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Refused again, and where I went next

Started 12 April 2026 · 16 replies · 112 hearts · read 1.4k times

GroverPortland, ME · 12 April 2026
3 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Refused again, and where I went next

I have a letter in front of me and I do not know what it actually says.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

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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MoBradford, UK
#1

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.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#2

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#3

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

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ZebAustin, TX
#4

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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TarnKeswick, UK
#5

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.

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#6

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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BodilÅlesund, NO
#7

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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TasnimBradford, UK
#8

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.

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IdaRotterdam, NL
#9

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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TiernanOmagh, NI
#10

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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MarthaCork, IE
#11

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

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

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BrimHalifax, UK
#12

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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ColNewquay, UK
#13

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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RayBarnsley, UK
#14

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#15

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.

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GroverPortland, ME
#16

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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