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Too Smart For My Own Good

Does this happen to anyone else on their Journeys To Diagnosis And Health, because it’s happened to me multiple times now.

You find out you might have a condition, or get diagnosed with a condition, or a deficiency, or whatever, and then you find out that there are Things You Can Do/Foods You Can Eat/Vitamins You Can Take that are supposed to really help and you get excited and look it up and find out that you were actually doing 100% of them already?

And then you just do this at the computer screen. 😠

I have examples. 

1. My doctor told me that my fibromyalgia diagnosis would probably have come six months to a year earlier if I wasn’t already doing EXACTLY what is recommended to minimise the symptoms of fibromyalgia IE engaging in moderate low impact exercise, good diet, and tracking my steps to find the sweet spot for my muscles between ‘not enough exercise, time to stiffen up’ and ‘too much exercise, time to go limp for a few days’.

2. Finding out that I was already eating everything on the ‘recommended’ list for fibro, except the stuff I’m allergic to, after I got my diagnosis.

3. Checking ‘recommended exercise’ for ADHD and finding I’m also doing that. Exactly.

3. JUST NOW THIS MINUTE looking up foods meant to enhance dopamine production and finding that not only do I eat ALL of them, but more than half the list are things I eat every day. (I mean, I don’t eat all of them every day, but at least two or three things off that half of the list go into me each day) 

I mean, on the one hand, good for me I guess, I’m apparently pretty good at identifying foods and activities that make me Feel Better? But on the other hand, I would really like to be able to do things that Actually Improve my ground state of ‘I Think A 4 On The Pain Scale Is A Low Pain Day’ rather than constantly finding out that apparently this is me operating at peak. >.<