A sibling who thinks I took the easy way

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

the reply above — 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.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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

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

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.

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.