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I stopped at week nine and here is why

Started 19 September 2024 · 24 replies · 284 hearts · read 5.4k times

FabianBasel, CH · 19 September 2024
1.8 years ago

I stopped at week nine and here is why Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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.

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.

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

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FenEly, UK
#1

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

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#3

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

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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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#4

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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DashSeattle, WA
#5

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

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TedIpswich, UK
#6

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

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

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#7

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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TressaSt Austell, UK
#8

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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SinéadCork, IE
#9

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

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BastianFreiburg, DE
#10

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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GabePhoenix, AZ
#11

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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BryonyMalvern, UK
#12

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

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DelythBala, UK
#13

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

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IdaRotterdam, NL
#14

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

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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TillyHereford, UK
#15

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

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BramwellRipon, UK
#16

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.

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BronLincoln, UK
#17

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

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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FabianBasel, CH
#18

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

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FenEly, UK
#19

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

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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TanviMumbai, IN
#20

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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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#21

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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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#22

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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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#23

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

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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TedIpswich, UK
#24

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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