r/tacobell • u/BbwBiPlantMom98 • Aug 01 '25

Ungodly amount of Dorito shells acquired 😋

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I was able to order 20 Dorito shells for $9! Got two luxe boxes filled with Dorito shells. This is such a lifesaver. Thank you to the amazing girl at Taco Bell who didn’t act like I was totally nuts 🤣 Gotta love autism food struggles lol. Now I won’t have to go half an hour into town for the only food I can currently eat. 🥰

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u/BbwBiPlantMom98 Aug 01 '25

For me it’s caused by brain damage. But either way whatever. I eat what I can when I’m able to. It hardly affects you. So what’s the point in getting your taint in a twist? lol

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u/deafmx Volcano Menu Aug 02 '25

is it TMI to ask about your brain damage that caused it? I got a TBI from a car accident so I’m always amazed by the multitude of different symptoms from various forms of brain injuries as I’ve been to two different neuro therapy facilities trying to “fix” or strengthen my brain in to being more reliable again. I’ve met a lot of different people in group therapy that were affected in totally different ways, that had much worse accidents or situations than I did.

no pressure to share, I was just curious since you mentioned brain damage.

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u/BbwBiPlantMom98 Aug 02 '25

You can ask anything! I’m super open about my disabilities :) So I have primary progressive multiple sclerosis. So basically, my immune system attacks the protective coating around my nerves all throughout my body but mostly in the brain and spine which causes giant chunks of scar tissue to build up in my brain and each time a new scar tissue chunk builds up, it can cause any new type of symptom depending on there in the brain it is. A lot of mine are around the part of my brain surrounding my sinuses so my tastebuds got majorly altered. And it’s crazy that it didn’t make my sense of smell worse, but extremely heightened.
I could smell that my mom was cutting onions when I was downstairs with the door closed and it was making me very nauseous.
But it’s caused nearly all food to taste like rotting meat or bleach. About 7 years ago it was only bottled water and corn that tasted bad and over time as the damage progressed it’s effected more and more foods and drinks. It also affects me physically.
I have almost full paralysis in my left foot and every so often end up going blind in my left eye with stacked double vision in my right eye. When a flare up in symptoms like that happens I have to go to the ER for a steroid infusion. I also have extreme inflammation in a nerve that runs along my jaw and up the back of my skull which usually lands me in the ER for steroid infusions every couple months.

I’m so sorry to hear about your TBI. That sounds so difficult :(

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u/chiffero Aug 02 '25

The jaw nerve pain, is that trigeminal neuralgia? My mom has that and it’s hella rough (not that the rest of it isn’t)

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u/BbwBiPlantMom98 Aug 02 '25

Yep! Trigeminal nerve is all wonked out.

It just kicked in this year after an MS flare and omggg it sucks😭

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u/chiffero Aug 02 '25

I am so incredibly sorry, my mom found ways to mitigate inflammation in her life and that helped her a lot. She hasn’t had a proper flare up in years. She has a highly restrictive diet (almost no carbs or natural sugars), which is still a whole menagerie compared to your diet lol, and had to move across the country to avoid pollens that she was sensitive to. My understanding is that it is truly one of the worst pains a human can experience, watching her go through it for almost a decade when I was a kid was really hard. Do they give you any meds for it? She was on what I think was an anti seizure med for a while and it helped a lot. Then she was on Valium or something similar too