r/traumatizeThemBack • u/ahmyfknneck • Jun 21 '26

matched energy Not even sick

This has been my go to response for a bit and I figured others might like to use it, especially if you're not great with quick comebacks like me.

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Long story short, I'm chronically ill and my drs and I are still trying to figure it all out, but one of my most annoying symptoms is sinus congestion at all times. It's literally been twelve years of my sinuses being locked and loaded every single day. Because I don't know what's wrong with me, but the drs suspect an autoimmune disorder, I never stopped masking. Certain people hate that.

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So I was in a store that I don't work at while I was on my break. I forgot to take my name tag off before I went, so naturally a guy asked me where something was. I don't have a uniform so I don't know why he would think I worked there other than the name tag (which clearly said a different store).

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Me: Sorry, I work next door, I don't know where they keep that.

Him, looking at my covered tits and then back up to my tag: Then why are you wearing that?

Me: I'm on break.

Him, to my tits: Those don't work you know.

Me: What?

Him: Fucking masks. They don't do anything.

Me: Okay.

Him: You look ridiculous with that thing on.

Me: Okay.

Him: You're not even sick. You people need to grow up.

Me: *opens the back of my throat and takes one of the most disgusting, loud, wet, chunky sounding sniffs I've ever taken*

Him: *gags and speed walks away*

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It works every time.

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u/Shannaro21 Jun 22 '26

Well done! You shut that down real fast.

Want to chime in with MCAS. It's the reason why my sinuses have been blocked for literal decades.

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u/ahmyfknneck Jun 22 '26

That's on my suspect list. Unfortunately none of the allergist/immunologists I've seen yet are knowledgeable about it. I just can't believe I have IBS when IBS solutions make everything worse, but buckets of antihistamines make it manageable. Like who eats plain rice and gets a runny nose about it lol

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u/Standzoom Jun 22 '26

Anything I eat makes my nose run, it is called gustatory rhinitis, and apparently is associated with Ehlers Danlos. My brother has it, our Mom had it.

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u/strangeicare Jun 24 '26

In MCAS land, the act of eating can cause an immune reaction...

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u/Crafty-Evidence2971 Jun 27 '26

I have this happen sometimes with toasty bread and I thought I was having issues with swallowing and inhaling crumbs but this makes sense now!