Hot flushes and injection day — any pattern

Started 21 September 2024 · 19 replies · 233 hearts · read 4.7k times

LeniLeipzig, DE · 21 September 2024

1.8 years ago

Hot flushes and injection day — any pattern — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

HannahSheffield, UK

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.

WellsChester, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

9me too 3

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

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

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

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

BettinaGraz, AT

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.

10me too 8

Birdie BWhitstable, UK

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

AbramAmsterdam, NL

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

BirdieMargate, UK

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

MarnieAyr, UK

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

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

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

#10

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

HollyBath, UK

#11

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.

CoralieMarseille, FR

#12

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

5me too 3

FenellaCirencester, UK

#13

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

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

HalCambridge, UK

#14

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.

LeniLeipzig, DE

#15

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.

HannahSheffield, UK

#16

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

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

WellsChester, UK

#17

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.

10me too 8

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#18

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

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

#19

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

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