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Eighteen months in and my Wednesdays are just Wednesdays

Started 21 March 2025 · 16 replies · 170 hearts · read 2.2k times

WinnieCarlisle, UK · 21 March 2025
1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Eighteen months in and my Wednesdays are just Wednesdays Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#1

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

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#2

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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WystanCheltenham, UK
#3

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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NevGrimsby, UK
#4

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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BexPlymouth, UK
#5

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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TressaSt Austell, UK
#6

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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BirdieMargate, UK
#7

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.

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SephNorwich, UK
#8

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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LarkGalway, IE
#9

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

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

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BoazHaarlem, NL
#10

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.

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TabbyMargate, UK
#11

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

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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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#12

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

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OrsolyaBudapest, HU
#13

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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KaiVancouver, CA
#14

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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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#15

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.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#16

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

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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