I don't understand the soft palate thing. wouldn't closing it just keep water in your mouth from going down your throat? Closing the soft palate pushes it down, away from the nasal cavities...wouldn't that open your nose up for water to get in? :s
I don't understand the soft palate thing. wouldn't closing it just keep water in your mouth from going down your throat? Closing the soft palate pushes it down, away from the nasal cavities...wouldn't that open your nose up for water to get in? :s
No, the soft palate is above your mouth so it would keep water in the sinus from going down your throat...but for me it still doesn't help because the water stings my sinuses. I lower my soft palate all the time...used to call it "plugging my nose from the inside" so I know I'm doing it, but it doesn't help the sting.
That's why I love my nose clip! I have it clipped to my suit, and put it on just when I'm going to do a flip or roll (it takes a lot of practice to get it on and not falling off the first time, still working on that. XP). I WISH I could get some of those in-nose clips...anybody ever tried modifying some in-nose allergy filters?
Yeah, I have a nose stud, so putting on a nose clip would cause the stud to stab my septum. Alternately, the silicone nose plugs that people were talking about earlier would push the stud out of the hole and I'd lose it. I'm prettymuch screwed unless I can learn to deal with the sting. Usually when water gets in my nose I feel like it goes behind my eyes, and I have to get out of the pool, put my face in a towel, and sit there until the agonizing pain goes away. =,,=
I'm not familiar with piercings (except for ear lobes), but couldn't you take it out to swim? Unless it's a new piercing?
It's new, I got it in June. It's having trouble healing though for lots of reasons, and it's got a little infection going on right now. It's slowly getting better though, but I don't know how long it would last without the stud in. I've had a vertical lip piercing for about a year now and I took it out for a job interview for a little over an hour, and the top of the puncture was closed.
Oh, I see. That's too bad. :-(
ayla: i have tons of piercings and it sounds like maybe you have a nose bone or a fish tail stud? obviously rings would be of no help....but i have a stud in my nose you can get from a piercer/tattoo shop that is literally a small stud, mine has a gem, and it's properly gauged, but it is a long straight piece. they hold it next to your nose to measure it and use specialized plyers to bend a 90 degree angle in it accordingly. once in, it looks identical to any other cute nose stud, but there's nothing to poke into your septum, as its 90 degrees alongside the nostril. i put mine thru, then you just flick the long piece and it slips thru like a hoop and i spin it straight up and out of sight. there's no issues being in the way for anything. so a nose clip wouldnt bother it at all. hope that helps.
I know what you're talking about, my friend does that with hers. I actually went to get a different color stud and the guy I went to charged me $15 for a corkscrew stud that I couldn't figure out how to get in. I'll see if I can get a bent one though. I honestly forgot about those kind.
corkscrews ie: fishtail studs are kind of a pain in the butt to get in if you aren't used to it. that's why until fairly recently the rule was always suggested to have your nose pierced on the side in which you are dominantly handed. because if you are right handed and putting a corkscrew into the left...good luck. but for some reason that i don't understand....people have stopped following this...and piercer's don't educate anymore on anything ever. it's kind of sad. but in any case, i don't think those types will help to not poke you in the septum. i haven't worn them in a good 10 years, but i remember one time i plugged my nose and it stabbed me so hard it made my nose bleed where it stabbed into.
It is unpleasant, to be sure. It might take few tries before you allow yourself to do it. Usually, by the third time, you will be fairly desensitized. Repeating the technique each session helps. I wouldn't call it painful, but chlorine may cause a slight burning sensation the first time.
Maybe I should demonstrate it sometime.
Isn't that a good way to get a sinus infection? O_o A few times I was swimming and I was having trouble even going under without getting water up my nose, and it happened so many times my sinuses hurt and felt raw. I didn't get an infection, but I wasn't meaning to let the water up in there either. Even doing sinus rinses (like the netti pot) too often can cause sinus infections.
I can keep water out of my nose pretty easily, but i have the problem when i do a somersault underwater that my ears pop. you know the kind of off balance feeling where one ear is clear and the other is fuzzy? its very distracting when your trying to swim, does anyone have any solutions?
oh, and backwards somersaults are better if you dont want to get water in your nose
hmm...i noticed today i was naturally doing this. my husband and friend who owned the pool was popping up out of the water blowing water and snot all over and coughing...which is gross....i would come up highly uncomfortable from trying to do this or that and slowlyswim over to the side of the pool and just relax my nose muscles (i guess?) and all the water that had went in while under would just run out onto the wan below. it wasn't in any way fun or comfortable...but i don't think i actually swallowed or inhaled any water the entire day.
still don't want it going into my nose at all. it made things very difficult to try and attempt tricks when every time i leaned back, water poured in. ie: bubble rings. i can't blow bubble rings with bubbles coming out of my nose. then you cant see what's going on. or posing bubbleless for the camera. i get zero water up my nose while swimming or rolling or flipping even, which i guess other people have problems with. mine is the second i STOP blowing air out of my nose. then the water just comes right in. is that something you just kind of have to get used to? or can you prevent that altother without nose plugs?
I find that clear nose plugs are useful. they are so descret and keep water out of your nose
"Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward."
I think I will try Drowning's technic... I've already begun to support some water in my nose (but not a lot) to be able to be at the bottom of the pool and stay on my back to do bubble circles, but when I come out of water, it really hurts my nose and I need to sneeze two or three times (very noisely) so it's not really...hum, mer-seemly X)
I've found myself becoming able to tolerate the sting pretty well...except for the need to sneeze several times... My problem now is that some water stays on top of my soft palate (I guess) and tends to drain down my throat just when I'm trying to breathe. So I end up coughing and swallowing water a lot, not badly, just every time I come out of the water. XP
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