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Plateau plus a dose increase that did nothing

Started 17 August 2024 · 19 replies · 217 hearts · read 1.6k times

RomyVienna, AT · 17 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Plateau plus a dose increase that did nothing Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

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.

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

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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BrennaEnniskillen, NI
#1

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

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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BibiRabat, MA
#3

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

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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BrunoMilan, IT
#4

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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ObiLagos, NG
#5

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

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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AikoOsaka, JP
#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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TiernanOmagh, NI
#7

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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PolaGdańsk, PL
#8

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

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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SunnivaBodø, NO
#9

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

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TinukeManchester, UK
#10

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

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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NedChesterfield, UK
#11

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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BertrandToulouse, FR
#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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OmarAmman, JO
#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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LandoLeeds, 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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AleksLjubljana, SI
#15

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

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#16

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

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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PerlaManila, PH
#17

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

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#18

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#19

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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