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Nausea and eating

Nausea after a shortage-forced restart

Started 9 January 2026 · 15 replies · 118 hearts · read 1k times

GwynethAberdare, UK · 9 January 2026
6 months ago

A question rather than an update: Nausea after a shortage-forced restart

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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MimiHong Kong
#1

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, 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.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#3

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

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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PerlaManila, PH
#4

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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DaraAthlone, IE
#5

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.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#6

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

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RayBarnsley, UK
#7

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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TemSouthend, UK
#8

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

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#9

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

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

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CasperOdense, DK
#10

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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BramleyBath, UK
#11

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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VivLuton, UK
#12

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

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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WilfStoke, UK
#13

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

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#14

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#15

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

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