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Compliments that felt like an indictment of before

Started 12 September 2025 · 13 replies · 121 hearts · read 1.2k times

OsricSalisbury, UK · 12 September 2025
10 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Compliments that felt like an indictment of before

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

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

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#1

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

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GwythFishguard, UK
#2

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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LulaBournemouth, UK
#3

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

7me too 3

JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

the opening post 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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ObieNashville, TN
#5

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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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#6

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

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NissaHaifa, IL
#7

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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MimiHong Kong
#8

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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ZenBristol, UK
#9

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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RinManchester, UK
#10

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

8me too 5

EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#11

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#12

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

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#13

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

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