The pharmacist queried it and I did not know what to say

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

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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?

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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