Masters athletics at 61

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.

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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