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Portugal and a very good family doctor

Started 30 March 2026 · 18 replies · 124 hearts · read 2.4k times

XanBerlin, DE · 30 March 2026
4 months ago

Portugal and a very good family doctor — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

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.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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ZenBristol, UK
#1

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

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

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BramGhent, BE
#3

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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TamzinPoole, UK
#4

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

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GildaTrieste, IT
#5

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

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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CatoAntwerp, BE
#6

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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BibiRabat, MA
#7

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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DelphiThessaloniki, GR
#8

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

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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HeddaCopenhagen, DK
#9

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

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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MarenBremen, DE
#10

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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ClémenceNantes, FR
#11

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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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#12

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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FenellaCirencester, UK
#13

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

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

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#14

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#15

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

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

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TommieEly, UK
#16

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.

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#17

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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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#18

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

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

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