Is it meant to feel like this or have I done it wrong

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.