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Eleven weeks and I have stopped looking

Started 25 May 2025 · 15 replies · 154 hearts · read 1.4k times

TinukeManchester, UK · 25 May 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Eleven weeks and I have stopped looking

Long one, sorry. I have been chewing on this for a fortnight.

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.

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

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#1

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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TarqWindsor, UK
#2

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

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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PerlaManila, PH
#4

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

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

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GrizelKirkcaldy, UK
#5

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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BrennaEnniskillen, NI
#6

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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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#7

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.

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IzzyWatford, UK
#8

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

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VeraRiga, LV
#9

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

9me too 2

CatoAntwerp, BE
#10

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

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#11

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

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PietPretoria, ZA
#12

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

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#13

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

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#14

If any of this has landed close to home for you while reading, our support resources page lists the kinds of services worth finding. No obligation and no drama.

19me too 3

StefanZurich, CH
#15

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

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

10me too 2