The first one I did without thinking about it

Started 3 August 2025 · 18 replies · 166 hearts · read 2.4k times

CatoAntwerp, BE · 3 August 2025

12 months ago

The first one I did without thinking about it Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

NylaNairobi, KE

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?

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

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.

TedIpswich, UK

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

8me too 2

BrackAlnwick, UK

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.

ZoëHackney, 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.

SaraOslo, NO

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

8me too 7

NadirCasablanca, MA

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

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

GaelanInverurie, UK

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

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.

TabbyMargate, UK

#10

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

OrlaithDonegal, IE

#11

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

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

BrodyDunfermline, UK

#12

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.

PerrineStrasbourg, FR

#13

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.

GavinDundee, UK

#14

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

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

DelythBala, UK

#15

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.

9me too 3

SableCape Town, ZA

#16

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#17

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

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

OttaviaBologna, IT

#18

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