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Fibre made it worse before it made it better

Started 23 January 2025 · 19 replies · 196 hearts · read 2.4k times

PerryCardigan, UK · 23 January 2025
1.5 years ago

Fibre made it worse before it made it better — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

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.

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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TamzinPoole, UK
#1

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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?

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#4

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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HarlanDenver, CO
#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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PoppyLeeds, UK
#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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VeraRiga, LV
#7

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

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

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TeganNewport, UK
#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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XanBerlin, DE
#9

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#10

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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PerryCardigan, UK
#11

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

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TamzinPoole, UK
#12

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#13

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

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
#14

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

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#15

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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HarlanDenver, CO
#16

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

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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PoppyLeeds, UK
#17

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#18

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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TeganNewport, UK
#19

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

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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