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Cooking for one in a kitchen with no equipment

Started 1 July 2025 · 22 replies · 221 hearts · read 2.5k times

TansyLudlow, UK · 1 July 2025
about a year ago

Cooking for one in a kitchen with no equipment Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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

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

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#1

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#2

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NevGrimsby, UK
#3

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

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#4

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

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

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EspeSeville, ES
#5

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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DashSeattle, WA
#6

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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HettieLancaster, UK
#7

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

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

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ZoëHackney, UK
#8

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

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BevanSwansea, 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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PrueChester, 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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ObieNashville, TN
#11

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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BeaDublin, IE
#12

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

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

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ShadeIbadan, NG
#13

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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MintaColchester, UK
#14

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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OllyReading, UK
#15

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

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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TiernanOmagh, NI
#16

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

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TansyLudlow, UK
#17

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#18

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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PriyaReading, UK
#19

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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NevGrimsby, UK
#20

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#21

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

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

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EspeSeville, ES
#22

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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