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The plateau ended and I do not know why

Started 16 May 2024 · 14 replies · 178 hearts · read 1.5k times

GwynforLlanidloes, UK · 16 May 2024
2.2 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: The plateau ended and I do not know why Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

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

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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NikitaYerevan, AM
#1

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

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PerduMontpellier, FR
#2

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

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TamarPlymouth, UK
#3

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

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

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OssieWolverhampton, UK
#5

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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TamzinPoole, UK
#6

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

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

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PerlaManila, PH
#7

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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OttiHarrogate, UK
#8

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#9

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

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#10

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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OsgarKillarney, IE
#11

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

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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BramwellRipon, UK
#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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#13

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#14

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

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