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What the pharmacist wanted to know before dispensing

Started 22 August 2025 · 13 replies · 134 hearts · read 1.9k times

SaskiaThe Hague, NL · 22 August 2025
11 months ago

What the pharmacist wanted to know before dispensing Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have a letter in front of me and I do not know what it actually says.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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

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.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#1

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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DevManchester, UK
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#4

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

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AurelBucharest, RO
#5

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

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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SunnivaBodø, NO
#6

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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MaeveSligo, IE
#7

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

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BoazHaarlem, NL
#8

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

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#9

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

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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SaskiaThe Hague, NL
#10

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

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#11

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

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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XanBerlin, DE
#13

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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