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Sleep that broke and then partly mended

Started 7 October 2024 · 13 replies · 152 hearts · read 3.1k times

BirdieMargate, UK · 7 October 2024
1.8 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Sleep that broke and then partly mended

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

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

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 have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#1

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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HannahSheffield, UK
#2

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

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#3

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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HalCambridge, UK
#5

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

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#6

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

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

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#7

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

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.

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HollyBath, UK
#8

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

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#9

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

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#10

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

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BettinaGraz, AT
#11

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#12

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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MarnieAyr, UK
#13

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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