to check on healing. Maybe it was the 4-5 day timeline on why I almost died when sneezing afterwards as my nose was still healing.

[@roadlesstraveled34]

I had that too! It didn't hurt to take them out but I became SO paranoid of my nose breaking, I had a 3yo boy, 1yo boy and 7m old boy and it was kind of a logical fear since they were wild and the baby was into head butting me😂

[@CanyonALynn]

@@roadlesstraveled34 Yeah, the splints didn't hurt coming out, but day-by-day, they were getting more and more uncomfortable being in my nose. By day two, I wanted to take a pair of pliers to pull them out myself. Yeah, having that recovery period and being around rambunctious baby boys... I would've been wearing a full motorcycle helmet. 😄

[@shaniecesingleton3704]

What I love is the interns ability to triggers every single doctor when he tells them what specialty he’s thinking of going into.

[@marm742]

Loved the practical application of the second-had embarrasment muscles when responding to the student wanting to be an eye-guy instead of a throat guy 😂

[@tammyelizabeth5157]

ENT taught me to do Epley Manouvers at home, and I no longer have dizziness and nausea. Best doctor ever!

[@donnaleeah5075]

It does help! MD doing acupuncture taught me how to do it to myself. I no longer need to. This broke the cycle

[@strawberryfields1094]

I pulled a small cockroach out of a patient's ear last week. I'm primary care though... i never know what I'm gonna get. Physicals take the strangest turns sometimes.

[@mawe86ify]

And you didn’t immediately quit???!!! Good thing there are people willing to be doctors because I could not do it…

[@strawberryfields1094]

@@mawe86ify it helped that the roach was already dead... but, then again, that means it was stuck in there long enough to die. That is also creepy...

[@mawe86ify]

@@strawberryfields1094 I commend you for staying in the room! I would have left the country screaming…

[@strawberryfields1094]

@@mawe86ify 😆 I was definitely screaming on the inside. I had to crunch the bug a few times with the tool I was using in order to extract it. Then rinse the ear to get the remaining bits out. 0/5 stars. Would not recommend. Lol

[@strawberryfields1094]

@@mawe86ify at least it wasn't a spider. I may have quit then. 😆

[@mosasaurusrex1815]

I literally bought one of those little scope things so I can check my ears rather than blindly chase the spider around with a qtip.

[@talithasuya8908]

Practical!

[@Cara-39]

I have severe arachnophobia and just the thought of a spider in my ear fills me with abject terror so I've slept with earplugs for yrs to avoid this very situation.

[@riverstyx7251]

I just started wearing ear plugs when I sleep. Not because of the spider thing, but because nighttime noise was a huge issue at a previous apartment. 3 years ago I lived above a very active and rambunctious couple who really did not give a flying fuck about other people’s sleep. A neighbor called the cops on them-it was that bad. I wore ear plugs for months and then I was unable to sleep without them in due to becoming hyper aware of mundane noises like the air conditioner. I also had to wear a sleep mask because there was a street lamp that shined directly in my window and into my eyes while I was living in that apartment, and now I can’t sleep without that either. That particular apartment was the cause of a lot of sleep related issues for me and I already had insomnia when I moved in. But I was in college and the rent was cheap so

[@Cara-39]

@@riverstyx7251 I live in Manhattan, with a fire station 3 doors down and a major hospital 4 blocks away, and I just got so used to the noise that I can't sleep outside of the city without sleep sounds. It's just way too quite and ironically the silence amplifies the smallest sounds, so bird chirps wake me up at 5am. I have white noise apps on my phone specifically for when I stay with family in the suburbs. The earplugs I use aren't noise canceling as I want to be able to hear if something happens at night...even though I do sleep like the dead at home lol!

[@azearaazymoto461]

@@riverstyx7251 Next step is a sensory deprivation chamber, lmao

[@lukehamilton5142]

Showing a grown ass doctor how to stop a nose bleed is EXACTLY what made our ENT Reg the God that he was to us.

[@SeattleENT]

Nice. I’ve been waiting for our turn in the GlaucomCriosshairs. As a wise man once said You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose…. Unless you’re an ENT 😉

[@jamesstewart7784]

My mum is 70 to 80% deaf so we're frequently visiting the ENT department over the years. It's amazing how the ear, nose and throat are all connected in some way.

[@yaboicolleen]

I had a family medicine doctor explain how they're all interconnected the last time I had to get my ears cleaned. I was like, "Ohhhhhh, so ENT makes even MORE sense now!"

[@blairhoughton7918]

And eye. All rivers lead to stomach.

[@eequag7]

@@yaboicolleen​​⁠Can you share how they are all connected?

[@elizabethmende4191]

My FIRST day in ENT the doc said, sit down, let me show you what I do. Proceeded to spray my nose to numb it and SCOPED my upper airway! It wasn't pleasant and I almost didn't go back.

[@bonessasan]

My brother had a migraine for a year, had imaging done (can't remember if it was a CT or MRI), no one could find anything wrong. Then he went for something routine and when the provider checked his ears, he had a massive cerumen impaction on one side. He described it as "about the size of [his] thumb" (I have doubts) and said the headache almost immediately went away after they pulled it out. I suspect q-tips were the culprit.

[@muirgenmonet]

I do not have doubts. I do ear lavages on patients and the amount/size of some of the impactions I’ve seen is astonishing . The process is like cleaning crumbs out of a keyboard- gross but oh so satisfying!

[@chasejensen899]

My dad is an ENT and never allowed us to use Q-tips growing up so this is very accurate

[@boka5290]

How did you clear your ears? I have a Qtip addiction and I think I caused som inflammation 😢 but it feels so good! Like a mini orgasm. 😅

[@sidneym2066]

@@boka5290I’m pretty sure you aren’t supposed to clean them out yourself. My ENT told me that ears are basically self-cleaning and will drain when needed, but if we interfere with the natural process, that’s when problems can arise, like getting impacted.

[@andzzz2]

When I was an intern all the ENT doctors, after they had finished their Q-tip rants, would tell us to never blow our noses and proceed in a demonstration of snot swallowing.

[@izzieluv]

My son had a trach until he was 3. We're a big fan of ENTs at our house!

[@hellomello258]

I saw my ENT around as often as I saw my GP growing up, maybe more. He did 10 procedures on me over 9 surgeries from 9 months old to 15 years old (7 sets of tubes plus an adenoidectomy when I was 6, then a right tympanic patch at 12 and a left tympanic patch at 14, both of which failed by the time I was 17 and I've had holes ever since). We were friendly enough with my ENT that he saw my dad (who hadn't come to an appointment in ~5 years by then) at a restaurant then took us all over to meet his wife and kids at his table.

[@SuiLagadema]

The platysma muscle part struck so hard! I was the anatomy nerd that even counted the auricularis muscles because they're so... amusing when you can control them a little bit.

[@Joy21090]

Is that the ear-wiggle muscle? What's the scalp slide-back-and-forth muscle? My son can slide his scalp but I cannot. But I can wiggle my ears.

[@SuiLagadema]

@@Joy21090 Epicranius muscle, I think it has another name now. Fun fact: Some headaches are produced due to extended partial contraction of the muscle.

[@darkchocolate59]

New fear unlocked ✨

[@umbrellahat]

Ever since I was a kid and I read the book Bud not Buddy where it mentions a cockroach crawling in a kids ear, I've been really paranoid of bugs crawling in my ears when I'm sleeping. I've always kept my hair long enough to put over my ears while I sleep.

[@shannonb4011]

As a kid I got dropped during a piggy back onto a concrete floor! I had the worst nose bleed and the teachers were all telling me to pinch my nose at the tip and put my head back. My mom was a nurse so little 7 year old me was lecturing them about how to properly handle my nose

[@brennaw8684]

Yes!! I was hoping you would make an ENT video!! 😁 Great comedy as always 👏😎

[@silversleeper1193]

Audiologist here (hearing and balance doc). People think it’s a magic trick when I can instantly tell that they use Q-tips, but the damage it does to your ears is just really obvious. Parents of little kids will say “Sorry their ears are dirty, I’m afraid to use Q-tips on them.” I say good, keep that fear.

[@Cara-39]

I'm guilty of digging around with qtips daily to ensure my ears are clean and using them is like a little massage in each ear! I hate the soft plastic ones that bend and can't be felt - I buy swabs like iron rods so my ears may be red for a bit but they'll be clean!

[@lindsyfish6704]

When I found out ears are basically self-cleaning ovens I was quite happy about not having to buy q-tips in those quantities anymore.

[@Cara-39]

@@lindsyfish6704 Self-cleaning?? Wax starts building up and can be visible without a scope after abt a week without cleaning. I think the reason I'm so fastidious abt cleaning my ears is because I've seen too many ppl with waxy ears, even at a conversational distance, and once stumbled upon the horror show that is ear blackhead popping channels/videos...and there are a ton 🙈

[@Joy21090]

When you have psoriasis inside your ears, which is the least of all evils: cotton swab, pen cap, thread end of a darning needle, or fingernails??

[@Joy21090]

Asking for a friend of course.

[@tessalexander4569]

as a classical singer, ENTs are my heroes!!

[@mannys9130]

I did have a bug fly into my ear while I was sleeping, but it wasn't a spider; it was a "pea and bean weavil" or "seed beetle." I had a ziploc bag full of fallen whole Mesquite tree bean pods which I had collected and planned to germinate, and the bag was double-bagged in a cubby drawer in my room. Many weeks later I started noticing a bunch of beetles around my room. I caulked every crack and gap and I put insecticide on every threshold. No joy. One night I was side sleeping and I was awoken VERY suddenly by a visceral reflex and I felt like it was because something just touched my ear. I brushed my ear and didn't feel anything so I laid back down horizontally. I thought I felt something move, and I tried picking at my ear with my finger. Nothing. I shook my head sideways and up and down trying to shake it out. Nothing. I waited 10-15 seconds staying still and felt nothing, so I laid back down with the questionable ear facing downward. Then I felt my ear drum making a popping/watery sound as if I had gotten water in it during swimming. Immediate panic. I sat up and stood up to go get my ear endoscope from my closet to see what fresh hell was taking place inside my skull, and that was when it crawled back out past the section of ear canal which has all of the fine ear hairs. The tickle from it doing that triggered the ear-picking reflex once again and when I stuck my finger in there that second time I squished it and I was able to scoop it out intact. I can't even begin to decribe the heeby jeebies. 😫😫😫 A week later I looked for something else and I found the Ziploc bag of beans and the swarm of beetles inside. They had chewed through both layers of the plastic and then escaped the cracks of the cubby drawer. At the time I didn't realize that all the tiny holes in the individual seed sections of the whole pods meant that there was a beetle larvae inside which was going to hatch into a beetle like that. Lesson learned. 😑 As a kid, I had OCD and TMJ which made my ear canal tingle all the time and I felt like something was crawling inside. I was obsessed with the idea that a spider was living in my ear and I forced my doctor to look inside and tell me there was nothing in there. Getting a bug in my ear has been one of my biggest fears ever since and it fuckin' happened for real one day. Good god.

[@trueloveo3]

Bahahahaha the nose bleed part got me good! If I had a dollar for every time I had to get my ENT docs nose bleed supplies for the ED I could retire by now 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@StefinSeattle1]

What do they do to stop a nosebleed and why aren’t ED people able to do it 🤔

[@Joy21090]

You never fail to make my day with a hearty laugh.

[@Neyjina]

People forget that ENT also takes care of larynx issues. The hospital I work at is famous for it’s Pediatric ENT-department and we have a lot of kids who were constantly living on the edge of suffocation until they came to us. ENT is super important!

[@KayKimree]

Noooo. Why is the nosebleed comment so real??? It just happened over here, 2 weeks ago.😂😂😂😂

[@crazyGills]

my ENT told me I had beautiful eardrums 😂

[@lindseydejesus1877]

wild I am literally shadowing an ENT RIGHT NOW

[@KxNOxUTA]

"shadowing" needs a skit! 😂

[@rainydaylady6596]

Great, now I have to wear ear muffs when I sleep. 🎧😱 😂🤣😂🖖

[@guilliamlille6123]

Oooh i get to see one next month. Dermatology was too scared to take off a cyst on my scalp so sent me to the ear guys???

[@TakenTook]

Some ENTs are also head and neck plastic surgeons

[@isaacaasi563]

I didn't know mystical tree creatures also moonlit as doctors

[@Stlaind]

As someone who once was within a couple minutes of being sent home from school due to a spontaneous nose bleed, I've learned a couple tricks.

[@StefinSeattle1]

Please share. I’m curious 📝👀

[@deannad9105]

Reminds me of the Raising Hope episode where the girlfriend starts wearing pantyhose over her head while she sleeps, to keep the spiders out of her ears😂

[@jewelsbarbie]

LoL!! 🤣

[@Emg2463]

I know someone who had a bug crawl in her ear while she was sleeping....her husband poured alchohol in her ear to kill it....but they waited till the next day to go to the hospital to get it out. Her ear swelled around the bug, they had a difficult time getting it out....and....she did loose hearing in that ear from that....

[@TheRupertmcgee]

I was in my mid 20s when I had to go to the ENT because I was having a lot of recurrent nasal congestion. It seemed mostly routine at first, they assumed my congestion and sore throat were from acid reflux and just wanted to check, but it turned out my deviated septum was so bad they couldn't get the scope through and had to go all the way through the hospital to go get the smallest scope possible. At that point it was assumed it was a combo of the acid reflux and the very small opening making draining the nose difficult. So everyone was a little bored and frustrated with all this and how long it was all taking. Then, they finally do the scope, and the ENT's eyes light up, and he calls over the med student who's also suddenly very excited. Turns out my adenoids never atrophied during puberty and were chronically infected, so I basically had an entire extra organ back there I wasn't supposed to have! I was just happy there was an actual weird explanation and I wasn't just having acid reflux I never noticed before for years

[@justincastillo7128]

This actually helped me remember a muscle for anatomy and physiology!

[@Womanwithblackdog]

Frequently the bug problem is simple. Turn the affected ear toward a bright light. It isn’t only moths that are attracted to light.

[@stephenconnor1847]

Q-tip!!! Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear! Now try touching either elbow to either ear.

[@conniepollock4778]

My favorite doctor! ❤

[@satviklodha5219]

Optha, ent are both kinda my fav, chill branches (atleast in my college), chill life, but good clinical exposure.

[@Schlyne]

The nosebleed comment is fantastic. I've spent a lot of time with ent as a patient... And one time in the er for nosebleed that wouldn't stop. When the doctor said "you're going to hate me, it's going to hurt and it'll make you cry" he was right. Rapid rhino. (or rhino rocket, I can't recall which) Never want to repeat that experience.

[@genevieveweston671]

YES! As a SLP, I have been preaching against Q tips for decades

[@jduffy7196]

I had moth fly into my ear… and I also got a rock stuck in my ear (at different times). Getting the rock out hurt…

[@FronkyGeniuZ]

I just rotate in ENT and yes first thing ENT doctor tell me was let see how we stop bleed by anterior nasal packing

[@StefinSeattle1]

Does that mean plugging the cartilage part of the nose with, not gauze, but the dense, absorbent cloth? I’m trying to think of what I have in my First Aid kit at home.

[@fabricdragon]

as someone who used to get nosebleeds that scared my grandmom (head nurse at a hospital!) and terrified teachers... i feel this.... incidentally almost every method anyone has ever tried for "stopping a nose bleed" on me made them worse

[@cocacao__9647]

Damn if only our ENT residents were this chill...

[@lijohnyoutube101]

A college roommate decided to get her ears pierced at the mall by a young women with an ear gun that she was having issues with. Weeks later when my roommate went to remove the ‘thicker starter earrings’ one of the earrings (in some how did that even happen moment) had the ‘detail end break off and shove the remaining earrings part sideways up the ‘inside of the hole’ making a ‘smaller and newer hole’ and bleeding darn near everywhere and our roommate was crying as it HURT! We finally took her to ER as we could not even begin to figure out how to get the earring ‘stick’ part out of her ear lobe. The doctor seemed quite impressed. He was like how is that even possible? They finally called ENT down and they numbed her ear up, made a new smaller cut and had to slightly widen the original earring hole and they did get it out. She had to wait like a year to pierce again that one ear!

[@talithasuya8908]

Having trouble picturing this. Where was the "smaller newer" hole, exactly?

[@konstantinschreiner2122]

I use q tips "wrong" but I'm careful and know the exact limit of the ear canal, and I have many spiders in my room for insect maintenance. You just gave me the fear of waking up and being deaf or being like that crazed man that hears something crawling in his ear, from some firefighters tiktok. (It ended by the patient not hearing the scratching anymore)

[@lh3540]

I had one ENT not impressed at my zombie nosebleeds, and one ENT very impressed at my post tonsillectomy zombie mouthbleed. Just constantly drenched in blood.

[@trishayamada807]

I thought I had a bug in my ear. The vet I worked for looked into my ear and said there was a little blue flower in it! They got it out of my ear. It had to be my cat that dropped it in my ear when I was sleeping. I was making dried flowers and he had been stealing them off my work bench. So much better to have a flower and not a spider in your ear. 🪻

[@wakelamp]

The optic nerve is necessary comment reminds me of the joke about each body part arguing who is most important ... The sphincter wins after it goes on strike.

[@talithasuya8908]

😂

[@belleish3850]

I am an Australian, and I have had a baby spider in my left ear. It made a web according to the second nurse who saw it. The local doctor flushed it out with water at 8am when they opened the next morning because the hospital didn't see it and thought I was wrong when I said I had a bug in my ear. Edit: typo

[@hamzahsholihin8246]

In Indonesia we call this specialty THT = Telinga (Ear), Hidung (Nose), Tenggorokan (Throat)

[@talithasuya8908]

For some reason, "tenggorokan" seems like a sound the throat would make. 😄

[@DonovanPresents]

That spider fact makes me freak out in the middle of the night only to find out I have an ear infection 🙃🫠

[@oljerseysoul8724]

"Grown @$$ Doctors" sent me 😂😂😂

[@Energistx]

I had got Vertigo, doc did a bunch of tests and couldn't find anything really wrong with me. Wanted to put me on a bunch of medication I didn't want to be on. I tried Allergy medicine for the first time and didn't have vertigo that year, the Vertigo was tied to my allergies and easily treatable. Then I got a note that my ENT doctor was no longer practicing medicine in my state.

[@aaronrobinson943]

I have HUGE platysma muscles, and i never knew their name until today. I actually thought they were tendons. #learning

[@bordomsdeadly]

I ruptured my ear drum with a w tip when I was a teen. The dr at urgent care said “yikes” when he looked at it. Not a great sign when the dr says yikes

[@azeemtravadi6128]

ENT get the facial nerve!! and the recurrent laryngeal!! they especially get those nerves when they have to dance around them and avoid damaging them in surgery

[@devent10n]

I always wondered what that muscle was called! Thanks, doc

[@grandlaphi]

Right about q tips. When a tube perforated my young daughter’s ear drum, the person in next er bed had a Q tip protruding from hers!

[@spacekee9071]

oh the nosebleed comment is too real. I once had a summer camp nurse look at me in terror because I had a minor nosebleed. I, all of 13, looked at her and calmly walked her through "Do you have any kleenex around? Okay, so I'm going to hold that to my nostrils while I tip my head forwards to prevent the blood from going down my throat. The flow from this should stop within a few minutes, but will be prone to returning until the blood vessel heals." I'd had both nostrils cauterized twice when I was 4-5 due to re-occuring severe nosebleeds.

[@sarahprice659]

My friend/roommate got a serious bloody nose while we were on a school trip in Austria. But one of the English teachers on the trip used to be a boxer, so…😂

[@abbystarheart1]

Fun fact! Its not pinching your nose and tilting your head back 😃👍 thats how you get bloody throw up

[@DawaLhamo]

I have ear eczema. The ENT is my favorite person. For real. ❤️

[@MrTStat]

I don't use a qtipsl I use at entire round metal chopstick 😂 it is cold and narrow and it feels heavenly to scratch

[@I.m-Me]

My high school health teacher told a story about his sister cleaning her ears with a q-tip during a sleepover. She stopped in three middle to talk with her hands and made an unfortunate gesture, putting her palm forcefully against the ear with the q-tip still sticking out of it 😱😱😱

[@IzzyBits-zw7sg]

My anatomy teacher had so much fun with platysma. She told us to say it like we were in an old horror movie "Platyssssssmmmaaa" and then grinned "You are using it right now!"

[@onecalledchuck1664]

Having had to have my nasal blood vessels cauterized a number of times as a small child, i have a strong distrust of ENT doctors.

[@LC-th3mi]

Whoever first thought of using silver nitrate to stop nose bleeding had definitely been reading too many vampire novels at the time

[@marilyngibson4458]

Nosebleed comment is accurate 😂😂😂

[@christinaeldridge2623]

I went to an ENT for "bilateral idiopathic first bite syndrome" she said she's never seen this before and asked if she could do a case study on me. I also got Botox in my jaw to help which it did help but not 100% i still get random zings of pain in my jaw

[@KHR1827]

I gotta say, decades ago in my old hospital, A LOT of the good looking men were in ENT. 😁

[@BigRedShadevil]

A grumpy ENT doctor tried to blame me for my ears being impacted with ear wax. Told me that’s what happens when I use Q-Tips in my ears. I told him I never used Q-Tips or anything in my ears because it freaks me out. He didn’t believe me until he started digging and saw my very narrow ear canals and no signs of me putting anything in my ears

[@jessicalee6076]

FOR REAL I have had ear issues ALL my life and now have i issues so my to most fav specialists in the same clip ❤❤❤ Remember Don't let your optic nerve swell that means it's gonna be "interesting" for doctors the rest of your life 😂

[@frankcastle1862]

I had nasal issues all my life then because of that I lost my sense of smell, I go to a ENT and that guy sees what has happened to me and calls the whole fucking 1st year med students to look up my nose 😭

[@talithasuya8908]

@@frankcastle1862 😂

[@StarWarsomania]

Thanks for reminding me I need to clean my ears today.

[@JoyArt33]

I live in Australia. The spiders are too big to crawl in our ears while we sleep.

[@aparajithaa4433]

The nosebleed comment..totally relatable 😂

[@heedmydemands]

I will now proceed to never think about a spider crawling in my ear ever again I hope lol

[@johanstrand9352]

That first joke is insanely good holy moly

[@veronica944]

My last primary care provider insisted that I clean my ears out with a Q-tip. I was confused because I’ve always been told you should not put q-tips in your ears.

[@RKNancy]

As I say, don't put dirty stuff where you sleep. This includes snacks and stuff. It leads to creepy crawlies climbing into your bed and then your ear for a quite refuge from the open room.

[@MC-qb1jg]

Ophthalmology is amazing. Opthamologist not only remove cataracts but also select the perfect lens. Think about it.