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What to have in the house before you begin

Started 13 May 2024 · 21 replies · 245 hearts · read 2.2k times

SephNorwich, UK · 13 May 2024
2.2 years ago

What to have in the house before you begin Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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CormacWaterford, IE
#1

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#2

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TasnimBradford, UK
#3

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

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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PerduMontpellier, FR
#4

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

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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#5

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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SerenLlandudno, UK
#6

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

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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OsipTbilisi, GE
#7

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

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BodhiByron Bay, AU
#8

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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OllieCardiff, UK
#9

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

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

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TommieEly, UK
#10

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.

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TorinBelfast, NI
#11

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.

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TychoLeiden, NL
#12

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.

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SaskiaThe Hague, NL
#13

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

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SephNorwich, UK
#14

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

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

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CormacWaterford, IE
#15

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

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DelphiThessaloniki, GR
#16

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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TasnimBradford, UK
#17

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

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

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PerduMontpellier, FR
#18

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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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#19

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#20

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

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.

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OsipTbilisi, GE
#21

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.

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