My prior authorisation checklist

Started 27 March 2026 · 17 replies · 106 hearts · read 1.8k times

FitzLimerick, IE · 27 March 2026

4 months ago

My prior authorisation checklist — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Money post. No apologies, this circle is for it.

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.

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

TarnKeswick, UK

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

MarthaCork, IE

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

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.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

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.

BodilÅlesund, NO

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

TheaBergen, NO

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

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

TasnimBradford, UK

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

TiernanOmagh, NI

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.

NkechiAbuja, NG

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.

4me too 3

WinkleWeymouth, 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.

BrimHalifax, UK

#10

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

5me too 6

ColNewquay, UK

#11

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.

IdaRotterdam, NL

#12

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

GroverPortland, ME

#13

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.

RayBarnsley, UK

#14

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.

ZebAustin, TX

#15

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

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#16

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

11me too 8

TarnKeswick, UK

#17

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.