German prescribing and the Kassenrezept question

Started 17 December 2024 · 24 replies · 269 hearts · read 5.3k times

LinneaTurku, FI · 17 December 2024

1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: German prescribing and the Kassenrezept question Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

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.

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.

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

HéloïseGeneva, CH

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

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.

OmarAmman, JO

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

NellaUtrecht, NL

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

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

12me too 4

IdaRotterdam, NL

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

12me too 3

ClémenceNantes, FR

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.

GittaBonn, DE

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.

ZenBristol, UK

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.

LeniLeipzig, DE

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

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.

NolwennRennes, FR

#10

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

PersisBristol, UK

#11

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

MaudGhent, BE

#12

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

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.

10me too 8

SaraOslo, NO

#13

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

AbramAmsterdam, NL

#14

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.

XanBerlin, DE

#15

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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PolaGdańsk, PL

#16

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.

PerrineStrasbourg, FR

#17

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

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

TacitaRome, IT

#18

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

TheaBergen, NO

#19

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.

BramGhent, BE

#20

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?

EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR

#21

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

MaritGroningen, NL

#22

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

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#23

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

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

LandoLeeds, UK

#24

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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