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What my therapist wanted me to watch for

Started 28 April 2024 · 24 replies · 285 hearts · read 2.3k times

GrizelKirkcaldy, UK · 28 April 2024
2.2 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: What my therapist wanted me to watch for Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#1

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
#2

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

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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PádraigGalway, IE
#3

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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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#4

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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NanNeath, UK
#5

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

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OllieCardiff, UK
#6

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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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#7

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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SableCape Town, ZA
#8

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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SadieSalford, UK
#9

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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RenataKraków, PL
#10

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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RunaAarhus, DK
#11

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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QuinGuildford, UK
#12

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

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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OsricSalisbury, UK
#13

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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GrizelKirkcaldy, UK
#14

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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BramwellNottingham, UK
#15

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.

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GwionBangor, UK
#16

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

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PádraigGalway, IE
#17

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

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#18

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

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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NanNeath, UK
#19

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

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OllieCardiff, UK
#20

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

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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#21

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

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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SableCape Town, ZA
#22

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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RenataKraków, PL
#24

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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