To feel like such a sickly, useless human being

[onarollercoaster]

Now I know it could always be worse and for many people it is. But I’m just so fed up with having niggly ongoing bad health. (I apologise, this is super self indulgent, I’m just sitting here with a broken foot, really bloody sick of myself)

Ever since I was a kid, I was the one in the family with all the allergies, the asthma, the chronic eczema, the hay fever. I used to scratch so bad I had to be bandaged up for years at night time with wet bandages.

Growing up and into adult hood, it just hasn’t got any better. I still suffer severely with asthma, eczema and hay fever among other things.

I just don’t know what to do with myself to ‘get well’? Can I get well or are my genes floored?

I have tried loads of different things, lifestyle changes, exclusion diets, clean eating etc, but I always end up back at the same point.

Im starting to feel defeated in this world.

Know this a bit old but I wanted to say I know how you feel and someone here “gets it”.

i don’t have answers for you except perhaps to eat healthy as possible and exercise. But also to accept your limitations and indulge in rest rather than rest only when forced to. Just a mindset change but I’ve found it can help.

Hope things get better

I hear you. I too have asthma, eczema, hay fever, IBS and food allergies. I have added anxiety and depression in the last decade.

It's bloody irritating and seriously frustrating.