How I ordered at a Nigerian family celebration

Started 7 November 2024 · 22 replies · 258 hearts · read 4.1k times

AmbroseYork, UK · 7 November 2024

1.7 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: How I ordered at a Nigerian family celebration

Practical question, and possibly a silly 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.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

DelphiThessaloniki, GR

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

NkosiJohannesburg, ZA

Reading the opening post, 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.

WystanCheltenham, UK

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

13me too 8

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

Bell ANorwich, UK

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.

NolCork, IE

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.

KateBelfast, NI

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, 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.

OsgarKillarney, IE

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.

8me too 2

WinkleWeymouth, UK

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

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.

GwilymCaernarfon, UK

#10

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

PerryCardigan, UK

#11

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

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

TavitaApia, WS

#12

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

GildaTrieste, IT

#13

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.

14me too 4

AmbroseYork, UK

#14

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

DelphiThessaloniki, GR

#15

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

NkosiJohannesburg, ZA

#16

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

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

WystanCheltenham, UK

#17

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

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.

OttiHarrogate, UK

#18

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.

10me too 9

Bell ANorwich, UK

#19

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

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

NolCork, IE

#20

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

14me too 8

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#21

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.

OsgarKillarney, IE

#22

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.