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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/ContributionNo2796 on 2025-10-20 05:41:19+00:00.
My whole family has gotten sick over the last two weeks and i am the last to catch and recover from it. One of those illnesses that makes you keep tissues always at the ready. So after a couple days of wiping my nose it starts getting really chapped. My lips dont feel great either. So i go and grab some vaseline. I have a big tub in by medicine cabinet.
A couple more days go by and im occasionally rubbing vaseline on my lips and nose, though not too often because i know my skin needs to breathe too. But today i start noticing my nose is getting more sore not less. Not too concerned because im still pretty sick. But today i went through less tissues than ever and my nose is still getting worse. After dinner im touching it and it feels a little swollen with a bump or two.
Then it dawns on my. Oh no. The vaseline. Ive been using it for months. So has my daughter. We use it most often when we have chapped lips. And we both get cold sores. I personally dont use vaseline when i know i have a cold sore, but i cant always tell right away, and i have no idea how careful my daughter is.
I go to check in the bathroom mirror and unless i am mistaken i indeed have a cold sore forming on my nose.
Why me?
I cry to the sky
Tldr: used vaseline on my chapped nose that likely had been used during a cold sore outbreak spreading the virus to my nose.