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Side effects changed after switching and I did not expect that

Started 3 June 2025 · 15 replies · 143 hearts · read 2.6k times

SunnivaBodø, NO · 3 June 2025
about a year ago

Something I have been sitting with: Side effects changed after switching and I did not expect that Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Money post. No apologies, this circle is for 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.

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.

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#1

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

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DevManchester, UK
#2

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

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

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.

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#4

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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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#5

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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MaeveSligo, IE
#6

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

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

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#7

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

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XanBerlin, DE
#8

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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BoazHaarlem, NL
#9

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

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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SunnivaBodø, NO
#10

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

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AurelBucharest, RO
#11

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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DevManchester, UK
#12

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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SaskiaThe Hague, NL
#13

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

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#14

If any of this has landed close to home for you while reading, our support resources page lists the kinds of services worth finding. No obligation and no drama.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#15

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

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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