The safety plan I built before starting

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

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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