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The shortage months and what my pharmacist did

Started 7 December 2025 · 13 replies · 108 hearts · read 800 times

TavitaApia, WS · 7 December 2025
7 months ago

The shortage months and what my pharmacist did Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

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

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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OzrenZagreb, HR
#1

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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OrrinGlasgow, UK
#2

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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GusStirling, UK
#4

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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OttiHarrogate, UK
#5

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

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CallaWellington, NZ
#6

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

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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TillyHereford, UK
#7

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

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

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MarenBremen, DE
#8

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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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#9

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

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CatoAntwerp, BE
#10

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

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

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OttaviaBologna, IT
#11

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

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#12

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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HollisBath, UK
#13

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

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