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A savings card that halved it for a year Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.
Money post. No apologies, this circle is for it.
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.
The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.
Thanks all. Genuinely.
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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.
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What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.
The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.
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Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.
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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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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.
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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.
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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My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.
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No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.
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Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.
I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.
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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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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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It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.
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Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.
I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.
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Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.
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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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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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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