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Nausea and eating

The difference between full and finished

Started 15 October 2024 · 15 replies · 183 hearts · read 1.7k times

GabePhoenix, AZ · 15 October 2024
1.8 years ago

The difference between full and finished Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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.

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.

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.

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

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BramleyBath, UK
#1

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

11me too 7

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

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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MimiHong Kong
#3

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

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#4

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#5

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

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#6

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.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#7

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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WilfStoke, UK
#8

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

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

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VivLuton, UK
#9

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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PerlaManila, PH
#10

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

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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DaraAthlone, IE
#11

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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IlseMaastricht, NL
#12

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

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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CasperOdense, DK
#13

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

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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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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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#15

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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