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Seven medications and a pharmacist review that changed three of them

Started 29 January 2025 · 14 replies · 153 hearts · read 2.1k times

BrimHalifax, UK · 29 January 2025
1.5 years ago

A question rather than an update: Seven medications and a pharmacist review that changed three of them

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

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.

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.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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OllyReading, UK
#1

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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#2

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

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#3

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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OttilieCheshire, UK
#4

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

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#5

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

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#6

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

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#7

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

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#8

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

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

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BrimHalifax, UK
#9

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

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OllyReading, UK
#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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#11

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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BertrandToulouse, FR
#12

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

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#13

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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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#14

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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