I sneeze really loudly and powerful and often I can’t control it. What makes it worse is, its often sprays a lot of saliva as well. I’m safe most of the time if I can get to my handkerchief or tissue in time. But there are times I have no other option but to let it out. Has anyone found a way to tame it and make it milder or easier to control.
Let it out with pride! Shock everyone out of their state of serenity.
I’ve literally thrown my back out trying to suppress sneezes. I gave up trying years ago, I’m a scream sneezer through and through. Dracula barely helps but at least it’s more sanitary.
Elbow is most hygienic. That said someone tell me how to sneeze when I’ve thrown out my back 😭
My dad has the same issue and my girlfriend also had. I was able to help her, he is a lost cause.
But honestly it’s really basic. Just don’t yell while sneezing. Sneeze without vocalising at all. Even if it’s “strong”, it won’t be nearly as loud.
This is just like “muscle memory”. You one day started yelling while sneezing, and it became subconscious.
If you consciously try to not do it every time you sneeze, that too will become subconscious and “muscle memory”.
That thing you see in cartoons where they stop sneezes by putting a finger under the nose? Never seemed to work for me at first, but it turns out, it does work - you just have to push up against your septum, hard. It can at least diminish the urge slightly and maybe help you delay the sneeze so you can time it more conveniently.
I once sneezed so hard while lying down that my sock flew off.
Like you, I use a handkerchief. If I’m wearing a T, I might instead lift up the collar and sneeze down the front of my shirt. More gross for me but more hygienic for everyone else around. The third option is to drop into a crouch and sneeze into my elbow between my knees, funnelling it towards the floor.
I would rather do one big sneeze than lots of little sneezes, though.
Do you at least sneeze in your arm fold? :P
Yeah, I do the Dracula
I usually warn people that I’m about to sneeze so they’re not shocked/surprised/scared.
Apparently you should be able to stop a sneeze by rubbing your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Never tried tho
For me it won’t stop it, but pushing my tongue up and forward against my pallet and clenching my jaw will help contain the sneeze (and often also give the sinuses a good clear).
I tried this. Didn’t really work for me.
Apparently deaf from birth people don’t make any noise when they sneeze, as they’ve not heard anybody else do it so don’t know they “should”.[1] I’m not a particularly loud sneezer but it strikes me as odd that any noise at all would be learned behaviour.
Some people do make a lot of noise though, to the point where I’m thinking that it can’t all be involuntary.
I heard this from years ago; don’t know how true it is ↩︎
No, it sounds like a fucking bark and suppressing it just leaves me uncomfortable
I tried to keep it on the low volume side, but it means I need to hold back a bit of my sneeze.
When I do hold back a little bit, it feels like my chest is hit by a train and it hurts like hell.
So I just live with the sound it makes, try to make it funnier for my kids, and put my mouth/nose into my elbow.
Toddler time on Lemmy lol
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