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Singapore cost and a straightforward private route

Started 25 May 2025 · 12 replies · 144 hearts · read 1.5k times

NadiaCairo, EG · 25 May 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Singapore cost and a straightforward private route

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.

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 have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#1

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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SorayaTehran, IR
#2

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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NikoTbilisi, GE
#3

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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the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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GaelanInverurie, UK
#5

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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NazneenDhaka, BD
#6

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

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NkosiJohannesburg, ZA
#7

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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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#8

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

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MaisieScarborough, UK
#9

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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PipBristol, UK
#10

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.

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

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.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#12

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

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