Worth a try.
Posted on 10/06/2015 10:31:21 AM PDT by simpson96
SOUTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Katelyn Thornley, 12, started sneezing incessantly about a month ago – and hasn’t stopped.
Thornley said she sneezes up to 20 times a minute. That’s 12,000 a day. She can no longer attend school or play her clarinet in the school’s band.
“”It just started in little spurts. I just started sneezing. I thought it was like, oh I’m just allergic to something,” she said. “I’m constantly in pain with my abdomen, my legs are hurting because I’ve been weak and I can barely eat.”
Her sneezing ‘affliction’ came out of nowhere, according to Thornley. She’s seen six doctors so far and they have already ruled out allergies. They said she doesn’t have a virus and have no idea what’s causing the issue.
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Poor, kid. Hope they can cure her...or else, they’ll go away on their own.
Some sort of auto-immune disorder if I were to hazard a guess.
I occasionally get sneezing fits where I will do easily a hundred in a row. It seems to be triggered by some little particle lodging itself in just the right spot, as I have learned the only way to stop it is to sneeze through the nose forcefully.
I have heard and read about people who actually die after sneezing for long periods of time.
I would normally try to be impish and joke about this, but this is no joke. When she stops sneezing, then we can make jokes about it.
There’s a Japanese poem, the gist of which is that the author hopes for the day he can look back on the misery he is experiencing now, and think of it fondly. That would be my hope for this girl.
Tourettes?
Worth a try.
If she does not sneeze when she is asleep, it is psychosomatic.
The person in the next cube over at work easily exceeds that.
Or, her sneezing is photic, which would also not occur during sleep (eyes closed, dark environment).
“The sneezing only stops when Katelyn falls asleep and she has to take Benadryl and listen to the Beatles for that to happen.”
Poor kid.
Fuzzy math. 20 times per minute is not 12,000 per day. It’s 28,800.
Which album???
“Fuzzy math. 20 times per minute is not 12,000 per day. It’s 28,800.”
You are assuming she doesn’t sleep.
“...Which album??? ...”
Maybe something from Sgt. Pepper’s. Or “Ha, Chood” from the White Album I would think.
I can think of only two remedies, assuming this isn’t something to do with mold or an acute medical issue.
One is to meditate. Calm down, chill out. Sometimes works for me if I sneeze 20 or 30 times.
Second is my Dad’s cure-all. Dunk your head in a bucket of water twice and pull it out once. Guaranteed to work.
I have MS, and I have a lesion in my brainstem...weird symptoms can be caused by lesions in the brainstem, especially autonomic functions; breathing, heart rate, bp, vomiting, hiccups,sneezing, etc.
I’m not suggesting she has MS, just saying that would seem a logical place to look and see if anything were going on in that area of the brain.
I just googled and sneezing is triggered by the 5th cranial nerve...if I were a doctor, which I’m not, I’d be looking at an MRI of her brainstem.
I can see her sneezing a lot, but sneezing every 7.2 seconds she would asphyxiate. That’s if she sneezes during her sleep. According to the article she does sleep, so that means she is sneezing every 3.6 seconds.
86,400 seconds in a day. 12,000 sneezes. I call bullpuppy!
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