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How do I know when to ask about slowing down

Started 29 July 2025 · 16 replies · 141 hearts · read 1.7k times

NikoTbilisi, GE · 29 July 2025
12 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: How do I know when to ask about slowing down

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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

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

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#1

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#2

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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NualaArmagh, NI
#3

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

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BramleyBath, UK
#4

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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OllieCardiff, UK
#5

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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OndineLausanne, CH
#6

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

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

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BlueStroud, UK
#7

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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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#8

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

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StefanZurich, CH
#9

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

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#10

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

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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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#11

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#12

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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SindriReykjavík, IS
#13

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

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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KateBelfast, NI
#14

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

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#15

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.

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#16

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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