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Signs of dehydration I did not recognise as dehydration

Started 9 June 2024 · 23 replies · 281 hearts · read 2.9k times

CasperOdense, DK · 9 June 2024
2.1 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Signs of dehydration I did not recognise as dehydration

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.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about 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.

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MarenBremen, DE
#1

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

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NanNeath, UK
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

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RaviLeicester, UK
#3

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.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#4

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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LarkGalway, IE
#5

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

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.

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GwenBangor, UK
#6

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

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PerrinNice, FR
#7

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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NilsUppsala, SE
#8

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

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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VivLuton, UK
#9

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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OsipTbilisi, GE
#10

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.

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PersisBristol, UK
#11

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.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#12

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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PeggyRotherham, UK
#13

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

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BaySt Ives, UK
#14

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

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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TaaviTallinn, EE
#15

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

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#16

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

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

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MaudGhent, BE
#17

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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BrammyBelfast, NI
#18

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

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CasperOdense, DK
#19

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

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MarenBremen, DE
#20

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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NanNeath, UK
#21

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

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.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#22

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

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HéloïseGeneva, CH
#23

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

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