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“Didn’t Even Know How To Respond”: 50 Chronic Patients Share The Dumbest ‘Cures’ They Heard
Chronic diseases are no joke. Anyone who has ever had to deal with long-lasting illnesses knows how much it impacts their daily life. Your physical, mental, and emotional health all suffer. But there’s an empathy gap between you and others. Some folks don’t quite understand how serious your condition can be.
Chronic patients took to a brutally honest AskReddit thread to vent. They revealed the most ridiculous, absurd, and delulu pieces of advice they’ve ever gotten from people that were supposed to ‘cure’ their debilitating illnesses. Think lemon for migraines and meditation for epilepsy are bad enough? Well, they’re just the tip of the iceberg of awfulness.
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#1
I have osteoarthritis in the lumbar region of my spine. The amount of people telling me I should see a chiropractor and get "adjusted" is crazy.
I mean, those vertebrae look like a freaking crown in x-ray and you want me to let someone try to crack my back?
I'll stick with my physical therapy thank you.
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#2
I have an autoimmune disease that causes severe fatigue and widespread pain, as well as a spinal deformity that causes chronic back pain. The amount of times I've been told to try yoga is staggering. When I was so depressed I couldn't even shower, I was told it was all in my head and I just needed to go for a walk. Everybody acts like these things can just be willed away by meditation and positive thinking.
#3
I have Type 1 diabetes. I've been recommended all sorts of things, including green juice mix, pink(?) Smoothies, "gut health" vitamins, and what have you.
No, I have never considered any of them. The only thing that works--that has ever worked in the 35 years of my disease,--is daily insulin injections (I'm on a pump now that tests my blood glucose and auto-injects insulin when I need it. That's pretty snazzy tech.).
The CDC explains that chronic diseases are the leading cause of illness, disability, and loss of life in the United States. Some of the most widespread chronic diseases include heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
Not only are they the leading causes of loss of life and disability, but they also cost the US $4.9 trillion in healthcare costs… every single year.
Most chronic diseases are caused by a very short list of risk factors. These include:
- Smoking
- Poor nutrition
- Physical inactivity
- Excessive alcohol use
#4
Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
"Calm down. There's nothing to worry about!"
Why didn't I think of that? /sarcasm.
Moving Enigma 2 months ago
Ah yes, coupled with "cheer up and think happy thoughts" - guaranteed to work.
#5
Don't know how much it counts as an illness, but I have insomnia that sometimes nothing can help. The amount of meds I take daily are enough that most people would be incapacitated, and still sometimes ill try taking benadryl with it cause I can't sleep.
The number of people who find this out and ask if I've tried melatonin is insane, I'd say 99% of people ask me that, very seriously.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 2 months ago
Insomnia sucks. No sleep meds work for me, melatonin doesn't help... it's really awful. Most sleep meds I feel nothing, some make me ridiculously tired but don't put me to sleep, which makes it even worse, because I'm laying there absolutely miserable but unable to fall asleep.
#6
Not me, but an ex-classmate of mine told me that his pastor was taking his own son to South America for some shaman to exorcise the son of autism. Classmate was soliciting classmates for money. Also, the child developed autism from vaccines, of course. I shot that conversation down fast; I worked for our local health department's vaccine clinics and he knew that.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
I wonder what caused the autism, did the mother take Tylenol at all whilst pregnant?
Smoking, for instance, is the cause for more than 480,000 Americans losing their lives every year, the CDC warns. Furthermore, a whopping 16 million US citizens live with diseases caused by smoking. Such diseases include cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The latter includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Excessive alcohol use, meanwhile, leads to serious issues with mental health, memory, and learning. On the physical side of things, you have a greater risk of developing heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, liver disease, and certain cancers.
As for poor nutrition and physical inactivity, you increase the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, depression, and some types of cancer.
#7
When my kid got Type 1 Diabetes, an in-law who had lost a lot of weight on her own sent me a message about how the right diet cures diabetes and I just need to change her diet. I had to educate her about the difference between Type 2 and the autoimmune disease called Type 1.
A second relative said something really similar, saying that my kid wouldn’t need insulin anymore if she just followed this health food book he gave me. I also had to educate him about T2D vs T1D.
#8
My MIL told me my son's autism was my fault for teaching him his letters "and stuff" too early. A random customer when I worked at Borders told me I could cure him if I made him take baths in a certain kind of clay.
We never did any of that. Autistic or not my son is a wonderful, kind, smart, funny person and I wouldn't change him for the world.
#9
Cancer, twice. I had an aunt try and convince me on everything from coffee enemas to colloidal silver. She got breast cancer and tried all these remedies until it was too late and it spread to the other breast. She's now working with my oncologist.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
People familiar with Noel Edmonds will be aware he wished his cancer away. Or aliens took it. Or some other third nonsensical option.
Have you ever had a chronic illness or know someone who suffers from such a disease? What impact did it have? What are the most ridiculous suggestions for ‘cures’ that you’ve ever heard from medical amateurs who don’t quite understand how the human body works?
If you feel like sharing your story, feel free to open up in the comments section, at the very bottom of this post.
#10
Am paralyzed, was told by one of my friends parents who came to see me in the hospital that if I wanted it enough and if I thought about it hard enough I would be able to walk again. Guess I didn’t want it bc 18 years later still can’t walk lol. ( there was literally no chance of it, I have a complete injury, not just a damaged spinal cord completely crushed).
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Ugh, my super-religious aunt used to pray to God to heal my dad after my dad had fallen off of a ladder and sustained catastrophic brain damage. He was near-vegetative. There's no miracles that happen after you fracture your skull on concrete and suffer multiple hematomas/brain bleeds. After a few years, she changed her tune from "God will heal him!" to "God only gives you the burdens you can carry!" My dad is dead now, but my aunt is still insufferable.
#11
I once had someone tell me that if I went vegan, my Rheumatoid Arthritis would "go into remission." I had been vegan for about 5 years by that time.
#12
I'm celiac and I'd say 50% of the time it's brought up, I get told I should just go to Europe so I can eat gluten there. Gluten is gluten no matter where you go.
I am not going to listen to someone who has zero experience with the disease I live with.
David 2 months ago
it's called the "Vacation thesis" that when people travel on vacation they perceive their food issues as going away, and assume it is bc the good is superior where they are. However, when people move, after a while, they feel the same as they did where they were before. BTW they did studies and found people who came to the US without negative opinions of American food before, had the same effect when they came here. Its all in our heads
#13
Celery juice to cure Crohn's I was in hospital at the time waiting for surgery to remove a severely damaged part of my bowel. I didn't even consider it because 1. I absolutely hate celery, and 2. I was so sick of being sick and in pain and knew removing the culprit was going to give me that break I needed. If it took 4 biologics to achieve remission, no amount of "alternative medicine" was going to be more effective. It makes me quite angry because there are people who will be sucked in by these ridiculous promises and end up with complications, including death, that could have been avoided.
Glen Ellyn 2 months ago
Hear! Hear! Folks just do not understand that just because you can google it does not make you an expert. Sheesh!
#15
ADHD and had a fellow nurse tell me I just needed to tell myself to focus. Why didn't I think of that?! .
#16
Severe depression. The 2 most absurd "cures" recommended to me?
#1 is "Just cheer up/smile! You'll feel better!"
#2 is "Get some exercise! It'll make your depression go away!".
#17
Severe anxiety and frequent panic attacks as well as severe depression. I had a doctor tell me to stop drinking milk before bed. Apparently any other time of day was fine, but he was convinced that my problems were caused by milk before sleep. Except I wasn’t drinking milk before bed, or much any other time for that matter.
sturmwesen 2 months ago (edited)
I once had a trainer for stress and conflict management, that work payed for: not drinking milk was a gamechanger for her and her kid and I should stop drinking milk and buy her book (she told me 5 times she is not supposed to advertise her book)...edit: that was 16 hours I will never get back.total bullshitter
#18
Meditation.
I have epilepsy.
#19
GLUTEN FREE!
Gluten is so evil, did you know it causes every single problem you have, acne, dry hair, itchy eyes, seasonal allergies, period cramps, arthritis, gall bladder disease, CANCER!
All you have to do is stop eating gluten, and you'll be cured of everything!
I hear similar things about the "raw diet" too - I have a family member who was just diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, and they think they can cure it by eating raw carrots and broccoli.
David 2 months ago
Gluten is just a protein enzyme, unless you have an allergy to it or celiac's , you are fine eating it, and in fact, people who go gluten free, on average, have worse outcomes. Gluten is good for gut health and blood oxygenation. However Celiac is a disease where the body cant process it, and it can hospitalize them, so they cant eat it. Those with allergies can get reactions to it, the most common is stomach reactions, bc the same part of it that is good for gut health, gives them an allergic reaction. So if you dont have an allergy or celiac, go eat it.
#21
The advice wasn’t necessarily ridiculous on its own but it my situation it absolutely was. When I was in high school, I started sleeping 12-15 hours a day, every single day. I’d come home, go right to sleep, and wake up for school the next day. A sleep specialist with a Phd and board certification told me that I just needed a ‘better sleep schedule.’ Turns out it was a neurological disease, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
#22
Chronic migraine, was told to rub a lemon slice on my forehead.
#23
Our neighbours were told to take their daughter to a specific church to cure her Tumour 🥲.
#24
"Your pain is all in your head. You just need the willpower to rise above it!!!"
.... I have Scoliosis. I did not consider "willpower" as a more effective treatment than the back brace I was there to ask for.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
The pain my dad insisted was in my head was in my gallbladder. Pain went away when the gallbladder did.
#25
When I told my parents that I started taking antidepressants my dad suggested that I should eat one clove of raw garlic every morning instead. Didn't even know what to respond.
#26
A lady saw my insulin pump in line and proceeded to scream at me about how drinking alkaline water could cure my T1D. When ignored her she proceeded to scream *much louder* that I deserve my condition for my ignorance…okay crazy lady.
Renee Fiola-Homen 2 months ago
People are nuts! And it's always those who know nothing, zero about a person's disease. Gee, ya think they havnt tried everything under the sun?
#27
Severe depression, couple of anxiety disorders, PTSD, scar tissue on both of my ovaries, permanent injuries from a car accident....have been told by several people that getting pregnant and having a baby might just cure me!!! 🫠.
Judy Reynolds 2 months ago
Don't know about the rest of it, but having two kids did nothing for my depression. Nor did them growing up and leaving the province.
#28
I get random nosebleeds because I'm in blood thinners. Once it happened at work and wouldn't stop so my manager told me to tape a penny to my chest because copper will stop it. I did it to appease them and what do you know, it eventually stopped.
#29
Fasting, prayers, and returning to the LDS religion after leaving it in adulthood. And no, I did not consider it lol.
It didn't work for me then, so why would it work now?
#30
Watched a vegan tell someone with leukaemia they should switch to a plant based diet.
This was at a time when they were struggling with weight loss from the treatment.
Bartlet for world domination 2 months ago
Oh I know quite a few vegans who substitute carbs for proteins, and guess what.
#31
I've had an autoimmune condition since early childhood.
My mother is...... eccentric and doesn't exactly believe in modern medicine. She has suggested a wide variety of unusual things over the years, and perhaps one of her strangest suggestions was Ozone therapy.
Ozone therapy has been deemed illegal and extremely unsafe by the FDA. I responded by literally copying & pasting the verbiage from the FDA website in a message to her. Shut her up pretty quickly.
Multa Nocte (she/tiger quoll) 2 months ago
Impressed she paid attention, however. Most people just deny the facts.
#32
Eat mangos to help with my arthritis. Im severely allergic to mangos, and the person pushing this was well aware.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
Death is the ultimate cure-all, to be fair. Not that I'm encouraging it.
#33
I have severe psoriasis (hospital level). A lady once suggested I rub olive oil on it to cure it. I curtly replied that I’d just returned from Italy and that despite my best efforts, olive oil definitely wasn’t a cure for an autoimmune condition….
#34
Chronic fatigue: Got told to hold onto an electric fence so I did. Twice. Surprisingly it didn’t cure me.
#35
Someone suggested that I could cure my food allergies by going to a special clinic in California that fixes allergies with special tolerance diets. It’s really expensive and they only treat under-18s, and when I looked it up the founder was very secretive about his methods and apparently it only works for SOME people.
I did not go to the clinic. .
#36
Upon my first visit with a new GP, he told me I just needed to get my rage out and then proceeded to kick a trash can. For my crippling anxiety disorder.
Tucker Cahooter 2 months ago
OP should have kicked the GP repeatedly and say "Thank you doctor! I feel much better already!"
#37
Lime juice for Narcolepsy. Lime juice.
What are you gonna do, put it in my eyes? 🤔 That might wake me up for a while. Elaborate. Please.
Moving Enigma 2 months ago
So, I know this one.. you need to add a slice to a large Tanqueray gin and tonic :)
#38
My very first therapist told me to eat a big bowl of pasta before bed to cure me of my (lifelong) insomnia. Because carbs make you sleepy!
#39
My husband had stage four cancer. A family member told him to drink beet juice and stop chemo.
WindySwede 2 months ago
Never stop what actually works, and only drink beet juice if that ghastly thing taste good...
#40
Cutting out gluten and sugar to cure my children of their adhd. It's totally a dietary issue. You know. Also, from my ex's family: they're just normal kids! You're overreacting. It's all in your head.
Letting my child outgrow his developmental coordination disorder because, "My nephew was uncoordinated as a child, too, and it just went away when he grew up.".
#41
Ditch my prescriptions medications (one of which is a hormone my body doesn’t produce enough of) for Himalayan pink salt.
Moving Enigma 2 months ago
Rubbish, everyone knows that you need Celtic pink salt for hormone problems, Himalayan is for curing ageing lol
#42
Misdiagnosed with MS, and after 10 years of horrendously expensive, uncomfortable, daily/weekly injections, pills, infusions...found out it wasn't (instead is: Sjogren's Disease + Rheumatoid Arthritis...joy. /s)
Anyway: acquaintances, relatives, and colleagues would tell me to "eat clean", do LOTS of hot yoga (uhmm, xtra bad advice for MS, btw...), check out so-and-so celebrity vitamins (ugh), "have kids-- it will *totally cure* the MS!" and to just "will myself to good health". Riiiight.
LinkTheHylian 2 months ago
What's "hot yoga" and why does it seem more annoying than regular yoga?
#43
Genetic hypermobility disorder. A chiropractor was absolutely confident that he could fix my faulty genes with a few adjustments.
I didn't consider it because the same chiropractor had dislocated my elbow in the last session I attended. My parents made me go when I was a young teenager, but I rebelled after the elbow incident and refused to let him fix all my problems with a little joint cracking. Silly me.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
Chiropractors are not doctors. Chiropractic is a pseudoscience. It does help some people, but it's not actually "medical".
#44
I had gout since I was in my early 20s. It's not fat or alcohol but hereditary, at the time, and in good shape. My father had it, too. He sprayed WD40 on his and swore by it. I did it because it hurt so bad I figured why not. It felt better, but I think it was the cold compressed air.
Still laugh at that.
#45
Chronic depression and insomnia.
I just need to close my eyes and not think about things and I'll fall asleep!
Or I just need to accept god and not the mark of the beast and I'll be healed.
What actually helped were anti-depressants, three different ones at the same time, therapy, and two stays in a psychosomatic hospital. And meds for my endometriosis.
#46
I have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and apparently, celery juice can cure everything.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 months ago
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis here, nothing as crazy as any of these but I was once asked if I was sure it wasn’t just stress?
#47
I have a strange illness that makes doctors go "well we just don't know." One doctor told me, maybe if you believe hard enough, your symptoms will go away.
I asked my symptoms to go away but they didn't so I guess believing they could didn't work
I say doctor, but she was a newly graduated nurse practitioner who had done all her coursework on mental health and wellness... Bless her little heart.
I'm still sick, I cannot work, I have no friends anymore, my life is empty, and doctors still don't know.
#48
My best friend is a wheelchair user and gets all sorts of weirdness. The usual people praying over them and stuff, but this one guy who worked at their local supermarket in Italy got completely obsessed and tried to convince them to come to Senegal with him for an exorcism. He even took their phone out of their hands and called himself so he would have their number to keep harassing them about it, ramping up in the spring which was apparently "the best season for exorcisms".
We made a complaint to the supermarket and the next day, my friend's friend - also a wheelchair user but looks COMPLETELY different, has only one limb and is slim with long dark hair vs my friend who's super pale with short curly hair and all expected limbs accounted for, and also this other girl didn't speak a word of the language - gets pounced on in the supermarket by the manager, called into the office and they're all apologising profusely in Italian like, we're so sorry about the exorcism guy!!! And she's like..... What. And comes knocking on my friend like "wtf did you do" 😂
(We could only guess that guy decided that God's power is limited - he can make someone with two legs walk again, but he can't stretch to growing two whole new legs...).
#49
Force yourself to stay awake. I have extremely bad fatigue bc of PMDD and other issues. And exhaustion can trigger seizures. 💀.
#50
My dearly departed FiL, whom I adored, always told me to put bleach on a burn. This advice was taken under consideration, and not ever used. Lols. .
#51
I have chronic fatigue. People LOVE to tell me to "just wake up earlier". Like let me get this straight, you think my "always tired, never gets restful sleep, sleeps through alarms" disease will be cured by.... waking up earlier?
Had a legit doctor tell me at a doctor's appointment I paid for to "just go outside and look at nature" and "Try eating vegetables" to cure my fatigue. Like I hadn't gone outside or eaten a vegetable in 10 years.
Hilariously enough yoga is a real thing that can help, the experts recommend keeping a regular sleep schedule, watching your caffeine intake, and light to moderate exercise to increase stamina, and yoga fits the light to moderate exercise bit. .
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
I went to a sleep clinic/sleep study years ago and was officially diagnosed with both narcolepsy AND insomnia. My sister STILL says some of the same sh!t to me: "Just go to bed earlier!" - "Just wake up earlier and then you'll be tired at night and be able to fall asleep!" - "Just take melatonin!" She doesn't understand that I can sit down on the couch with my sewing kit to repair a hole in a cat toy, at 1pm, with all the lights on, and I will just fall asleep. I sometimes fall asleep when I sit down to eat dinner. I can't control it. I can't stop it. I can't just "go to bed earlier" either - if I go to bed at 8pm, I'll lay there awake for hours; it's not like "being in bed" is some kind of magic spell that always makes you fall asleep XD
#52
I have asthma, my grandma cut a lock of hair and nailed it at my height to a door jam. Supposedly it would be cured when i grew past it. She also bought me a chihuahua bc it would take my asthma from me. And fed me vicks vapor rub too cure cold.
Stephanie Did It 2 months ago
I too have severe asthma. While visiting a country in Southeast Asia, a local insisted that my asthma would be completely cured if I swallowed just one live baby bat whole.
#53
Turmeric. I said the only place turmeric has in my life is on chicken.
#54
I had a doctor tell me that the Mediterranean diet would cure my chronic migraines.
meeeeeeeeeeee 2 months ago
Diet is a contributing factor to many illnesses. It's hardly bad advice.
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SkippityBoppityBoo 2 months ago (edited)
I have something genetically wrong with myself. It's why I keep getting infections and other things. I've had all blood tests, other tests. I've been diagnosed with Lupus but it's not that. Then other tests. Whatever it is? I have maybe now 6/7years left. I know I'm dying and I've made peace with it. I've made my Will and put other things in place. So... Not really much else I can do. At least I know I guess.... I've asked my best friend to please hide my vibrators!!! Erase everything from my phone!!! 😄
Auntriarch 2 months ago
A friend in need is a friend indeed, especially if they will dispose of your vibrators 😂
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Emilu 2 months ago
It's gross that the amount of times mental health features in this article with "just think positively!" Mental health wouldn't be a fucking *thing* if all it took was positive thinking, and poor mental health isn't due to a lack of strength or willpower as a person. People that think this way deserve a bop on the head with a sledgehammer or a Cybertruck.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
I have fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety and I’ve heard: - Eat a bland diet of white foods only - You just need to believe in a higher power - Maybe you should run a marathon - It’ll go away if you get in a happy relationship - Do yoga (same person who told me this later gave up yoga because she read it attracts demons…)
Stephanie Emmerich 2 months ago
I was diagnosed with Chrone's disease 21 years ago and I can't even count the number of people, who don't have Chrone's disease, that try to tell me what I need to do. Like I haven't figured out what does and doesn't work for me over the last 2 decades.
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
I've mentioned this before but apparently the only reason I got leukemia was due to 'condensed sin" and turning from my evil ways was the only cure.
Oskar vanZandt 2 months ago
Suffering from chronic disease/illness has been linked to greater likelihood of the comorbidities of depression and anxiety... I can attest this is true, for me at least.
Howl's sleeping castle 2 months ago
Not a disease but few days ago my husband cut his finger (while playing with his katana🙄), the cut was deep so he had to get stitches. Our maid told us that we just wasted our money going to the hospital because the solution is putting the finger in a bowl of water, drinking a lot of water, and sleeping.
Laserleader 2 months ago
To use hydrogen peroxide on my freshly pierced ears. I would soak them nightly, but they never healed and kept getting irritated and infected. Eventually healed but found out later you use alcohol, because hydrogen peroxide removed the healing skin and kept the wound open. So pissed off that I suffered for a year because of this.
shg stewart 2 months ago
I have cerebral palsy. For a while about 25 years ago, it seemed like everyone and their brother was trying to convince me to do hyperbaric oxygen therapy to "cure" my CP. Hyperbaric O2 *can* help with brain injuries...if you get treated within the first few hours of the injury happening. It's not going to fix 25 year old brain lesions. Grr.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
My dad sustained a traumatic brain injury from an accident in 2000. My mom used to do hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy on him because she was CONVINCED it would "cure" his catastrophic brain damage. It didn't. My dad was near-vegetative and I had to go into the chamber with him to prop/hold him upright during the entire session. It was horrible for everyone involved (my dad had to wear diapers, and if he soiled himself, we couldn't stop the session to change him.) You're definitely right that it's useless to treat "old" brain injuries/lesions. I hope you are doing as well as you can be, my friend <3
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Brian 2 months ago
A few years ago, as my second youngest sister was dying from brain cancer, my third youngest sister insisted on pinning an anti RF (Radio Frequency) token on her gown to slow down and reverse the cancer. The RF token, which absorbed RF from telephone cell towers, was purchased from a holistic practitioner had absolutely no effect on nearby cell phones.
SkippityBoppityBoo 2 months ago (edited)
I have something genetically wrong with myself. It's why I keep getting infections and other things. I've had all blood tests, other tests. I've been diagnosed with Lupus but it's not that. Then other tests. Whatever it is? I have maybe now 6/7years left. I know I'm dying and I've made peace with it. I've made my Will and put other things in place. So... Not really much else I can do. At least I know I guess.... I've asked my best friend to please hide my vibrators!!! Erase everything from my phone!!! 😄
Auntriarch 2 months ago
A friend in need is a friend indeed, especially if they will dispose of your vibrators 😂
Load More Replies... Emilu 2 months ago
It's gross that the amount of times mental health features in this article with "just think positively!" Mental health wouldn't be a fucking *thing* if all it took was positive thinking, and poor mental health isn't due to a lack of strength or willpower as a person. People that think this way deserve a bop on the head with a sledgehammer or a Cybertruck.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
I have fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety and I’ve heard: - Eat a bland diet of white foods only - You just need to believe in a higher power - Maybe you should run a marathon - It’ll go away if you get in a happy relationship - Do yoga (same person who told me this later gave up yoga because she read it attracts demons…)
Stephanie Emmerich 2 months ago
I was diagnosed with Chrone's disease 21 years ago and I can't even count the number of people, who don't have Chrone's disease, that try to tell me what I need to do. Like I haven't figured out what does and doesn't work for me over the last 2 decades.
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
I've mentioned this before but apparently the only reason I got leukemia was due to 'condensed sin" and turning from my evil ways was the only cure.
Oskar vanZandt 2 months ago
Suffering from chronic disease/illness has been linked to greater likelihood of the comorbidities of depression and anxiety... I can attest this is true, for me at least.
Howl's sleeping castle 2 months ago
Not a disease but few days ago my husband cut his finger (while playing with his katana🙄), the cut was deep so he had to get stitches. Our maid told us that we just wasted our money going to the hospital because the solution is putting the finger in a bowl of water, drinking a lot of water, and sleeping.
Laserleader 2 months ago
To use hydrogen peroxide on my freshly pierced ears. I would soak them nightly, but they never healed and kept getting irritated and infected. Eventually healed but found out later you use alcohol, because hydrogen peroxide removed the healing skin and kept the wound open. So pissed off that I suffered for a year because of this.
shg stewart 2 months ago
I have cerebral palsy. For a while about 25 years ago, it seemed like everyone and their brother was trying to convince me to do hyperbaric oxygen therapy to "cure" my CP. Hyperbaric O2 *can* help with brain injuries...if you get treated within the first few hours of the injury happening. It's not going to fix 25 year old brain lesions. Grr.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 months ago
My dad sustained a traumatic brain injury from an accident in 2000. My mom used to do hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy on him because she was CONVINCED it would "cure" his catastrophic brain damage. It didn't. My dad was near-vegetative and I had to go into the chamber with him to prop/hold him upright during the entire session. It was horrible for everyone involved (my dad had to wear diapers, and if he soiled himself, we couldn't stop the session to change him.) You're definitely right that it's useless to treat "old" brain injuries/lesions. I hope you are doing as well as you can be, my friend <3
Load More Replies... Brian 2 months ago
A few years ago, as my second youngest sister was dying from brain cancer, my third youngest sister insisted on pinning an anti RF (Radio Frequency) token on her gown to slow down and reverse the cancer. The RF token, which absorbed RF from telephone cell towers, was purchased from a holistic practitioner had absolutely no effect on nearby cell phones.
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