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Cheap protein that is actually edible

Started 17 December 2025 · 19 replies · 157 hearts · read 2.2k times

PriyaReading, UK · 17 December 2025
7 months ago

A question rather than an update: Cheap protein that is actually edible

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

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.

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.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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

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DashSeattle, WA
#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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Bell ANorwich, 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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

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TansyLudlow, UK
#4

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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BevanSwansea, UK
#5

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

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OllyReading, UK
#6

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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TiernanOmagh, NI
#7

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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ZoëHackney, UK
#8

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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MintaColchester, UK
#9

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.

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ShadeIbadan, NG
#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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HettieLancaster, UK
#11

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

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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BeaDublin, IE
#12

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

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NevGrimsby, UK
#13

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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DaraAthlone, IE
#14

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

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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PrueChester, UK
#15

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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ObieNashville, TN
#16

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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PriyaReading, UK
#17

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

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#18

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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Bell ANorwich, UK
#19

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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