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The concentration was different and I nearly got it wrong

Started 22 December 2024 · 14 replies · 178 hearts · read 3.1k times

XanBerlin, DE · 22 December 2024
1.6 years ago

The concentration was different and I nearly got it wrong — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Money post. No apologies, this circle is for it.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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BoazHaarlem, NL
#1

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#2

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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DevManchester, UK
#3

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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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#4

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

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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SunnivaBodø, NO
#5

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

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

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

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SaskiaThe Hague, NL
#7

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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RuaridhFort William, UK
#8

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
#9

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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XanBerlin, DE
#10

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

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BoazHaarlem, NL
#11

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#12

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#13

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#14

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

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

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