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What my endocrinologist wanted checked first

Started 22 May 2026 · 13 replies · 80 hearts · read 845 times

GrizelKirkcaldy, UK · 22 May 2026
2 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: What my endocrinologist wanted checked first Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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TansyLudlow, UK
#1

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

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

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PrueChester, UK
#3

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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MinnieDoncaster, UK
#4

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

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Bryn MNeath, UK
#5

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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BryonyMalvern, UK
#6

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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GaelanInverurie, UK
#7

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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MaudGhent, BE
#8

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

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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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#9

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

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#10

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

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PerlaManila, PH
#11

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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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#12

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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PersisBristol, UK
#13

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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