WARNING: Extreme booger pictures ahead. Not Safe For Lunch.

**SpaceflightAddict** · 09-26-2013, 06:21 PM

I warned you. Don't click the link, seriously.

I have had a request to share some of the snotties that came out of my nose after I began treatment for my Wegener's, so here we go.

Really, these are gross. Don't click the link.

Wegener's boogers - Imgur

Why did you go click that? I told you.

Coins and drivers license provided for scale, these suckers were huge, and felt soooooooooo good coming out.

For about the first two weeks after my treatment began, I was getting these huge necrotic monsters coming out after a sinus rinse.

Since then the discharges have returned to "normal" non blood streaked, moist mucus.

If anyone else has some great booger pics to share, please do! I would love to see them.

Let's try and keep them hidden behind links though, so nobody gets surprises.

-SpaceflightAddict

**pberggren1** · 09-26-2013, 06:26 PM

Those are good pics. Now I just have to find mine and link them somehow without posting the pics directly. Any advice on how to do that Andy?

**SpaceflightAddict** · 09-26-2013, 06:32 PM

Just go to imgur: the simple image sharer and create an album. It is free, and you do not have to create an account to post anything there, so you can keep nice and anonymous. They give you a link to delete the pictures if you don't have an account, so should you need to, you can.

**pberggren1** · 09-26-2013, 06:36 PM

I just realized I already have an album of 3 pics of some snotty nose chunks on here.

Here is the link.......

http://www.wegeners-granulomatosis.c...hunks-etc.html

They are not very big compared to some I have had in the past or even some I have had later. But will give you an idea of what comes out each day.

**andrew** · 09-26-2013, 07:14 PM

They remind me of the boogers I used to get just after diagnosis. Huge things!!! It's hard to fathom how they can come out of just a small nostril lol

**SpaceflightAddict** · 09-26-2013, 07:18 PM

Did they feel as good coming out as they did for me? I can't even begin to explain the relief I felt when one of those bastards freed themselves from my hear.

**gilders** · 09-27-2013, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by andrew

Huge things!!! It's hard to fathom how they can come out of just a small nostril lol

Without getting in to a mine's bigger than yours boast, I can explain why (at least mine) were so much larger (especially longer) than my nostril.
For those who have had these beast boogers, think where did you get the relief from apart from the nose?
In my case the relief mostly came from just under my right eye. The reason being my super length boogers traveled into my sinus cavity. They were so uncomfortable. I used to be almost in tears if the booger broke as I was dragging it out as I would have to wait until enough nostril booger built so that it would reconnect with the sinus booger!

Thank you spaceflightaddict for bringing this subject up. At least I know I'm not a freak now!

**annekat** · 09-27-2013, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by SpaceflightAddict

Just go to imgur: the simple image sharer and create an album. It is free, and you do not have to create an account to post anything there, so you can keep nice and anonymous. They give you a link to delete the pictures if you don't have an account, so should you need to, you can.

I did not see way to create an album... is there a home page or whatnot? By doing this, did you share your booger pics with the entire world, at least temporarily? I did not look at any of the booger pics; I figure, you've seen one booger you've seen them all. And I've had some huge ones, just like some of you, so I know what those look like, too. They are often kind of "ruffled" or convoluted in shape, I figure because they have broken loose from being up against the lining of the nasal cavity. Mine don't give relief around or in back of the eyes; I don't have much problem around the eyes, except for more runny mucus coming out the corners of them. I did have a lot more eye discomfort early on, which disappeared with treatment. My buildup seems to be confined to the nasal cavity and openings to the sinuses. I'm not altogether clear on the anatomy. My relief is definitely felt in the nasal area and the back of my throat, where they occasionally come out, though it's usually out the nostrils. My nose immediately becomes less runny, as it is no longer trying to expel them. I have had my ENT extract them a few times; that was pretty good. But using the NeilMed several times in a row usually does about the same thing, and I only have to do that about once a week. I do the NeilMed every day, just not that many times.

Alysia, the translation for "booger" is just what you think it is after seeing those pics, although people without Wegener's probably have much smaller ones..... we have mega-boogers. When we were kids and talked about boogers, we just meant small ones, since we had no clue they could be that big. I did have some big ones before I knew I had Wegs, and did some research and found out that some apparently non-Weggies have them, too. My ENT did not think it was weird to have them, for someone who supposedly was just having recurring sinus infections. But they have gotten a lot bigger since my dx. I figure the damage Wegs has done to my anatomy has created a lot more space for big ones to create themselves.