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How I rearranged my week around the bad days

Started 2 March 2025 · 17 replies · 172 hearts · read 1.5k times

TorrinAberdeen, UK · 2 March 2025
1.4 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: How I rearranged my week around the bad days Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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RufusGuildford, UK
#1

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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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#2

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

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.

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KezWigan, UK
#3

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

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SunnivaBodø, NO
#4

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#5

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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PeggyRotherham, UK
#6

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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BassCoventry, UK
#7

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

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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NorahDerry, NI
#8

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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HuwWrexham, UK
#9

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

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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Ollie OPeterhead, UK
#10

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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NoahHull, UK
#11

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

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MarenBremen, DE
#12

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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TobySwindon, UK
#13

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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GildaTrieste, IT
#14

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

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

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SinéadCork, IE
#15

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

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#16

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.

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BrunoMilan, IT
#17

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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