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I liked my body before and I resent the assumption I did not

Started 25 November 2024 · 20 replies · 221 hearts · read 3.1k times

TavishIsle of Skye, UK · 25 November 2024
1.6 years ago

A question rather than an update: I liked my body before and I resent the assumption I did not

This is a difficult one to write and I have deleted it twice.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#1

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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DotFalmouth, UK
#2

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#3

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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TiborBratislava, SK
#4

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

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ObieNashville, TN
#5

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

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GwythFishguard, UK
#6

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#7

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#8

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

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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OrsolyaBudapest, HU
#9

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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MimiHong Kong
#10

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.

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RinManchester, UK
#11

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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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#12

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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ZenBristol, UK
#13

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

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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NissaHaifa, IL
#14

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

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ClémenceNantes, FR
#15

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

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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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#16

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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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#17

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

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DotFalmouth, UK
#18

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

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#19

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

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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TiborBratislava, SK
#20

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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