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Pain and no movement — when to be worried

Started 14 July 2024 · 24 replies · 293 hearts · read 2.4k times

TamzinPoole, UK · 14 July 2024
2 years ago

Pain and no movement — when to be worried — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had 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.

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

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VeraRiga, LV
#1

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
#2

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

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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HarlanDenver, CO
#4

Reading the opening post, 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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OdessaLviv, UA
#5

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

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#6

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

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#7

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

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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XanBerlin, DE
#8

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

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#9

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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TeganNewport, UK
#10

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

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

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TamzinPoole, UK
#11

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

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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VeraRiga, LV
#12

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
#13

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.

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PoppyLeeds, UK
#14

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

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HarlanDenver, CO
#15

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

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OdessaLviv, UA
#16

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

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#17

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#18

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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XanBerlin, DE
#19

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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IvorLlanelli, UK
#20

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

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TeganNewport, UK
#21

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

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TamzinPoole, UK
#22

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

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#23

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.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#24

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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