Chair-based work that genuinely built strength

Started 28 March 2026 · 13 replies · 89 hearts · read 1.3k times

OndineLausanne, CH · 28 March 2026

4 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Chair-based work that genuinely built strength Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

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

BastianFreiburg, DE

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

10me too 5

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

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

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.

MaritGroningen, NL

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

OsricSalisbury, UK

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

NemoneLewes, UK

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

RufusGuildford, UK

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

BramGhent, BE

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

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

5me too 6

BertrandToulouse, FR

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.

RonanBelfast, NI

#10

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

TanviMumbai, IN

#11

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

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#12

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.

BoWhitby, UK

#13

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.