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What Janoshik reports and what it does not claim

Started 8 April 2025 · 20 replies · 211 hearts · read 1.7k times

YannickBrussels, BE · 8 April 2025
1.3 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: What Janoshik reports and what it does not claim

I have read the paper and I am not sure I have understood it.

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.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

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HettyCambridge, UK
#1

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

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SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK
#2

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

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PatrickLimerick, IE
#3

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

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.

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ZebAustin, TX
#4

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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IlseMaastricht, NL
#5

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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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#6

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

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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SephNorwich, UK
#7

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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TasnimBradford, UK
#8

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.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#9

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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TorKeswick, UK
#10

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

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

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DaraAthlone, IE
#11

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

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HollyBath, UK
#12

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?

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TobinCork, IE
#13

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

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

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WystanCheltenham, UK
#14

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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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#15

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

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

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#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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NadjaBelgrade, RS
#17

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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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#18

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

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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SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK
#19

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

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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HettyCambridge, UK
#20

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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