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A win after two years of trying

Started 30 May 2025 · 18 replies · 184 hearts · read 2k times

TarnKeswick, UK · 30 May 2025
about a year ago

A win after two years of trying — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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.

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

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

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BodilÅlesund, NO
#1

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#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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IdaRotterdam, NL
#3

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

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

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TiernanOmagh, NI
#4

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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RayBarnsley, UK
#5

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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ColNewquay, UK
#6

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

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BrimHalifax, UK
#7

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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MarthaCork, IE
#8

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

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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FitzLimerick, IE
#9

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

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

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MoBradford, UK
#10

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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ZebAustin, TX
#11

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

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

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GroverPortland, ME
#12

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

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#13

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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TasnimBradford, UK
#14

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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TheaBergen, NO
#15

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

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TarnKeswick, UK
#16

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

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#17

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

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

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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#18

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

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