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Fibre supplements and timing them around the injection

Started 20 February 2025 · 16 replies · 177 hearts · read 3.2k times

HarlanDenver, CO · 20 February 2025
1.4 years ago

Fibre supplements and timing them around the injection — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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 read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#1

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, 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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#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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PoppyLeeds, 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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#5

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

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#6

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

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TamzinPoole, UK
#7

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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TeganNewport, UK
#8

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

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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PerryCardigan, UK
#9

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

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.

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XanBerlin, DE
#10

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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HarlanDenver, CO
#11

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

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GwythFishguard, UK
#12

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

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OdessaLviv, UA
#13

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

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VeraRiga, LV
#14

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

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.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#15

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

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#16

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

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