To growl at anyone who suggests a woo-woo cure for my incurable condition?

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I'm not again complimentary therapies. I think they play a role alongside conventional medicine but I am sick to the back teeth of people who suggest ridiculous cures for my Rheumatoid Arthritis and another rare autoimmune condition. It's severe - I have joint damage, I am disabled by it and I need strong drugs to get it under control so I can have some sort of life. It may go into remission, it can be controlled but it's unlikely to be cured at this point in time.

I have no problem with people who say "my auntie has this and recommends ice packs and gentle swimming once a week". But I am getting fed up of "20 minutes of standing naked in the rain and you'll be cured".

I've done the nodding and smiling crap but it's not working. I don't want to be rude or swear because I know people are genuinely trying to help but I'm not a fan of woo 'treatments' and people just are not getting the message. AIBU to bare my teeth and growl a bit?

OP - I am sending you healing vibes right now - can you not feel them? It may be because you are emotionally blocking the offer of help. Have you tried hypnotism? If you have a few sessions with a hypnotist (if you have difficulty finding one through your GP try one of those who put little cards through your letterbox. The ability to spell isn't everything, you know) and cut out wheat, dairy products and liquorice allsorts for a month you will probably be able to feel my vibes.

HTH.

Sorry..'although' in my post should read 'other'

Have you tried drinking your urine? It has wonderful cure all properties.

Some guy once told me my brittle asthma is caused by walnut trees

DS and i have been accosted more by religious zealots than woo evangelists. I have been informed that DS's leg condition is caused by my sins in a former life by a shop-keeper, had to whisk him away from a spontaneous eruption of some form of highly theatrical Brazilian faith healing outside a bookshop, and numerous other rather insistent offers of intervention by prayer and ritual.

cork under your pillow maybe?

Because conventional medicine always works doesn't it! It's so brilliant you're still in pain.

Maybe because those that care see you in such pain they are suggesting any avenue in an attempt to help you. Not all therapies are woo woo conducted buy naked hairy women chanting while burning incense.

I think yabu and not only that dismissing a whole other avenue that may help your condition.

YABU

There is absolutely nothing wrong with you, and you should just get up and get on with it.

I bet you don't "look" disabled, so I hope you haven't got a blue parking badge :o

by not buy! and no I am no woo woo or hairy nor do I chant

What've you got against naked hairy women and chanting, alice?

Personally I prefer bottles marked 'drink me'.

You should try go down to Dharamsala. Tibetan doctors will whisk your urine with a whip, and by looking at the foam will be able accurately diagnose you and prescribe medication. My friend with cancer of her liver, kidney, skeleton, you name it go twice a year, she feels on top of the world! (Her hospital doctors just dont understand, worry-bods )

give them a suggested cure for their woo woo suggestive pattern that is aggregating their friend?

Possibly they could use brown parcel tape across their mouth - this would do the trick and possibly they would reduce their weight at the same time as an added side effect

YANBU

I have used complimentary stuff when i was ill about 10 years ago and found them extremely useful. However even the homeopath i was seeing at the time did this face at the thought of anything 'alternative' curing cancer, for example.

I have severe endometriosis, have had several operations and now only have one ovary and fallopian tube. If i had a pound for the number of people who told me it would go if i just had a baby i would be rich. Fwiw i now have three dcs and guess what? I still have endo! who'd have thought it....

My keyboard's just used up another of its nine lives at Alistair.

Yy, Venus, sympathetic magic. Alive and well and living in the C20th. And probably C21st...

No, no OP. All you need is two rose quartz crystals and a willow wand. Firmly, using the wand with a rotational movement, stuff one crystal up each nostril of the next person to suggest something woo. You will then feel much better.

I had cancer, and was told I could cure it by eating green vegetables 'to get my immunity up'. This person knows full well I'd been veggie for about 15 years at that point, and I ate more veg than most (and her), anyway.

But - as I am a grumpy atheist sod, the most annoying are the ones who told me that they were praying for me. Er - really do just fuck off with that, please.

Tea tree oil?

Alice conventional and alternative can work very well hand in hand, and there are many alternative treatments that can help with the effects of some conditions, yes.

However when you have something long-term and incurable, it is amazing the number of people who believe your condition can be 'cured' by something they're read about in a magazine but surprisingly hasn't been suggested by the many medical bods you have probably seen. That sort of attitude is incredibly trying, because it diminishes and shows real lack of understanding of what can be horribly debilitating conditions to live with.

See, I don't think people who do this are always just trying to help. Not that they bear you any ill-will, but this stuff can be quite dismissive and minimising. I think often the people who do it don't want to hear about intractable problems and scary conditions. They are distancing themselves from that by saying 'Oh, it's easy to deal with, just do this.' La la la la not listening to you tell me it's incurable, scary no no no have some Bach's Flower Remedies...la la coffee enema..witter...blather...etc.

Oh, come on OP - you should know that a naked brisk walk for 5 miles before breakfast will work wonders.

I would imagine it's the same people who insist I couldn't possibly have early degenerative disease in all of the joints in my left leg because...I'm too young.

They obviously don't know the meaning of the word 'early'.

It's tempting to carry around my x-rays and whip them out to show them where I have little to no cartilage in my knee, ankle and hip. And then hit them with my walking stick.

I think Eldritch has a point. I have a chronic medical condition. Sometimes when people say this stuff, I get the feeling they want it to be something I am doing wrong. That way, it can't happen to them because they would drink nettle tea or whatever.

YANBU

I think it's Tim Minchin who says "There's a name for alternative medicine that's been proved. Its called 'Medicine'."

Yep agree with you op. The amount of people suggesting crazy woo herbal stinky concoctions for my eczema, which was quite severe when I was little.

But you know what worked? sssh don't tell anyone...
steroids

Also kudos to my granny for suggesting I go and get my eczema blessed by our Sikh priest.

Babyheave I thought it was dara o'briain?

'Its fecking water you're healing yourself with'
And
'everything else is a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri, so knock yourself out'