A peer support community, independent and not for sale. Since February 2024.
A question rather than an update: A&E nights and the first month of nausea
Practical question, and possibly a silly one.
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.
Thanks all. Genuinely.
85
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.
8
Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.
11
Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.
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.
14me too 2
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.
14
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.
9
Reading the reply above, 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.
15me too 4
Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.
10
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.
13
Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.
Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.
13me too 8
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.
15
Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.
I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.
14
No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.
12
My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.
13
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?
11me too 1
Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.
8
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.
12
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.
10me too 5
Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.
It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.
15
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.
10
Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.
15me too 4
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.
14me too 6