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How I explained interoception to my GP

Started 5 March 2025 · 20 replies · 249 hearts · read 3.5k times

SoniaValencia, ES · 5 March 2025
1.4 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: How I explained interoception to my GP

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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.

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

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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ObieNashville, TN
#1

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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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#3

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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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#4

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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Bryn MNeath, UK
#5

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

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TarqWindsor, UK
#6

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

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TacitaRome, IT
#7

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

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#8

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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NixLeith, UK
#9

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

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#10

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

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TobiasHamburg, DE
#11

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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SoniaValencia, ES
#12

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

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

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ObieNashville, TN
#13

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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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#14

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

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#15

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

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

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WilfStoke, UK
#16

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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Bryn MNeath, UK
#17

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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TarqWindsor, UK
#18

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

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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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#19

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

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#20

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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