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Coming back to the circle after four months away

Started 18 June 2025 · 18 replies · 186 hearts · read 4k times

OsgarKillarney, IE · 18 June 2025
about a year ago

A question rather than an update: Coming back to the circle after four months away

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

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 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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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TiborBratislava, SK
#1

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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NerysRhyl, UK
#2

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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#3

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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MaudGhent, BE
#4

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

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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BibiRabat, MA
#5

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

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BronwenBarry, UK
#6

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.

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NoraDublin, IE
#7

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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OsgarKillarney, IE
#8

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

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TiborBratislava, SK
#9

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

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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NerysRhyl, UK
#10

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

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#11

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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MaudGhent, BE
#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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BibiRabat, MA
#13

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

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

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BronwenBarry, UK
#14

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

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NoraDublin, IE
#15

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

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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OsgarKillarney, IE
#16

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.

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#17

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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NerysRhyl, UK
#18

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

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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