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What was underneath it, once it went

Started 19 December 2024 · 11 replies · 122 hearts · read 1.4k times

IzzyWatford, UK · 19 December 2024
1.6 years ago

What was underneath it, once it went — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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MaeveSligo, IE
#1

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

the opening post 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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MapleToronto, CA
#3

Building on what the opening post 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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BramGhent, BE
#4

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

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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#5

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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TinukeManchester, UK
#6

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

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AnnaAthens, GR
#7

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

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SaraOslo, NO
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

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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DillyNewport, UK
#9

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#10

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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CallaWellington, NZ
#11

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

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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