Alternating between two extremes and finding no middle

Started 21 April 2026 · 9 replies · 60 hearts · read 652 times

GwythFishguard, UK · 21 April 2026

3 months ago

A question rather than an update: Alternating between two extremes and finding no middle

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

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

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.

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.

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

TamzinPoole, UK

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

3me too 4

PerryCardigan, 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.

XanBerlin, DE

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.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

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

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

LeniLeipzig, DE

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

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

PoppyLeeds, UK

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

8me too 9

IvorLlanelli, UK

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.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

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.

OdessaLviv, UA

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.