• I didn't think you wew having a dig. Was also worried that I might put people off!

    I have a particular discomfort with things being inserterted into my nose because I had some reconstructive surgery after a nasty nose and skull fracture when I was a kid. Had my sinuses stuffed with wadding at some point after the op to put a plate in. Not a great experience. I've had a problem with things going near or into my nose ever since.

  • Yeesh, I feel for you.

    Not on that level, but 25 years of rugby have left me with a deviated septum (still model pretty on the outside though, natch). I can get my finger way further up my left nostril than my right. So swabbing the left was easy, the right not so much.

  • In Belfast you have to do it yourself, they don't swab you.

    So if that is an option, maybe that suits you better? That way you've more control over timing etc.

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