Autoimmune disease can be such a lonely experience. No one can see a lot of your symptoms, if not all. So everyone thinks you’re just making it up. “Maybe get some more sleep?” “Maybe exercise more?” Those are from the people that at least try to be helpful. Then you get those who aren’t so helpful… “Just suck it up” “Oh stop being a baby” Or… “you’re just making that up so you don’t have to do X, Y, and Z” If you’ve had these, I feel you. I’ve been there. It sucks. But it isn’t all in your head

Are symptoms your autoimmunity flaring up? Or is it chronic, systemic inflammation? 🤔 Chronic inflammation is a long-term battle that is USUALLY present when you have active autoimmune symptoms and can not only make your symptoms worse - but also BE the cause of autoimmune activity. And it can get super confusing as to which one is causing what you’re feeling… This is one reason why just treating the SYMPTOMS doesn’t work. If you use a cream for your psoriasis, it only addresses the skin. It do