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Restaurants where I have never had a problem

Started 27 January 2025 · 15 replies · 177 hearts · read 2.4k times

PerryCardigan, UK · 27 January 2025
1.5 years ago

Restaurants where I have never had a problem — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

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.

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

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#1

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

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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#2

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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WystanCheltenham, UK
#3

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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#4

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

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GildaTrieste, IT
#5

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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Bell ANorwich, UK
#6

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

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NkosiJohannesburg, ZA
#7

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

11me too 3

TavitaApia, WS
#8

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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OttiHarrogate, UK
#9

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

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NolCork, IE
#10

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

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

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#11

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

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KateBelfast, NI
#12

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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AmbroseYork, UK
#13

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

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

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#14

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#15

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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