Tonsil Stones/Tonsiloliths and Bad Breath

I'm so sad that my breath is probably gonna revert back as soon as I stop taking the medication.

Only a few more days left  of nice breath!

I feel like it's my last day on a nice holiday abroad!!

I'm gonna be lost for ideas when my breath reverts back when off of the antibiotic.

I saw my ENT specialist yesterday, who point blank refused to offer me a tonsiectomy and told me that a relatively new technique to smooth the tonsils with a laser, smoothing down the crypts in the tonsils, thereby eliminating the tonsil stones wasn't available in my area.

I have also eliminated my tonsil stones by poking objects in my tonsils to release them, but my specialist told me that this makes my problem worse, causing scarring, which develops into more crypts!!

He has recommended a sinus rinse kit to rinse my sinuses out each morning and evening, to clean my sinuses and stop the bacteria build up, which is one of the causes of tonsil stones. I have just ordered a neilmed kit on ebay and am hoping and praying this works. I will let you knwo in due course how successful it is.

My question for all of you, because of these tonsil stones I typically have this feeling that something is in the back of my throat and it causes me to swallow a lot, which in it self is bad becasue I can not burp, so I typically get a stomach ache due to bloating. I went to the ENT doctor and he said it wasn't the stones but it was a post nasal drip causing the throat issue. I tried the nasal spray for a few months and no improvement. Do any of you also have the feeling that there is something in the back of your throat causing you to constanly swallow or clear your throat?

I tried everything but kept coughing up these stones. So I tried made a discovery.

I found that these stones were not forming in the tonsils but forming on the very back of the tongue. The tonsils may pick these stones up from time to time but deffo was not forming there.

I had very bad breath in the morning and here is what I did.

I firstly went to the dentist and found I had two bad teeth so I had them removed and my morming breath improved by 90%.

I wanted to rule out sinus problems so I purchased a very cheap nasal irrigator syringe. I started doing the flip and turn sinus irrigation everyday and what I used was a 50/50 mix of salt and bicarb and also mixed in a drop of H2O2. I did this for a week and could breath perfectly. I would also gargle with the rest of the fluid.

I found that I was still getting a bad tast in my throat so I purchased a dental mirror with a light on the end of it.

After cleaning my tongue I stuck my tongue out and then got a spoon and pushed my tongue down so I could see the very back and was horrified to see a ridge of white gunk. This was the breakthrough. I suffer from dry mouth and the back of the tongue is a good breeding ground and this is where the stones were coming from. I cleaned this area with a scraper and wooohoooo bad taste and bad breathn GONE.

If you are wondering about the flip and turn nasal rinse what you do is mix some solution in the syringe and get on your knees. Put your forehead on the floor and gently put some solution up each nostril. Tilt your head closer to your bottom so you can feel the solution working its way to all your sinuses above your eyes. ilt your heah left and right for it to run into both sides. o thjis for about 30 seconds and then let the solution out and blow your nose.You wont regret it.

So Now I will tell you my daily routine.

1) Mix solution and flip./ turn sinus rinse.

2) Normal sinus rinse in one nostril and out the other on both sides. Be sure to snook some of it up so it comes out of your mouth to get the throat moving.

3) Floss. Very important. Smell the floss after doing each tooth. The ones that smell will tell you which ones need looking after more.

4)Irrigate the tonsils with a syringe that has got a bent end. You can buy these online

5)Clean the back of the tongue. The secret here is to get right it the back. It is so far back that you hit a wall when you are cleaning and even after the gag reflex. This is where I was going wrong I wasnt cleaning far enough back.

6)Clean your teeth well preferably use an oxygenating toothpaste.

After doing this routine for over 4 months I have not had one single stone and my bad breath has gone.

I now only do a thorough back tongue clean twice a week but I keep it at bay with a toothbrush by gently going over it.

When you are irrigating the tonsils put some h202 or mouithwash in the solution.

The two major things for me was the tongue and the sinus rinse.

So the facts were correct that 90% of bad breath is from the tongue.

I still have a yellow/white coating on my tongue and am working on a cure for that so I dont have to scrape my tongue as much.

But if you have a dry mouth or are a mouth breather then you are going to have to clean the tongue but clean it properly

Hope this helps.

If you have loads of stones in your tonsils then blast them all out with a waterpik and then try my method