When do you tell people, if ever

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.

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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