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The week I could not train and did not spiral

Started 15 November 2025 · 13 replies · 105 hearts · read 2.3k times

BramGhent, BE · 15 November 2025
8 months ago

The week I could not train and did not spiral — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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.

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

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#1

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

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OndineLausanne, CH
#2

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#3

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#4

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

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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NkemPort Harcourt, NG
#5

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

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RohanPune, IN
#6

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

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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RunaAarhus, DK
#7

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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LenaMunich, DE
#8

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

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BastianFreiburg, DE
#9

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

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MaryamBirmingham, 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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BoWhitby, UK
#11

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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MaritGroningen, NL
#13

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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