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Two drinks now land like five

Started 1 January 2025 · 14 replies · 167 hearts · read 3.4k times

NkechiAbuja, NG · 1 January 2025
1.5 years ago

Two drinks now land like five — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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AmbroseYork, UK
#1

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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OttoPrague, CZ
#2

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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DotFalmouth, UK
#3

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#5

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#6

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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NedChesterfield, UK
#7

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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MorayElgin, UK
#8

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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BoWhitby, UK
#9

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#10

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#11

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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SephNorwich, UK
#12

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#13

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#14

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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