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My relationship with cooking changed completely

Started 3 May 2025 · 13 replies · 143 hearts · read 2.8k times

TavishIsle of Skye, UK · 3 May 2025
about a year ago

A question rather than an update: My relationship with cooking changed completely

This is a difficult one to write and I have deleted it twice.

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.

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.

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

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MaryamBirmingham, UK
#1

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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SalmaManchester, UK
#2

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

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CloverTotnes, UK
#3

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

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

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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PosyChichester, UK
#5

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.

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TinukeManchester, UK
#6

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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NadiaCairo, EG
#7

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

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

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MaritGroningen, NL
#8

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.

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LuPreston, UK
#9

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.

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BodhiByron Bay, AU
#10

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

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BramGhent, BE
#11

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#12

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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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#13

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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