What's the stupidest piece of advice someone has given to cure a disabled or chronically

ill person?

I have chronic migraines and have been getting about 15 to 20 a month since 2017.

A well-meaning Facebook friend suggested I put a banana peel on my forehead because your body

will absorb potassium into the brain. Yeah, my six different meds, physical

therapy, rigid sleep and eating schedule, Botox injections among the many other treatments that the

PA, my primary doctor and my neurologist, all recommended, didn't fix my migraines, but this random

person read the banana peel thing on the

internet, so it had to be true. Dude, I feel the sarcasm. Like, I've literally said,

Ah, yeah, good thing you told me to take essential oils. You've just cured seven years of chronic

throwing up that 12 doctors and 9 specialists couldn't. To people even think before they speak? Sometimes I wonder.

I was told to drink a mixture of different cooking oils, like a cup of oil, mixed with sage,

oregano, two different kinds of teas and something else. Someone convinced my family member that

that concoction would stop my organ failure. Another said I needed to visit

her magical vet who had know exactly what to do to fix me. Also said I should get off my

pain medication because apparently that's what was causing my organ failure, not the string of

birth defects that I had. Needless to say, I didn't do any of that and I'm now post-transplant

surgery doing much better.

Nowhere near perfect, but good enough for me.

Family still offering stupid advice to fix me now, so I get irate and sarcastic at the mention of juice cleanses and footpads that pull out toxins.

Lupus here, with bad photosensitivity, people just tell me to go out in the sun and exercise

so I can get more vitamin D.

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