We used to eat together and now we do not

Started 27 August 2024 · 18 replies · 219 hearts · read 4.4k times

OzrenZagreb, HR · 27 August 2024

1.9 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: We used to eat together and now we do not

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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

OmarAmman, JO

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.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

25me too 5

BessLouth, UK

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

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

RufusGuildford, UK

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

ObiLagos, NG

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.

6me too 1

RuaridhFort William, UK

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

CormacWaterford, IE

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

OssieWolverhampton, UK

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

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.

NolwennRennes, FR

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

NikitaYerevan, AM

#10

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.

MapleToronto, CA

#11

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.

OzrenZagreb, HR

#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?

OmarAmman, JO

#13

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

TeganNewport, UK

#14

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

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.

11me too 9

BessLouth, UK

#15

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

RufusGuildford, UK

#16

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.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

#17

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

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

RuaridhFort William, UK

#18

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