What I found when I looked honestly at my drinking

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

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

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

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

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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.

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

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

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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