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The anti-sickness tablet conversation with my GP

Started 3 April 2024 · 23 replies · 298 hearts · read 4.3k times

BryonyMalvern, UK · 3 April 2024
2.3 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: The anti-sickness tablet conversation with my GP

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#1

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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GwynethAberdare, UK
#2

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

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#3

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#4

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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RayBarnsley, UK
#5

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

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TemSouthend, UK
#6

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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BramleyBath, UK
#7

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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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#8

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

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
#9

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

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WilfStoke, UK
#10

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

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DaraAthlone, IE
#11

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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IlseMaastricht, NL
#12

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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CasperOdense, DK
#13

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

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

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#14

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

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VivLuton, UK
#15

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

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

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MimiHong Kong
#16

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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RenataKraków, PL
#17

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

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#18

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

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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BryonyMalvern, UK
#19

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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GabePhoenix, AZ
#20

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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GwynethAberdare, UK
#21

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#22

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

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#23

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.

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