What changed when I slowed down

Started 21 December 2025 · 17 replies · 133 hearts · read 2.8k times

TaaviTallinn, EE · 21 December 2025

7 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: What changed when I slowed down

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

PerrinNice, FR

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.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

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

MaudGhent, BE

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

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

8me too 7

VivLuton, UK

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.

LarkGalway, IE

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

NadirCasablanca, MA

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

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?

PersisBristol, UK

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

GwenBangor, UK

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

BrammyBelfast, NI

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.

NanNeath, UK

#10

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

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.

8me too 9

RaviLeicester, UK

#11

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

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

CasperOdense, DK

#12

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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BrimHalifax, UK

#13

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.

HéloïseGeneva, CH

#14

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.

PeggyRotherham, UK

#15

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

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#16

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

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.

MarenBremen, DE

#17

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