If I was you I'd ....

After suffering with a persistant cough for 2 years I finally got to see a consultant. He put a camera down my throat and told me my pharynx was raw and inflamed. I asked what could be done about it, his advice 'stop coughing'!!! 4 years later I'm still coughing......

Eldest son and his constant you need to get........ Took his advice and still struggling with my I phone technology Now take my mum’s advice if it’s not broke don’t fix it.

Try Manuka honey etc to cure ME/CFS

Thanks for clearing that up BigBertha ....well, I suppose mums have our best interest at heart...

readsalot

Don't wash your hair or have a bath when you have your period! My best friend in the late sixties. I ignored her.

My Mum told me that.

My Mum also advised don't sit on the ground, you'll get piles.

A GP told me to 'pull myself together ' when I felt suicidal. I have been clinically depressed since a teenager. I refused to see him again. Idiot.

Did you have to have a baby in December? It's ruined my plans!!

Oops that was from my Mum

I can live with ‘if I were you...’ but I get really cross when people say ‘what you really want to do is...’ because it assumes I don’t know my own mind. Grrrr.

When I divorced my mum said I wouldn’t need a double bed anymore. How wrong she was!

Moggycuddler it’s a cork to stop restless legs, mind you the wine makes a mess in the bed without a cork in it, oh well drink it all , that will definitely stop the restless legs!

Kate1949

'Stop being upset about your alopecia. It's only hair'. This from someone with lovely thick hair.

That's was cruel Kate1949! Hope you told them to do one!?!?

I too had the raw potato suggestion for RLS but didn't need to try it as the alternative suggestion of a bar of toilet soap was more attractive and worked a treat. Still is. Mind you, messy as it sounds, I would have tried it I was so desperate.

Not sure if this was advice but I once went into school because my daughter struggled with spelling. At the end of meeting the teacher finished with” spelling really doesn’t matter much nowadays”!!!!!!!!!

My mother in law telling me don't cuddle my child because I would spoil her .

"Don't get an automatic washing machine, get another twin tub"

'Sticks and stones may hurt your bones but words will never harm you'

From my wildly superstitious Irish Nan “ Don’t look in the mirror in a storm, if lightning strikes you’ll go mad!!”?

Another doctor one - Being told by a doctor (whose buttocks overhung the chair she was sitting on) that I should lose weight when I was well within the range for my height.

"Why don't you ...?" was the response of my late mother-in-law to any statement about what we planned to do, suggesting something else entirely. Now my sister-in-law does it!

Worse than saying 'if I was you' is 'you want to ---'. I have a friend who often says this and it makes me mad!

Midwife telling me to take a sleeping pill and get some rest as I could not possibly be in labour - I gave birth about half an hour later!

Don't apply for that job you are unemployable! My mum said that to me about 10 years ago!

From my husband, as a response to many things I say or do "what you should have said (or done)".
Maybe what I should have done was to bury him under the patio.....