OK, I vote the media stops showing the Cotton Tipped Stick up the nose!

[mysteryowl]

YUK! I have seen it so many times. Enough with the stick up the nose pictures!

[BusyBeingBest]

1. Yeah. I don't have any symptoms but that

swab going up the snoot and deep into the brain would give me pause about getting tested, frankly.

[Caliman73]

3. The testing facilities in our area aren't doing that anymore.

They are doing mid sinus swabs now. I got tested twice in the past couple of months because I work with a vulnerable population. First time it was the back of the sinus (AKA poking your brain through your nose) that did hurt, but it was fairly short duration. Second time, I was preparing for it, but the PA that administered the test said, "We don't do that. We are doing mid sinus now. Good news, no more poking your brain, bad news, it is both nostrils now." So, I got both nostrils swabbed at the mid sinus. It was unpleasant but not as bad as the first test.

[BusyBeingBest]

4. Well, that's a little better than the brain probe, I guess.

[MuseRider]

6. That is good to know.

I had it done a few months ago and went into it after the flu swabs in December thinking that this was the same and everyone else was a baby. I now consider myself Queen Baby after that. My husband who is a retired physician sitting next to me in the car gasped when the nurse did the final push to the end.

[doc03]

2. I think there are other tests but I am not volunteering for that one unless I

strongly believe I am sick.

[cayugafalls]

5. Nose doesn't bother me, if they start asking to drop your trousers and bend over, I'm gone.