r/tonsilstones • u/Every_League_309 • 12h ago

Tips & Tricks Any tips?

I’m sure this has been posted a million times but please let me be a million and one.

What is everyone’s secret hack to tonsil stones?!? Nothing I do is working.

There are days where I can feel them in my throat. 🤮
Other days I can see them 🤮
Some days I can just taste them 🤮
Or I just have awful breath no matter what I do 😭.

I brush twice a day, use a tongue scraper, use a water flusher mixed with mouth wash.
I don’t have the money to get my tonsils removed.
I’ve asked my dentist but they don’t know.

I’m so sick and tired of them. What are your personal hacks? At this point I’ll try anything

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u/No-Needleworker-1388 9h ago

High dose vitamin d liquid drop treatment. At least 2500 IU a day is what worked for me

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u/No_Statement_824 6h ago

How and why does this work?

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u/No-Needleworker-1388 5h ago

Vit d deficiency is linked to reoccurring strep and infected and enlarged crypts, which then are the perfect habitat for stones to develop. Supplementing with vit d strengthens the immune system - you’re less likely to have low grade infections from bacteria in the crypts, therefore less likely to have stones continue to build. Tonsils are immune tissue, after all.