Spreading protein across the day — does it matter

Started 30 March 2025 · 20 replies · 191 hearts · read 3.1k times

RonanBelfast, NI · 30 March 2025

1.3 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Spreading protein across the day — does it matter

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

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

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

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

AnnikaStockholm, SE

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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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BronLincoln, UK

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

9me too 3

TanviMumbai, IN

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.

12me too 8

BoWhitby, UK

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.

RunaAarhus, DK

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.

OsricSalisbury, UK

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

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

ClemmieNorwich, UK

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

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.

RohanPune, IN

#10

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

10me too 4

RufusGuildford, UK

#11

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

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.

TaaviTallinn, EE

#12

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.

NadineLyon, FR

#13

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

NemoneLewes, UK

#14

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.

BertrandToulouse, FR

#15

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.

MaryamBirmingham, UK

#16

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

9me too 4

BaySt Ives, UK

#17

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

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?

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

#18

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

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#19

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

MaritGroningen, NL

#20

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.