Two countries, one prescription, a lot of paperwork

Started 22 July 2025 · 15 replies · 142 hearts · read 2.4k times

OskarWarsaw, PL · 22 July 2025

12 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Two countries, one prescription, a lot of paperwork

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

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

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 will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

LinneaTurku, FI

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.

6me too 7

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

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.

ZenBristol, UK

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

HeddaCopenhagen, DK

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

TacitaRome, IT

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

XanBerlin, DE

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

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.

10me too 3

BoazHaarlem, NL

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

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.

BertieHarrogate, UK

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

OdessaLviv, UA

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

NúriaBarcelona, ES

#10

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

LandoLeeds, UK

#11

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

GilTel Aviv, IL

#12

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

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.

OmarAmman, JO

#13

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

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#14

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.

18me too 5

TommieEly, UK

#15

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.