What I did differently about food this time

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.