We all know people who give unwanted (and unfounded) medical advice.

Broken toe? Have you ever tried mugwort? Luckily, most of us are able to ignore bad advice and take care of ourselves.

But this gets more complicated when the patient is a teenager and the person giving the bad advice is her mom. Like in this story, when a teen with migraines just wants to consult a doctor, and not Dr. Mom or ChatGPT.

Let’s get a check up with this over-medicated daughter.

AITA for embarrassing my mom in front of the doctor?

So I (16f) and my mom (51f) went to my neurologist appointment yesterday because my migraines have been acting up like crazy lately.

Migraines are a literal pain. Hopefully this girl gets the help she needs?

My mom is really into natural stuff and has giving me soooo many vitamins and random “natural” stuff she has found online for me to take.

She gets upset if I refuse to take them.

Um, OK, not cool. How is a teenager supposed to deal with this headache?

The thing is I’m not doing that out of disrespect, I do my own research and some of the stuff she has me taking either won’t do anything for my migraines, or is too much. Like she has me taking almost 700 milligrams of magnesium a day.

That’s insane.

Yeah I don’t know that much about vitamins but definitely seems overboard, right?

I brought it up to her after doing my own research and finding that I really shouldn’t be having more than 400 milligrams a day and she got mad at me.

She also gets mad when I refuse to read the ChatGPT “articles” she sends me but I don’t think it’s all the accurate. (Especially cause it suggested I take 850 milligrams somehow😭)

Hasn’t mom ever heard not to trust everything you read online?

So when she was taking about all the prescriptions and medicines with my neurologist, my mom mentioned one of the pills she has me taking.

The doctor suggested I stop taking it when my new prescription comes in because it also has magnesium in it. I decide to ask how much magnesium I should be having a day and she says exactly what I have been telling my mom.

Dun dun dun… how much is that?

Around 350 milligrams.

Whoa.

Here’s where I was a little petty… I turned to my mom and said, “I told you so,” and I was playing around but she got hurt. When we got it the car she was upset and didn’t talk to me💔

I don’t think I’m really wrong because I had been telling her but she doesn’t wanna listen to anything that ain’t ChatGPT or anyone younger than her.

I wouldn’t call that petty so much as informed. Shouldn’t the doctor know what the patient is taking?

It’s about my health and I was just trying to show her that I know what’s good for me as well.

I’d say this teen is just taking control of what she’s taking.

Let’s check the comments for a dose of reality…

This person says, Mom should be beet red.

Someone else says this is serious and subtle.

Another user says Mom shouldn’t be embarrassed by a simple fact.

Someone else says, privacy please?

This poster says, magnesium OD can be dead serious.

As if migraines weren’t enough of a headache, this toxic mom piles on.

If you liked this post, you might want to read this story about a teacher who taught the school’s administration a lesson after they made a sick kid take a final exam.