My house is from the 1950s and as such, some of the plumbing sometimes sags a bit. In the summertime especially sometimes SOMETHING in my bathroom smells of sewage. Sometimes it’s my sink, sometimes the shower, sometimes the toilet.
A few weeks ago I had some BAD sinus drainage so I took some peppermint oil into the shower to help me breathe again, and it’s kind of stayed there since.
On to today’s fuck up. Needed a shower, but the bathroom funk smell was back, so I poured four or five drops of peppermint oil into each drain. Then I closed my toilet and set my clean clothes on it for my shower.
I didn’t open the toilet up again for hours. I forgot the peppermint oil was in there. I went in to take my pre bedtime shit, and the oil had arrosolized. My dearest Redditor, I don’t know how familiar you are with peppermint oil. It covers up unwanted smells very well, but it’s best used in very small doses. In a diffuser. Maybe in a different room. That shit will fuck up a mucous membrane, hence me using it to try to clear my sinuses in the shower. It is downright painful on any sort of sensitive skin, like an ass. Or vagina.
It hurts to walk. Or to exist. But hey, at least it doesn’t smell like poop.
TL;DR; peppermint gas bombed my ass and vag, and now existence is miserable until my nethers fully air out.
Update: Slept all night and there’s still some residual burning, but it’s far more manageable. Lesson learned.
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That’s seriously rough. Im so sorry
😄 I am so sorry this happened, but I also find it hysterical! I’ve used peppermint oil for many years to deal with pain and have made some similar discoveries. Hope your sitting parts get to feeling better soon!
I had a coworker explaining that during a medical situation in the hospital, she couldn’t relieve her full bladder. It was getting significantly painful for her. If I remember correctly it had been obscenely long since she had.
Some older Dr said wait a minute. Left and came back with peppermint oil. Dropped a few drops in the bedpan and told her to sit.
The floodgates opened!
I don’t remember all the details, and it was a side story in itself. But you just reminded me of it.
I once got pretty sick while my girlfriend was on a work trip and decided to try to purge my sinuses. I put some obsurd amount of peppermint and spearmint oils (easily 20+ drops each) into my diffuser around midnight, turned it on, closed my bedroom door, and went to sleep. I woke up at around 2 and OH BOY. My sinuses were totally clear, however, my nose, throat, and lungs BURNED. I couldn’t open my eyes, as the air was so minty it burned through my eyelids. I wanted nothing more than sleep, but I had to get out of whatever ring of hell I had summoned into my living space. I hellen-kellered my way through the room (having to walk past the minty volcano that used to be my diffuser) until I found the door handle and burst into the hallway. I was coughing and wheezing enough to wake my entire apartment complex. Once I regained enough of my senses, I held my breath long enough to turn off the diffuser and run back out of the room. Leaving the door open, I went and laid on the couch for an hour or so, thinking my room would air out. It did not. I slept on the couch. The air was still minty when my girlfriend got home two days later.
TL;DR: Turned the air in my bedroom into icy-hot with peppermint oil. 0/10, do not recommend.
Ooof I’ve done this with eucalyptus, it’s painful as hell I’m so sorry op!
I did not know that, I hope you’re okay by now.
So almost the exact same thing happened to me! You know those poopouri drops? I had already sat down but I thought maybe I should spray some in the toilet and so I did while I was still seated and accidentally sprayed my lady parts! The screaming and burning that was coming out of me was something I didn’t even recognize. I burned for two days!
When my son was very young, he got into my peppermint oil and rubbed it all over his penis. It took me a bit to figure out why he was crying but since he smelled so delicious, I quickly figured it out and used the one method that will cut the pain of an oil and that is rubbing olive oil on the affected area . It was awkward but effective and he has never touched my oils again.
Did you really lay your clean clothes out on the toilet or did I misunderstand
Also sorry for your butt burns that sounds like hell
This isn’t the question you asks but check there isn’t a sewage smell coming from your loft. Theres a filter up there meant to get sewage gas out of the house. Once it packs in everything gets stinky. Only saying because it took two solid years to get that sorted in my house
There’s a brand of sanitary pads that infuses them with peppermint (Honeypot). My friend liked them and gave me a pack. I put one on, and a few minutes in it felt tingly, but holy hell by 10 minutes that tingle became a BURN and I had to rip them off and take a shower. Thank GOD I was at home and not in the office or something. I can’t understand how anyone can stand them, I gave the rest of the pack back to my friend.
Hope your bits get back to normal soon!
We were once having a problem with pantry moths, so it put some peppermint oil on cotton balls and stuck them in my kitchen cabinets, because I read that it deters them. My family didn’t enjoy the resulting peppermint flavored cereal and saltines.
Side bonus: peppermint oil is an excellent rodent and stink bug repellent. So, you won’t have a mice or stink bug problem for a while.
We have a central air/oil furnace
My partner decided it would be nice to put peppermint oil in one of the vents
All you could smell for 2 days
Cracking up reading this lmaoooo
Probably have a clogged sewer vent pipe. Call a plumber to check it because sewer gas can cause health problems. Also, you can try washing your lady parts with milk to carry away the oil, then soap and water. Good luck.
My mom used to put 1 drop of peppermint oil in her bath and one day I decided I wanted to try, but put like 5 drops. Once I got in and sat down my ENTIRE butt felt frozen. It was the most bizarre feeling.
This reminded me of the times I have used Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint soap to immediate regret (would not reccomend)
I once spilled pure peppermint oil directly on my forearm as a teenager & basically gave myself a chemical burn
Peppermint oil is one that anyone can easily eff up with. I put it straight on a bad sunburn one time, basically sending myself into shock. Oops.
The sewage smell could be because of a bad wax ring under the toilet. The gasses can seep out and into the sink and shower. It’s not a difficult fix.
As for yoyr ladybits, I’m so sorry!
When I was pregnant, I came down with a fever. I’m allergic to Tylenol, the only OTC medication you can take for this sort of thing while pregnant, so I thought I’d break my fever and ease my aching body by running a tepid bath and adding a couple cooling drops of peppermint oil to the water. Well… ten seconds after coming out of the water, I definitely didn’t care about the fever anymore.