Telehealth that actually took a new patient

Started 5 June 2026 · 11 replies · 68 hearts · read 1.2k times

SaffHastings, UK · 5 June 2026

1 month ago

Something I have been sitting with: Telehealth that actually took a new patient Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

This is the boring administrative kind of problem, which I gather is the kind that actually gets solved.

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.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

TavitaApia, WS

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.

SindriReykjavík, IS

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.

TullaTralee, IE

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.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

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

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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BessLouth, UK

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

BrackAlnwick, UK

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.

BryherIsles of Scilly, UK

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

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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BridieWexford, IE

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

BramGhent, BE

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.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#10

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

IslaOban, UK

#11

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

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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