Ontario versus Alberta, from someone who moved

Started 7 October 2024 · 21 replies · 263 hearts · read 3.3k times

BassCoventry, UK · 7 October 2024

1.8 years ago

A question rather than an update: Ontario versus Alberta, from someone who moved

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

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

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.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

NadjaBelgrade, RS

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

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.

KaiVancouver, CA

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

MapleToronto, CA

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

AurelBucharest, RO

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.

IvorLlanelli, UK

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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OrphBath, UK

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

TamsinRedruth, UK

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

OrvalWinnipeg, CA

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

OrrinGlasgow, UK

#10

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#11

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

NolanHalifax, CA

#12

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

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.

BassCoventry, UK

#13

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

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.

NadjaBelgrade, RS

#14

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.

XanBerlin, DE

#15

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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

KaiVancouver, CA

#16

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.

MapleToronto, CA

#17

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.

AurelBucharest, RO

#18

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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IvorLlanelli, UK

#19

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#20

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.

TamsinRedruth, UK

#21

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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