• Practical Gift Ideas for Someone with Chronic Illness or Invisible Illness: A helpful gift guide, plus 4 tips for choosing a gift for someone with health conditions. Useful for Christmas, birthday, or “just because” gift suggestions.
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    Practical Gift Ideas for Someone with Chronic Illness

    I hope this list of practical gifts for chronic illness is a helpful guide, whether you’re looking for Christmas, birthday, or “just because” gift suggestions. I’m also sharing four tips for choosing practical gifts for chronic illness. 

    My health conditions include fibromyalgia, POTS (a form of dysautonomia), myalgic encephalomyelitis (aka chronic fatigue syndrome), and asthma. I know that it can be challenging to know what will be helpful for those of us dealing with limitations due to our health, especially those of us with a lot of allergies. I’m sharing some things I’ve found particularly helpful, things I’ve been gifted, and things on my wishlist. (You can read more about my health journey here.)

    Before we dive into gift suggestions, here are helpful tips for gift giving to keep in mind when your recipient has chronic health conditions.

  • A Gift Guide Based On Your Chronically Ill Friend’s Love Language—Giving meaningful gifts helps our friends and loved ones feel seen and understood. Here are ideas for sharing gifts with someone with a chronic illness. These recommendations are great for Christmas, birthdays, just because, etc.
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    A Chronic Illness Gift Guide Based On Love Language

    Gifts are extra-special if you gear them towards your friend or loved one’s love language. I’ve compiled ideas to help you do just that in this chronic illness gift guide! 

    Those of us with all the complexities and uncertainties of chronic illness can often feel misunderstood and even invisible, so it’s especially meaningful when you take the time to tailor a gift for us.

    As I mentioned in my post about easy, low-cost gift ideas, picking a gift based on someone’s love language helps them to feel seen and understood.