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Everyone says trust the process and I want to scream

Started 13 August 2025 · 20 replies · 176 hearts · read 2.8k times

NedChesterfield, UK · 13 August 2025
11 months ago

Everyone says trust the process and I want to scream Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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AleksLjubljana, SI
#1

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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PersisBristol, UK
#3

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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NkechiAbuja, NG
#4

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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Bell ANorwich, UK
#5

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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NylaNairobi, KE
#6

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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NadirCasablanca, MA
#7

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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BramSheffield, UK
#8

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

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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RenataKraków, PL
#9

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

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#10

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

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

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IzzyWatford, UK
#11

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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NazneenDhaka, BD
#12

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

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

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BronLincoln, UK
#13

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#14

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

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TinukeManchester, UK
#15

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

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PetuaKampala, UG
#16

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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TacitaRome, IT
#17

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

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OssieWolverhampton, UK
#18

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#19

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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PerduMontpellier, FR
#20

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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