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Week four and I have hit a wall of tiredness

Started 31 March 2024 · 16 replies · 203 hearts · read 2.5k times

SindriReykjavík, IS · 31 March 2024
2.3 years ago

Week four and I have hit a wall of tiredness Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

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.

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 read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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

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BramleyBath, UK
#1

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

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#2

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#3

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

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NualaArmagh, NI
#4

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

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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StefanZurich, CH
#5

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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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#6

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

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

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#7

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

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#8

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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NellaUtrecht, NL
#9

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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BlueStroud, UK
#10

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

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OndineLausanne, CH
#11

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

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OllieCardiff, UK
#12

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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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#13

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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KateBelfast, NI
#14

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

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#15

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

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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BramleyBath, 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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