A bad fortnight followed by a fine one, in case that is useful

Started 14 June 2026 · 14 replies · 85 hearts · read 993 times

BlueStroud, UK · 14 June 2026

1 month ago

A bad fortnight followed by a fine one, in case that is useful — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

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.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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

KateBelfast, NI

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?

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

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.

StefanZurich, CH

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

6me too 8

NikoTbilisi, GE

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

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.

Obi OEnugu, NG

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

5me too 4

BramleyBath, UK

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

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

OllieCardiff, UK

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.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

#10

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

NualaArmagh, NI

#11

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

OndineLausanne, CH

#12

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#13

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

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

NellaUtrecht, NL

#14

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