Chronic Illness on Yik Yak | That person that keeps on recommending taking multivitamins for chronic fatigue gives off Man Vibes. You know the kind of vibes where you go see a male doctor and they tell you to lose weight for everything even when weight is irrelevant.

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Chronic Illness 16w

That person that keeps on recommending taking multivitamins for chronic fatigue gives off Man Vibes. You know the kind of vibes where you go see a male doctor and they tell you to lose weight for everything even when weight is irrelevant.

Anonymous 16w

Honestly most things that claim to cure your *chronic* illness are misleading. Magnesium, fish oil, salt, and CBD *help* with my neurological problems, but I am by no means cured. Also, the only people that have really pushed vitamins as a cure have been men (not doctors mind you) who weren’t asked.

Anonymous 16w

everything about the way that person responded to you read like a red flag to me tbh. blocked them immediately cause if i post about my own fatigue in here the last thing i want is a stranger with no further context re: my experience of chronic illness to talk down to me like i’m just dealing with these symptoms because i haven’t tried multivitamins or losing weight

Anonymous 16w

Tbh vitamins help me, especially iron and vitamin d, but I also have a deficiency

Anonymous 16w

This is how I feel about whoever keeps recommending LDN. Like they always read as an advertisement and I hate it. Unless I am asking for help or advice, I just want to vent or find someone who relates

Anonymous 16w

I went back and forth so much on whether to send this because I hate unsolicited advice so much. What’s more is I hate being told to take vitamins. So please feel free to ignore this. But I have chronic fatigue. By no means does it fix or cure it. But it’s at least an interesting read if you’re interested in research and that.

Anonymous

#1 16w

I don’t have an iron deficiency at all so vitamins don’t help me. They do absolutely nothing for my fatigue and unsolicited unhelpful advice is weird.

Anonymous

#1 16w

It’s just an unhinged response to say that taking vitamins will cure all your chronic illnesses.

Anonymous

#3 16w

Have you heard of the MTHFR gene mutation? There’s different ones, but one of them can affect how you process vitamin B. So tests show that you have enough and vitamin shots, supplements and all that are pretty useless because you don’t process it. Not saying you have it. But people with that gene need a special B (which is also why generic multivitamin advice sucks). I’ll never process a multivitamin correctly. Sorry for advice dropping - Chronic fatigue is a bitch (as I lay in bed post nap)

Anonymous

#3 16w

I will be ignoring all unsolicited advice. You are not being helpful. Consent is everything. Don’t pull this bs on me again.

Anonymous

#2 16w

Yep. I take CBD/CBN and edibles, and *surprise* vitamins and they don’t cure it. If anything it just makes me not want to die but is just as helpful as Aleve or Tylenol would be to someone that isn’t chronically ill

Anonymous

#4 16w

Yeah same. Thought it was weird too when I was talking about my chronic illness making me sad I didn’t have more energy to hang out and make more community with people and that person kept on suggesting for me to isolate myself. It makes me feel like that person probably does not have chronic illness and is a just a random person that popped on here

Anonymous

OP 16w

That’s crazy, the last thing you should do is isolate yourself. And this is coming from someone whose primary coping mechanism is isolation (working on it). Finding community and understanding can be so healing, mentally at least

Anonymous

#5 16w

Yeah isolation hasn’t been great for me either. It made it harder for me to talk to people and connect which hasn’t been good for me, so I’m trying to get out of my shell as often as my body allows me to. It’s better for my mental health when I’m around people that understand. Isolation isn’t always super healthy for me anymore

Anonymous

#5 16w

I take that but I would never push that med or any med on anyone else because I am not a doctor and think it’s more helpful to be there to support folks and to let them vent, and to only provide advice when there’s explicit consent

Anonymous

OP 16w

Exactly! Like if I’m asking for help/advice then go right ahead. But most of the time I just want to bitch about being in pain and not having answers as to why

Anonymous

OP 16w

This seems less like unsolicited advice and more just information sharing honestly, unless comments were removed or something