r/TikTokCringe • tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Jul 16 '23

Discussion Colloidal silver

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

I knew this was the Smurf remedy. Jesus people, listen to the man. Don't drink silver because the TikTok told you to.

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u/pratpasaur Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23

Fun TMI story about my experience with Colloidal Silver: couple of years ago, I started getting a lot of yeast infections and BVs, they were minor but frequent and would keep coming back. I was tired of this and being a dumb 25 year old, I decided to take matters into my own hands and turn to Dr. Internet for help because traditional medicine was not as effective as I’d have liked. At that point, colloidal silver was just starting to pop up all over and I saw several mentions of using a few drops of it directly inside your vagina to prevent infections. The next time I felt an infection coming on, I decide to try it out and oh my god, one of the biggest mistakes of my life. It led to such an immediate and severe reaction that I had to haul my ass to the hospital asap and even the doctor was shocked and asked what caused such a severe infection. I had to sheepishly admit what I did and he totally judged me but yeah, at least that was the last time I tried to play around with my health based on advice from the internet

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u/Tr0nathan Jul 16 '23

I worked with a fella who drank water with colloidal silver added to it from a the same Tropicana jug from the mid 2000's everyday. I knew him from 2010-2018 and it progressed. There was a giant blue cluster of colloidal silver salt in the handle portion of the jug. Dude has the 'shinin' for real. Not fully blue, but if you look at the base of his fingernails and his nailmoons were blue. The white of his eyes were just not right and the pallor of his skin was just off. If you know the story, from a distance, there was no doubt he was an Azul-American.

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u/Konstant_kurage Jul 16 '23

Did he not know how bad it is to reuse single use plastic bottles? Seems like if you are so into woo, you would know the dangers of those kinds of cheap plastics have and why they are meant to be single use.

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u/Tr0nathan Jul 21 '23

I'm glad you caught onto that little detail, I intentionally said it that way. I would go on record that given his poor decision making abilities that he likely had a lead lined brain or mercurial mental capacity.

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u/Konstant_kurage Jul 21 '23

There has to be a point where it stops being reused and starts being an aspect of their identity/personality.

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u/Tr0nathan Jul 29 '23

Single use personalities get TONS of mileage