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A relapse warning sign I nearly missed

Started 21 June 2025 · 15 replies · 148 hearts · read 3.1k times

OllieCardiff, UK · 21 June 2025
about a year ago

A question rather than an update: A relapse warning sign I nearly missed

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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.

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.

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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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#1

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

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#2

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#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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OsricSalisbury, UK
#4

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

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

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SableCape Town, ZA
#5

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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GrizelKirkcaldy, UK
#6

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

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

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SadieSalford, UK
#7

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.

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NanNeath, UK
#8

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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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#9

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

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

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RenataKraków, PL
#10

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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GwionBangor, UK
#11

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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PádraigGalway, IE
#12

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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QuinGuildford, UK
#13

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

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#14

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#15

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

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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