India, a vegetarian plate and a small appetite

Started 12 March 2026 · 17 replies · 122 hearts · read 2.4k times

NazneenDhaka, BD · 12 March 2026

4 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: India, a vegetarian plate and a small appetite Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

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.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

TanviMumbai, IN

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?

Gwen DAberystwyth, UK

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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

OsmanAnkara, TR

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

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.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

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12me too 9

AmmiKarachi, PK

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.

OsipTbilisi, GE

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.

RaviLeicester, UK

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

8me too 5

NkechiAbuja, NG

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

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

RohanPune, IN

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

ÖzlemIzmir, TR

#10

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

4me too 1

DelphiThessaloniki, GR

#11

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.

BryherIsles of Scilly, UK

#12

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

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

SorayaTehran, IR

#13

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

7me too 3

ObiLagos, NG

#14

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

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

#15

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

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.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#16

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.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#17

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.