A peer support community, independent and not for sale. Since February 2024.

GLP CircleA peer support community

Sunday 19 January 2025

If you started something recently, how is week one going?

New arrivals especially. The rest of us remember it vividly. — asked by Esi

MapleToronto, CA

Week one. I have the pen in the fridge and I have not touched it in four days.

5

SalmaManchester, UK

Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.

6

Tycho That is a lovely thing to have noticed.

BlySheffield, UK

Started Thursday. Told one person. Feel faintly ridiculous about how frightened I was.

4

NoraDublin, IE

Week one, night shifts, and I could not work out which day my week began.

3

GittaBonn, DE

Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.

9

PetuaKampala, UG

Started at sixty-two and I feel late to everything, and everybody here has been lovely about that.

7

Dara Glad you went in.

RomyVienna, AT

Week two and the nausea arrived exactly on schedule, which was almost reassuring.

7

BramberSteyning, UK

I would tell somebody in week two that the third day after a step is the honest one.

7

TinukeManchester, UK

I would tell them to find one person to tell. Just one.

4

Cormac You are not behind. There is no schedule.

BrammyBelfast, NI

I would tell them to find one person to tell. Just one.

7