Public Health

Please don't dismiss supplement users as pseudoscience fanatics.

You have no idea what it's like to live with a chronic illness, with no cure, and no treatment to eliminate the pain and suffering.

People like you harbor misconceptions about modern medicine as an infallible cure-all that isn't riddled with systemic neglect for women, PoC, the uninsured, and chronically ill people.

I take 8 supplements and 7 prescription medications a day. It fucking sucks to have to down 15 pills at night and another 7 in the morning. The only reason why I do is because those supplements are one of very few things that give a modicum of relief to the unending nightmare of pain.

And please don't start with the 'well ahktually studies shows that it doesn't work and it's just placebo.' Please don't decide for us how our own body feels. You cannot disprove our own symptoms to us, not especially when modern medicine has neglected chronic and autoimmune conditions for so long. Because these conditions primarily affect women, and women have not been treated as reliable witnesses to their own bodies, many chronic illnesses haven't even been accepted as 'real' conditions until the last few decades.

So please stop with the psuedoscience accusations. Doctors and researchers have no fucks to give about chronically ill patients, and we are left to trial and error every over the counter supplement we can do we don't kill ourselves from going insane with untreated pain and suffering.