Ginger did nothing for me and I feel cheated

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.