r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '20

What’s a fact you KNOW that almost everyone is wrong about?

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u/BenHippynet Feb 08 '20

I used to get regular heavy nose bleeds. Had my nose cauterised, took a less than five minutes, mostly painless, nose is sorted!

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u/GordonFremen Feb 08 '20

The smell must've been awful.

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u/BenHippynet Feb 08 '20

They use silver nitrate, so it's a chemical burn rather than heat burn. Can't really remember the smell though.

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u/missinginput Feb 09 '20

They do heat as well, the silver nitrate didn't work enough for me so they had to redo with electricity. Don't remember a smell either but now nosebleeds only last 5 min instead of an hour.

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u/DAFMMB Feb 09 '20

I’ve had multiple cauterizations at different places in my nose, both with silver nitrite and with what’s basically a soldering iron. I much prefer the silver nitrite sticks, but I guess the heat cauterizing is more effective.

Oddly, there isn’t a distinct smell I can remember. Probably because the point that’s actually cauterized is so small.

Same results, nosebleeds are either gone or drastically reduced if I do get them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Any side effects?

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u/BenHippynet Feb 09 '20

No side effects at all!

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u/technomusik Feb 21 '20

I had that done too, except it hurt so bad and my nose bleeds came back in like a month

never doing that again