Month four and the shower drain

Started 16 April 2025 · 15 replies · 144 hearts · read 1.4k times

MargueriteQuebec City, CA · 16 April 2025

1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Month four and the shower drain 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.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

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.

MairéadMayo, IE

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

12me too 1

GroverPortland, ME

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

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

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.

WinnieCarlisle, UK

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

FabianBasel, CH

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

WystanCheltenham, UK

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

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.

DillyNewport, UK

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

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.

BlySheffield, UK

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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OsmanAnkara, TR

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.

PerrinNice, FR

#10

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

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.

AnnikaStockholm, SE

#11

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?

OttoPrague, CZ

#12

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

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.

GudrunAkureyri, IS

#13

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

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#14

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

20me too 1

CoralieMarseille, FR

#15

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

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