All my fellow spoonies I KNOW you feel the pain of this one! If I had a dollar for every time I received unsolicited health advice for a various food item, special diet, or alternative medics practice to help heal my chronic illness I would be rich by now!
It is no doubt that even for those of us with chronic illness, attention to diet, lifestyle choices, and certain alternative medicine practices certainly can and do make a big difference, and some conditions have even been known to go into remission with enough time and effort in health changes. However, many chronic illnesses are based in genetics, a genetic predisposition for chronic infections, immune-dysfunction, auto-immune diseases, or in my case a genetic defect in the cell structure itself, and for these things there simply often is just not a cure in our current medical science.
Please ASK before you offer advice to someone, if they would like to hear some advice on something you have tried or seen before handing it out to a person with a chronic illness as this is typically very triggering for us as we have tried most if not all of these things, and are frustrated that we can not get well again.
And fellow spoonies, the best thing we can do is to gently, without frustration or anger continue to try to educate and bring awareness to those in our lives and online who are in healthy bodies, they truly do always only mean well so have compassion for them as well!
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