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How I get it in when nothing appeals

Started 13 October 2025 · 18 replies · 152 hearts · read 2k times

OsricSalisbury, UK · 13 October 2025
9 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: How I get it in when nothing appeals

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.

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.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#1

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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NemoneLewes, UK
#2

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

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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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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TabbyMargate, UK
#4

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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TanviMumbai, IN
#5

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

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BoWhitby, UK
#6

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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OndineLausanne, CH
#7

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

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

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#8

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.

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BramGhent, BE
#9

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

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

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RonanBelfast, NI
#10

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

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LenaMunich, DE
#11

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

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RohanPune, IN
#12

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

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NadineLyon, FR
#13

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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MaritGroningen, NL
#14

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

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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ClemmieNorwich, UK
#15

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#16

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

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RunaAarhus, DK
#18

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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