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Balance work I resisted and now do daily

Started 7 September 2024 · 15 replies · 173 hearts · read 2.7k times

OsmanAnkara, TR · 7 September 2024
1.9 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Balance work I resisted and now do daily

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

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#1

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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NikoTbilisi, GE
#2

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#3

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

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#4

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

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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BrimHalifax, UK
#5

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#6

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

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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BertrandToulouse, FR
#7

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

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#8

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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#9

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

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#10

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

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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NikoTbilisi, GE
#11

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

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OllyReading, UK
#12

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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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#13

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

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

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#15

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

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

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