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My gut settled completely by month five

Started 8 December 2024 · 19 replies · 205 hearts · read 4.3k times

PerryCardigan, UK · 8 December 2024
1.6 years ago

My gut settled completely by month five — 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.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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 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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IvorLlanelli, UK
#1

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

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HarlanDenver, CO
#2

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

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#3

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#4

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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PoppyLeeds, UK
#5

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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TeganNewport, UK
#6

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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TamzinPoole, UK
#7

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

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#8

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
#9

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.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#10

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#11

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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IvorLlanelli, UK
#12

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

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HarlanDenver, CO
#13

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

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

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OdessaLviv, UA
#14

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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XanBerlin, DE
#15

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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PoppyLeeds, UK
#16

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

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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TeganNewport, UK
#17

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

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#19

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

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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