My husband thinks I am too old for this

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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