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Climbing, weight and a complicated relationship with both

Started 12 August 2024 · 24 replies · 295 hearts · read 4.8k times

PolaGdańsk, PL · 12 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Climbing, weight and a complicated relationship with both — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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HarriSwansea, UK
#1

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

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

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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RinManchester, UK
#3

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

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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BronLincoln, UK
#4

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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PamSouthport, UK
#5

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

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

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BodilÅlesund, NO
#6

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

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BaySt Ives, UK
#7

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

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ClémenceNantes, FR
#8

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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RonanBelfast, NI
#9

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?

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NolanHalifax, CA
#10

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

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RufusGuildford, UK
#11

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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OndineLausanne, CH
#12

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

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

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RunaAarhus, DK
#13

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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BramGhent, BE
#14

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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BoWhitby, UK
#15

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

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TressaSt Austell, UK
#16

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.

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#17

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

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

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MaryamBirmingham, UK
#18

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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LenaMunich, DE
#19

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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MaritGroningen, NL
#20

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

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TacitaRome, IT
#21

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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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#22

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#23

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

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RohanPune, IN
#24

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

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

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