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I paused for two months and it was the right call

Started 10 May 2025 · 16 replies · 161 hearts · read 2k times

IlyaAlmaty, KZ · 10 May 2025
about a year ago

A question rather than an update: I paused for two months and it was the right call

I have a letter in front of me and I do not know what it actually says.

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.

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.

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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GwennoPwllheli, UK
#1

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

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MoBradford, UK
#2

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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ZoëHackney, UK
#4

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

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

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SaffHastings, UK
#5

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

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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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#6

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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GavinDundee, UK
#7

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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KateBelfast, NI
#8

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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OttoPrague, CZ
#9

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

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PeronelCanterbury, UK
#10

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

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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HettieLancaster, UK
#11

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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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#12

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

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GwennoPwllheli, UK
#13

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

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MoBradford, UK
#14

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

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#15

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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ZoëHackney, UK
#16

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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