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I stopped weighing myself and the plateau stopped mattering as much

Started 31 October 2024 · 23 replies · 250 hearts · read 5.1k times

OrvalWinnipeg, CA · 31 October 2024
1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: I stopped weighing myself and the plateau stopped mattering as much Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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

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.

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.

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

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#1

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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NadjaBelgrade, RS
#3

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

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#4

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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IzoldaVilnius, LT
#5

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

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ShadeIbadan, NG
#6

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

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#7

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

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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NissaHaifa, IL
#8

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

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AikoOsaka, JP
#9

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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PerlaManila, PH
#10

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
#11

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

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BramberSteyning, UK
#12

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

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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BrackAlnwick, UK
#13

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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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#14

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

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#15

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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TanviMumbai, IN
#16

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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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#17

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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LandoLeeds, UK
#18

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

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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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#19

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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OsipTbilisi, GE
#20

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

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IzzyWatford, UK
#21

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#22

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OzrenZagreb, HR
#23

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

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