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.
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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.
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.
Elbow is most hygienic. That said someone tell me how to sneeze when I’ve thrown out my back 😭
Unfortunately painfully is the only method I’ve found.
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”.
I never thought about sneezing ‘culture’ or it being learned behavior, but my neighbor is deaf from birth and he sneezes VERY different from what I know and hear around me, so that got me wondering.
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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EVERYONE STOP TRYING TO HOLD IT IN!!! The scream is because you’re using your vocal cords. Stop using them when you sneeze.
For example: -Say “ahhhhh” like a doctor is checking your throat. You’re using your vocal chords while exhaling
-Okay now just exhale. Now you’re NOT using your vocal cords.
That is the difference between using your vocal cords and not using them. You just have to not use your vocal cords when you sneeze to stop yelling.
I find it insane that people somehow think they have to make that noise when they sneeze. It’s totally a learned and unnecessary behaviour. People who are born deaf don’t ever make that noise when they sneeze.
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.
The way you sneeze is learned, so just make a conscious effort to change.
Also cover with your arm so you’re sneezing into your elbow.
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 ↩︎
I usually warn people that I’m about to sneeze so they’re not shocked/surprised/scared.
No, it sounds like a fucking bark and suppressing it just leaves me uncomfortable
A friend cracked a
rubrib by sneezing…Is that slang for masturbation?
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 punch the tip of my nose and pull up a slight bit. Seems to help.
I punch the tip of my nose and pull up a slight bit. Seems to help.
Tried your suggestion, and I misjudged my punch and broke my nose.
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Lul I meant pinch. F my friend.
Don’t worry, it made me forget all about my sneeze, so I guess it was successful.
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.
