how come if your left nose is plugged and you turn to lay on your right side your left nose unplugs? (and vice versa)

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Edit: y’all, didn’t you know we have two noses and one nostril sheesh 🤧

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Anonymous 0 Comments

This is something that use to plague me when I was a kid. Whatever side I laid on would get stopped up. I’d turn over to the other side and the stopped up side would clear but then the other side would get stopped up. So I would have to time it so that the stopped up side would clear and then roll to laying on my back before the other side got stopped up.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It does seem like I have 2 noses. I have no idea, my nose is not plugged up at all, but for all my life my left nostril does nothing and only my right breathes in and out. I just tested it right now, put my finger under my left nostril and breathed heavily…. nothing at all. Put my finger under my right nostril and breathed heavily, totally could feel it.

I mentioned it to my doctor before and he said that doesnt make any sense, so I shut up thinking I was stupid.

But really, my ENTIRE life I remember this. Only 1 nostril will work, and its always only the right one. Makes no sense. I do have only 1 lung, but seriously, each nostril doesnt go to a single individual lung, right? Me having only 1 lung cant possibly cause only one nostril to work? Can it….?

I am still perplexed.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I used to have this issue, along with migraines and bowel irritability. Then I realized one day that I’m lactose intolerant. Started drinking lactose free milk and my sinus problems are gone along with the other issues. It is so nice to not have migraines any more! And sinus problems! And bowel problems!

Anonymous 0 Comments

How many noses do you have? I only have the one.

Anonymous 0 Comments

If you look at the biological making of the right notrifical of the nose, you will begin to realize it is a beautiful specimen. Firstly, the angular torsion of the right notrifical is perpendicular to the solar system’s heatwave… I HAVE NO IDEA TO BE HONEST!

Anonymous 0 Comments

Wait…you all have 2 noses?

Anonymous 0 Comments

ELI5: how is life with a right nose and left nose?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Uhhhhh I never knew….this works???

Anonymous 0 Comments

your body does this normally all day long. It alternates nostrils to give the other one a break.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Also why does this reverse during orgasm (the side facing down unblocks)?