What my consultant wanted monitored

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.

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

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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.

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

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.

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

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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.

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.

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

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

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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.