Talking to my GP without dying of embarrassment

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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

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.

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