Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both

Started 22 August 2024 · 24 replies · 261 hearts · read 4.2k times

OndineLausanne, CH · 22 August 2024

1.9 years ago

A question rather than an update: Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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.

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

HarriSwansea, UK

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

TanviMumbai, IN

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

MaryamBirmingham, UK

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.

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.

BoWhitby, UK

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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AshwinBengaluru, IN

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

LenaMunich, DE

What the reply above 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.

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

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.

OsricSalisbury, UK

#10

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

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.

RufusGuildford, UK

#11

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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NadineLyon, FR

#12

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.

BastianFreiburg, DE

#13

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

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.

BronLincoln, UK

#14

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

CloverTotnes, UK

#15

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

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

BaySt Ives, 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?

RunaAarhus, DK

#17

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

NemoneLewes, UK

#18

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

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.

ClemmieNorwich, UK

#19

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

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

BramGhent, BE

#20

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

RonanBelfast, NI

#21

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

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

BertrandToulouse, FR

#22

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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#23

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

TaaviTallinn, EE

#24

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

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