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.
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.
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.
Try lightly biting on the tip of your tongue when you feel the urge, it often goes away.
That does sound like a good way to make the tip of your tongue go away.
Breathe out before the sneeze. It will be much less powerful when you aren’t squeezing your maximum lung capacity out through your nose and mouth.
Makes sense. Gonna try this the next time…
Edit : Just sneezed. There’s a problem. Just as I’m about to sneeze I breath in. I’ll need to use a lot of force in a short time to exhale any air. Am I doing it wrong?
I don’t exhale, rather I just close off my airway to stop the big inhale. It sounds super uncomfortable to try exhaling at that point, but with some practice I have been able to stop the inhale and that mutes the sneeze considerably. Also, I can plug my nose when I feel it start to tickle and stop the sneeze entirely.
Thats a real pro tip right here Been doing it like that for years and I am a full time allergician
Wow, didn’t know you could graduate as an Allergician! Nature is amazing 🤣
And this won’t rip my diaphragm?
That’s interesting. Never heard of this before. Gonna see if I’m actually able to next time I need to sneeze. I almost feel like the deep inhale before a sneeze is involuntary but we’ll see…
I sneeze loudly, and I’m pretty sure there is zero need to vocalize while sneezing. But I don’t do it often enough to remember to practice reducing or eliminating vocalization, so it never changes.
Do you at least sneeze in your arm fold? :P
Yeah, I do the Dracula
Never heard that name for it. But that’s perfect!
It’s in and its gotta come out
A friend cracked a
rubrib by sneezing…Is that slang for masturbation?
I usually warn people that I’m about to sneeze so they’re not shocked/surprised/scared.
Let it out with pride! Shock everyone out of their state of serenity.
I do it very loud, but dry.
I have never found a way to tame it. I guess that’s because I have never tried to :)
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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.
Sneeze into the fold of your elbow, instead of spraying around the room
This, or bicep or forearm if you’re like me and dont want extra germs developing in that elbow fold
We get it. You work out.
Lol, you’re right, I do, but I think I sneezed on my bicep/forearm before I started working out😆
Rookie. Sneeze into the back of your knee, then we can talk
I sneeze directly into the back of my head
Is it possible to learn this power?
Never forget about your secondary armpit; the elbowpitfold.
How the fuck isn‘t everyone thaught this?
Are you saying you haven’t taught this to everyone yet?
they’ve been slacking
That’s a good suggestion as well.
No, it sounds like a fucking bark and suppressing it just leaves me uncomfortable
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 ↩︎
