• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    I used to have chronic pain+fatigue for 17 years. Did not want to participate in anything, because it just meant more pain and less spoons, and the majority of people remember me that way.

    I’m still working out how to live life normally, like I’m kind of doing my teenage years now, exploring my surroundings and trying out things.
    So, I’m not yet a fully different person, but even just me voluntarily doing things, sports, etc. really does not compute for people who still know me from back then.

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        17 hours ago

        Well, in my case, it’s a form of gluten intolerance. Might be coeliac disease.

        So, if you were to have the same thing as me, then try not eating wheat, spelt, barley, rye for like three days or so.

        Perhaps more generally, make a list of foods you frequently eat, and then go through it one-by-one and don’t eat that food for a few days and see if anything happens.
        Could of course be various other things, too, but it’s something you can control fairly easily. I’m still baffled that I never had a few days where I didn’t eat wheat in all those years.