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Six weeks of not managing anything and my nurse noticing

Started 6 January 2025 · 18 replies · 213 hearts · read 3.9k times

NúriaBarcelona, ES · 6 January 2025
1.5 years ago

A question rather than an update: Six weeks of not managing anything and my nurse noticing

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

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.

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

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

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TiborBratislava, SK
#1

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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#2

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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NerysRhyl, UK
#3

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
#4

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

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MaudGhent, BE
#5

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

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BronwenBarry, UK
#6

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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BibiRabat, MA
#7

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

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#8

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

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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TiborBratislava, SK
#9

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
#10

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

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

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NerysRhyl, UK
#11

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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NoraDublin, IE
#12

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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MaudGhent, BE
#13

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

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BronwenBarry, UK
#14

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

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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BibiRabat, MA
#15

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

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

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#16

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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#17

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#18

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

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