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Boredom I had been eating over, now visible

Started 21 December 2025 · 11 replies · 83 hearts · read 1.7k times

OsgarKillarney, IE · 21 December 2025
7 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Boredom I had been eating over, now visible Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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.

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.

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.

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FreyaReykjavík, IS
#1

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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NualaArmagh, NI
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

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TinukeManchester, UK
#3

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

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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LuPreston, UK
#5

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

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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CallaWellington, NZ
#6

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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SaraOslo, NO
#7

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

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IzzyWatford, UK
#8

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

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

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BramGhent, BE
#9

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

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#10

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

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MaritGroningen, NL
#11

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

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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