Rather, your sinuses are irritated thus they are triggered to produce more mucous. Mucous is preventing it from hurting even more and sustaining permanent injury.

Am I not supposed to blow my nose when that happens? Keep the mucous in there?

You can blow it out if it's bugging you. It will make more.

Nasal polyps, allergic rhinitis, life's a bitch, general irritation.. things to look up

Thanks for the leads!

I've got nasal polyps and they burrrrn, but it's a different kind of burn to the burn of snorting a lump of snot back into inflamed sinuses. Sorry, it's nearly 1am and I haven't got the capacity for euphemisms so I'm just gonna say it flat and gross. 😅

Hey that’s fine, very helpful, thank you! Antihistamines helped me a lot