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What changed for me at the six-month mark

Started 2 December 2024 · 15 replies · 170 hearts · read 2.6k times

BethanPontypridd, UK · 2 December 2024
1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: What changed for me at the six-month mark Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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

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

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#2

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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EspeSeville, ES
#3

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

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

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NedChesterfield, UK
#5

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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TamGlasgow, UK
#6

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#7

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

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DotFalmouth, UK
#8

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

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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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#9

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

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

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OttoPrague, CZ
#10

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
#11

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#12

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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RafeBordeaux, FR
#13

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#14

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#15

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

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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