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Texas Girl Sneezes 12,000 Times Per Day -- And Doctors Don't Know What's Wrong

She had to stop going to school and playing clarinet.


A Texas girl started sneezing almost a month ago and hasn’t stopped since. She estimates sneezing about 12,000 sneezes per day and had to stop going to school and playing the clarinet.

And doctors have no idea what is going on.

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“It just started in little spurts. I just started sneezing. I thought it was like, ‘Oh I’m just allergic to something,’” Katelyn Thornley, the 12-year-old girl from Angleton, Texas, told CBSDFW.com. “I’m constantly in pain with my abdomen, my legs are hurting because I’ve been weak and I can barely eat.”

As you can see in the video above, the sneezes come in spurts. They only stop when she goes to sleep — and even for that, she has to take Benadryl and listen to the Beatles, she told CBSDFW.com.

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Six doctors have seen her, and they’ve ruled out allergies and a virus, according to CBSDFW.com.

Otherwise, nobody has figured out what’s wrong.

“Sometimes I wish I could leave my body for a little while so I could watch myself sleep,” Thornley told the TV station, “Because even in my dreams, I sneeze.”

Check out the full video above to hear from Thornley.

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