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My drinking crept up during a plateau

Started 16 June 2025 · 13 replies · 140 hearts · read 3k times

DotFalmouth, UK · 16 June 2025
about a year ago

My drinking crept up during a plateau Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#1

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#2

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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TeganNewport, UK
#3

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#5

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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SephNorwich, UK
#6

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#7

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#8

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#9

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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EspeSeville, ES
#10

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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BoWhitby, UK
#11

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#12

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#13

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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