Challenges of Dating and Relationship with Chronic illness

A - ASMR for us is pin-drop silence.

B - Birth Control isn't needed since no one sticks around for that long.

C - Consent means allowing the doctor to give you pain injection in the buttocks.

D - Dirty Talk is cribbing about all the dirty dishes in the kitchen.

E - Eggs, broken down every month, are part of the diet.

F - Friends with Benefits are to bring warm soup and medicine from pharmacy, when sick.

G - Gynecologist tells you to freeze eggs on every visit.

H - Hand Job means basically PT hand exercises to remove stiffness of muscles each morning.

I - Intimacy becomes getting back massage from Urban Company.

J - Jack-o' Lantern or Off? This Halloween, I have no f*** to give.

K - Kinky becomes great foot rubs.

L - Lust I feel is for Momos while Loneliness without Pizza.

M - Menses become more and more unbearable each month.

N - No, Means No! is what the body says to not get out of bed in the morning.

O - One Night Stand is the only night of the week you actually slept.

P - Physical Distancing is pre & post-COVID certainty.

Q - Questions of mere exsitence on the planet bug you all night.

R - Role-playing is essentially looking well on the outside while bearing immense discomfort on the inside.

S - Surprise plans make you anxious and overwhelmed.

T - Technology & Medical Research are still not enough to convince people, even doctors that you are in real pain.

U - Utopia exists only in imagination as people in real-life have myopia.

V - Vanilla is the only flavour of your life.

W - Wet dreams are actually due to night sweats and hot flashes for no reason.

X - (e)X-rated you -0 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Y - Years go by without proper diagnosis. Once diagonosed, it takes years for results to show too.

Z - ZigZag thus goes the day, the week, the life!

*Compiled from experiences of 150+ Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients.