Coming off while pregnant — what my obstetrician said

Started 4 October 2025 · 21 replies · 178 hearts · read 3.3k times

BramwellRipon, UK · 4 October 2025

10 months ago

A question rather than an update: Coming off while pregnant — what my obstetrician said

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

Birdie BWhitstable, UK

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.

GudrunAkureyri, IS

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

SinéadCork, IE

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

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

BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria

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.

14me too 6

FenEly, UK

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.

TanviMumbai, IN

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.

GabePhoenix, AZ

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

12me too 3

BronLincoln, UK

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.

DelythBala, UK

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.

DashSeattle, WA

#10

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.

9me too 3

FabianBasel, CH

#11

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

IdaRotterdam, NL

#12

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?

TedIpswich, UK

#13

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

BryonyMalvern, UK

#14

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.

7me too 1

BastianFreiburg, DE

#15

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.

TillyHereford, UK

#16

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

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

NikoTbilisi, GE

#17

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

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.

7me too 5

BramwellRipon, UK

#18

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.

Birdie BWhitstable, UK

#19

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

BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria

#20

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

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

19me too 4

SinéadCork, IE

#21

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

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

8me too 6