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Ramadan, injection timing and my doctor's advice

Started 7 February 2026 · 15 replies · 113 hearts · read 1.3k times

NyalaAddis Ababa, ET · 7 February 2026
5 months ago

Ramadan, injection timing and my doctor's advice — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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.

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

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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NylaNairobi, KE
#1

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

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AbelAddis Ababa, ET
#2

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

8me too 6

NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#3

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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PipBristol, UK
#4

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.

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HettieLancaster, UK
#5

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.

8me too 2

PerlaManila, PH
#6

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#7

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.

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RohanPune, IN
#8

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.

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SableCape Town, ZA
#9

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

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PetuaKampala, UG
#10

What the reply above 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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#11

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.

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#12

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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NikitaYerevan, AM
#13

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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#14

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

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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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK
#15

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

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