Respite that finally happened

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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

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?

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.