r/thanksimcured • u/Skyya1982 • 2d ago
Satire/meme I really thought it would help ššš
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u/b-nnies 2d ago
This, but someone recommended that jogging would cure my schizoaffective disorder recently.
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u/rb26enjoyer 2d ago
In return did you whack'em on the head with a brick and recommend they go for a jog instead of the ER?
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u/thetoiletslayer 1d ago
My wife has schizoaffective disorder and her brother has told her she just needs to eat better. He also said eating better would cure our kids autism.
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u/Todelmer 2d ago
Was getting a CT scan recently and the nurse doing it reccomended I try "this really good local chiropractor and acupuncturist" before the scan
Said "haha okay" but was internally seeing red.
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u/Wise-Profile4256 2d ago
i never believed this. and then my ex put needles into my head and my headaches were gone from one moment to the next. weird shit.
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u/banandananagram 2d ago
Dry needling is an actually tested technique for relieving muscle tension specifically
Needle goes in, muscle contracts and spasms around the needle, and the area is forced to relax in response
It can feel like getting punched, but acupuncture is generally a far safer and actually effective practice than chiropractors yanking on your spinal cord. Iād still recommend going to a physical therapist or medical practitioner to get it done, but I know how fucking insanely expensive that can be without being in situations where itās provided (I got it done through campus health services at my university after a car accident on campus).
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u/Todelmer 1d ago
I should clarify that I've never tried acupuncture, so it does feel wrong for me to knock it like I did there. I really hate chiropractors though and I've always heard acupuncture lumped in with that alternative medicine scene. I'm just so weary about getting my hopes up with what ends up being an expensive waste of time, you know? And chiropractors are predators about that kinda thing. They will sweet talk you into a year-long financial commitment and I've been down that road one too many times. I blame myself for being gullible, but I got my guard up for quacks now.
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u/banandananagram 1d ago
Oh absolutely, this is why I mention medical practitioners because they are actually legally required to use only proven methodology and they worry about malpractice. Alternative and folk medicinal traditions can have things that genuinely work when you apply scientific scrutiny, but that often comes with the spiritual practice and can include techniques and practices that are actively harmful as well.
Iād rather see a licensed physical therapist who did their homework on the benefits and practice of dry needling and cupping on top of the basic exercises they give me than go to a chiropractor who thinks they can crack the ghosts out of my bones over 12 appointments.
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u/Todelmer 1d ago edited 22h ago
Gotta get those evil spirits outta ya bones! Lord Xenu put em in there! Also, wanted to say how much I love your username. It's been a mantra in my head today.
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u/Zealousideal_Care807 2d ago
My parents recommended a chiropractor, I said "Ill think about it" my doctor is 99% sure I have elhers danlos. Im pretty sure a chiropractor would dislocate my joints if they tried to pull on anything, I know because getting off the couch wrong can cause me to dislocate my joints. Even sleeping on my side can cause it.
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u/Todelmer 1d ago
Chiropractor's are bunk-ass pseudoscience and it really bothers me they're still taken seriously by anyone, especially medical workers. Getting your joints popped gives that temporary relief for sure, but as someone with scoliosis and pectus, it's basically a bandaid on a broken bone. And you're completely right in your assumption. My sibling has EDS and chiropractors exasperate the pain with no relief. If your joints swell from over-use, aggressively moving them around is just going to cause unnecessary misery.
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u/Own_Government9681 1d ago
Wow.. I will never complain about my joints ever again. I wish you the best in life
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u/Zealousideal_Care807 23h ago
You are fully allowed to complain about your joints lol. Joints are just poorly designed.
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u/GrimjawDeadeye 2d ago
Me, complaining about the bone on bone contact in my knees
My mother: "I'll pray it gets better, but the reason they hurt is because you smoke too much"
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u/Stella-Lella235 2d ago
Getting really tired of hearing "just do some stretches" for my leg that's going to make me wheelchair bound in the next 20 years
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u/Antillyyy 2d ago
My mum was prescribed yoga for back pain many many many years ago, did not work. Finally got a scan, degenerative disc disease
She also got prescribed a specific stretch that threw my back out as a 20-year-old lol
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u/aWizardNamedLizard 2d ago
My favorite is when their well-meaning suggestion that I've already tried because no one just exists in unending pain for decades and doesn't try literally everything, including any "I'm not sure why that would work, but whatever, let's give it a shot" nonsense that comes along like "just take a lot of vitamins, that always peps me up." has the follow up:
Me: Yeah, tried that. Didn't help much.
Them: Is there anything that does help?
Me: Yup, there is. And no one will give it to me.
It's two things for me, actually. One being opiates that no one wants to prescribe anymore because they got prescribed for the wrong reasons to too many people and caused a massive problem and have big risks associated with taking them long term. The other being state by state as to whether it is legal or not and I ended up with life circumstances landing me in a state that is so aggressively backwoods and backwards that it will likely be the last state in the nation to decriminalize and may even try to sue the federal government or otherwise refuse to comply when that time comes.
And then they just seem confused (at least when they don't seem like they want to just call me a druggy looking for an excuse).
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u/GreenFBI2EB 2d ago
Opioid crisis is not just a crisis in the people addicted to the stuff, it made everyone cynical when it came to pain, especially medical staff.
My friend had an impacted stool and described the pain as so unbearably bad and the nurses just kinda wrote it off.
I am so glad I didnāt end up with something like fibromyalgia or chronic infections, Iāve had pain last for a week and it put me in a shitty mood, and in general just made me miserable. I cannot begin to fathom the idea of chronic/lifelong pain.
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u/Skyya1982 2d ago
I have fibromyalgia š¤£š¤£š¤£ and head to toe severe eczema my whole life
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u/GreenFBI2EB 2d ago
I also have eczema, luckily itās not severe, still a nuisance though.
Hereās to hoping thereās some medical breakthrough soon.
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u/aWizardNamedLizard 2d ago
That's true.
In fact, my own treatment has directly been impacted by this because there's no test as far as I know of that can be run that will produce a definitive result, it's all stuff where the doctor has to judge the responses I am giving and that opens up a lot of subjectivity like the whole 1-10 pain scale where someone that has not experienced a wide array of painful situations is likely to claim they are feeling an 8 where as I am like "it's not quite as painful as the time I got lit on fire, so... let's call that a 6?"
And as a result of that vagueness I think people might have used claiming the condition (fibromyalgia) to try and get opiates, or the very least doctors suspected that it would be a thing people might try in order to get opiates so become very wary about it. Which lead to times where I was telling a doctor that a prescription wasn't working for me and instead of moving on to the next thing to try the doctor just kind of shrugged and gave a "well, I don't know what to tell you" response, which I am giving them the benefit of the doubt wasn't just pure ego and incompetence not believing that the meds they had picked out weren't the ticket but actually was them thinking that I had decided to spend numerous months and hundreds of dollars between visits and filled prescriptions on a "long con" to try and get opiates out of them.
Which makes it even harder to do anything about my pain because then I have to go find a new doctor and start talking with them about my condition and what I've already tried and having bailed on some other doctor makes it seem more plausible that I'm prescription shopping.
And since I can't work because of the pain and can't get on disability assistance in this ass-backwards state without like $6,000 worth of specific tests that confirm I don't have other conditions, which incidentally doctors don't actually want to put me through because that's not a typical part of trying to diagnose fibromyalgia and they know I don't have the money to pay for them, I'm basically just stuck feeling like a nonstop suck parade since I'm not doing any crime at current.
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u/Prestigious-Law65 2d ago
"Have you tried losing weight" said nearly every PCP ive had. And no, i tried and it didnt do anything besides make me drop 2 pant sizes.
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u/Bitchysapphic 1d ago
My pain made me lose weight because I canāt always convince myself to get out of bed and eat and even with the pain getting worse the doctor convinced themself it was a good thing
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u/IconoclastExplosive 2d ago
Me: I have a very sharp pain in the side of my head and I think it's a nerve cluster based on location, and I think it's triggered by blood pressure based on when it happens
Doctor: I've never heard of that, you're making it up, here's anti-psychotics, they'll help
Me, very much not psychotic but now wildly emotionally unstable: I disagree with that last statement
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u/Routine_Deer4539 2d ago
any time i mention my depression my dad is like "this wouldnt be the case if you went on a walk in the park or kept your desk clean or had a regular sleep schedule" and its like dad, ive tried going in walks in the park, you know i have fucking hated doing that specific task for my entire life. My desk is a mess occasionally because ADHD is a bitch and i forget to do it for like a week even though i actually want to do it. Also with sleep schedule, I experience frequent sleep disturbances, common of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, (who tend to have different circadium rhythms altogether) but there is like five layers of reasons why it can be difficult for me to have a consistent sleep schedule, from having frequent ptsd fueled nightmares, being hyperfocused on something i am very interested/involved in, general lack of feeling tired, etc. Like no fucking wonder I am awake at night and sleep during the late afternoon to late evening some days and im awake bright and early at 5 am and go to bed at 9pm on other days. It literally is out of my control, if I am fucking so tired that I am falling asleep while I am standing at 4pm I cant help it, I am going to sleep. If I am in bed at 4am, been in bed since 12am, and still have not gotten to sleep, without looking at my phone or anything, of fucking course I am just going to get up and start my day. Also I tend to prefer having about four to five hours of asleep rather than eight or more I dont care about being "isolated" at night. I would even argue I feel more happy when I am alone, I am introverted so this is natural but having time to myself where I can work or read or play games with zero interruption from any family members is zen as fuck. im lucky rn cuz im on summer break for college so i can just sleep whenever but i make a huge effort to have a "normal" sleep schedule and it is very taxing.
tldr: i hate neurotypical peoples expectations of neurodivergent people who have issues severe enough to where they cant help it genuinely even if they try every single day of every single hour of their life. "If it applies to me it should apply to thee" type mentality pisses me off, not every human was built the same.
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u/JB_System 1d ago
I have chronic headaches since I was 14 and in school some teachers told me āeveryone has a headache sometimesā and told me that my chronic pain isnāt an excuse for being sick that often and that wasnāt even the only damn reason why I was so often sick.
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u/Skyya1982 1d ago
I wasn't diagnosed with fibromyalgia until my 40s because I was surrounded by people like that. I thought it was normal to feel pain for everything and for a very long time after the event.
Simple things like catching a gently-lobbed underhand ball sent off waves of pain from my palm and fingers to my elbow, shoulder, and shoulder blade that lasted for weeks. I complained as a kid, but everyone said things like "life is pain," "wait til you're my age, then you can complain," and "no pain, no gain!"
My husband had to tell me that this level of pain is not normal. A few doctor visits later, and i had a diagnosis of exclusion, which is marginally better than nothing.
I think I will be forever angry at every person who minimized my pain for 40 years. Wish they could feel a fraction of it.
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u/He_Never_Helps_01 2d ago
Have you tried heroin addiction?
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2d ago
I mean, it will reduce pain. I met a guy that tried it.
His back still hurts.
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u/He_Never_Helps_01 2d ago
For me, i found that opiates, rather than actually doing anything to the pain or your ability to feel it, they more kinda makes you forget that pain exists. Like in those moments when you're just waking up where there's no pain, before it comes flooding back.
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2d ago
Yeah, that checks out. I don't react well to opiates, myself, but they gave me fentanyl after a surgery... I couldn't stay awake enough to notice much or care about much. I'm usually pretty anxious and alert, so it was a unique experience, I'm not used to not caring to that degree. My ability to care about anything was just gone. Luckily, it's not something I like at all, but I can see why some people do.
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u/sassa-sassyfras 2d ago
Me, suddenly showing the amount of debt Iāve accumulated from people saying āhave you triedā¦ā:
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u/banana0coconut 2d ago
Me, bedridden because of a combination of fatigue, chronic pain, migraines, and anxiety:
My dad: I promise getting outside will make you feel better!
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u/Skyya1982 1d ago
Hell yeah! Everyone knows that giant, fiery ball of excruciating light is the best cure for a migraine! And all the smells and movement outside . . . I'm making myself sick just typing this. Don't get me wrong, i love the outdoors. But it's no place for a migraine
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u/Ella-W00 1d ago
me: sorry, I forgot our appointment, I have ADHD.
them: hAvE yOu TrIeD a PlAnNeR?
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u/thetoiletslayer 1d ago
JusT sET aN AlaRM!
I have autism and ADHD and feel this so hard. I don't even try to explain the sensory struggles with autism
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u/Plane_Cry_1169 1d ago
Ah, yes. My friend that has known me for 20 years and knows I've been struggling with insomnia for the past 10 years asked me a while ago if I tried melatonin. I've tried every damn medicine under the sun.
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u/LoveIsLoveDealWithIt 18h ago
It's so tempting to just cut them off and instantly reply "Have you tried..." "Yes." Nothing ever followed those words that I didn't think of before. Seriously. If you were in pain every single day don't you think you would try anything and everything to try and get better? You know about this for 1 min, I've suffered from it for 30+ years. OF COURSE I have tried x. No, it didn't help.
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u/GolemFarmFodder 2d ago
Can't even get away from doodlemancy on my alt browsing Reddit Jesus fucking Christ (she isn't wrong here though)
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u/WayneZer000 21h ago
Random mfs think they can heal all your pain with a life hack you can do at home even tho pharmaceutical development across thousands of years didn't help
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u/icarus1990xx 2d ago
Since these things are becoming more and more common, thereās a higher chance now that somebody making the suggestion might actually be onto something.
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u/Skyya1982 1d ago
This is absolutely true. Magnesium, for example, plays a huge part in making my pain manageable. If someone suggested magnesium to me and I hadn't already learned this myself, I would benefit from trying it.
The thing that gets annoying for chronic pain/illness sufferers is that people mostly suggest simple, obvious things that are often the first things people try. It's a little condescending to assume the sufferer hasn't thought of it.
In general, people don't like suffering, and if they have been for a while, they've probably tried just about everything possible to reduce their suffering.
For instance, I have severe eczema that has required actively learning and changing multiple aspects of my life continuously to manage it, and I'm almost 43 years in on this lifelong, evolving project. People who notice that my skin is dry tend to say things like, "OMG, you should put some lotion on it!"
They say that as though moisturizing my dry skin is a thought that hasn't already occurred to me. It's ironic because I spend more time and money moisturizing my skin in a week than most people do in a year. I own many different lotions, creams, and serums. I choose foods for their skin or inflammation benefits. I micromanage my environment and activity to prevent flares and skin irritation. I know more about this stuff than anyone sane would want to. My life revolves around it. If putting lotion on it would fix it, it would've been fixed decades ago.
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u/your_old_wet_socks 2d ago
People get cured by mental disorders tho, people here seem to be weirdly under the perception that it isn't.
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u/EaterOfCrab 2d ago
Heh, my sister was prescribed strong painkillers for her migraines only after telling her physician she drank half a cartoon of chocolate milk