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My nose always drips. Like a runny nose, and if not running nose, just wet inside where I feel like I have to blow my nose or wipe inside it with a tissue. I keep tissues in my pockets ALL THE TIME!! I’m SO TIRED OF THIS! Over 30 years of this! Doctors suggest the AYR gel to keep inside of nose ‘moist’ when they hear the word ‘scab’ thinking the inside of my nose is dry. Ugh. I don’t need that gel. My nose is ALWAYS MOIST INSIDE. In the morning I was crusty scabs inside my nose. It’s like my cartilage leaks fluid and I wipe it away all day. Like a runny nose. As night it crusts up like a crusty, crystally scab. It is dry then!! Too dry. Where when I breathe, I can HEAR the dryness of my inhaled nose breath like it’s a different SOUND from when the scab has been picked away. I feel like everyone around me can hear the dry inhale of my nose breath if I leave the scab. Like a flute sound - not so dramatic … but we all know everything about our own bodies. This sound of inhale via my nose when the scabs ARE THERE is different. It’s uncomfortable, it’s dry, … I can FEEL the scabs there, in the way - like I have a booger or something. All I want to do is get it out! Then it’s out, my nose bleeds, it’s painful / because my nose is constantly going from phase ONE: moist, obnoxious drippy/runny nose , blowing/wiping nose to phase TWO: dry, scabby, ‘there’s something in my nose - get it out!’ I’ve tried AYR gel, I’ve tried Neo Sporin ointment, I’ve tried herbal teas on a cu-tip to try to heal it or make it feel better,,, I’ve thought maybe it’s a staph infection, so I’ve tried crushed antibiotics with water on a cu-tip on the raw, open skin when scab is gone. I’ve tried everything! I need a nose cartilage TRANSPLANT!! Anyone have this same thing? HELP!! I’m going to just cut my damn nose OFF!!

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Welcome @mookmook, I know it's pretty miserable when you can't breathe well and you constantly have the feeling something's plugging up your nose. I was having a similar issue which was compounded for me due to also having to use a CPAP machine at night. I posted what helped me in another discussion Nasal passage blocked - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/603496/

Have you seen an ENT specialist to discuss treatment options?

I too have started with this experience about two weeks now. It is bizarre. Here I am searching for info and common sufferers. It’s an annoying thing to deal with and feels like something (scabs) are “growing” in my left nostril. Maybe I have a bleeding capillary? I do have Psoriosis, so initially thought it sprang up in my nose. As it pops up in random places due to stress. I just need to have it checked out. May try the rosewater/glycerin .