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Outback distances and a very good pharmacist

Started 22 April 2025 · 18 replies · 184 hearts · read 2.5k times

NilsUppsala, SE · 22 April 2025
about a year ago

Outback distances and a very good pharmacist Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

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.

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SaffHastings, UK
#1

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

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OttiHarrogate, UK
#2

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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GaelanInverurie, UK
#4

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.

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BramGhent, BE
#5

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

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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TullaTralee, IE
#6

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

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#7

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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ClémenceNantes, FR
#8

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

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#9

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#10

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

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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BoazHaarlem, NL
#11

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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SorrelMachynlleth, UK
#12

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

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CasperOdense, DK
#13

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.

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BrackAlnwick, UK
#14

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

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GwythFishguard, UK
#15

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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DelythBala, UK
#16

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

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#17

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.

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MairéadMayo, IE
#18

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

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