The pharmacist was in a hurry and I did not ask anything

Started 15 April 2026 · 8 replies · 52 hearts · read 561 times

OllieCardiff, UK · 15 April 2026

3 months ago

A question rather than an update: The pharmacist was in a hurry and I did not ask anything

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

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

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

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.

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

TychoLeiden, NL

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

BodhiByron Bay, AU

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

CormacWaterford, IE

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.

7me too 2

PerduMontpellier, FR

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

TorinBelfast, NI

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

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Building on what the reply above 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.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

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