Two years in and my lifts are back

Started 5 May 2025 · 15 replies · 153 hearts · read 1.8k times

RonanBelfast, NI · 5 May 2025

about a year ago

A question rather than an update: Two years in and my lifts are back

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

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

BramGhent, BE

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

HarriSwansea, UK

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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

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.

BodilÅlesund, NO

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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InêsPorto, PT

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

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

PamSouthport, UK

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.

ClemmieNorwich, UK

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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BoWhitby, UK

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

RinManchester, UK

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

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.

TressaSt Austell, UK

#10

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

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BaySt Ives, UK

#11

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

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

BronLincoln, UK

#12

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

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MaritGroningen, NL

#13

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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#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.

PolaGdańsk, PL

#15

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