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The endoscopy I had before starting

Started 8 July 2025 · 12 replies · 126 hearts · read 1.7k times

GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK · 8 July 2025
about a year ago

Something I have been sitting with: The endoscopy I had before starting Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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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NoraDublin, IE
#1

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

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BrackenHexham, UK
#2

What the opening post 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.

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BramberSteyning, UK
#3

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#4

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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PosyChichester, UK
#5

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

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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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#6

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

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#7

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

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BibiRabat, MA
#8

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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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#9

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

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AleksLjubljana, SI
#10

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#11

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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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#12

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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