A delayed flight and a bag that was not with me

Started 16 October 2024 · 18 replies · 194 hearts · read 2.6k times

OzrenZagreb, HR · 16 October 2024

1.8 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: A delayed flight and a bag that was not with me

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

BlueStroud, UK

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.

NissaHaifa, IL

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

TullaTralee, IE

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

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

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

VeraRiga, LV

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.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

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

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

TamarPlymouth, UK

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

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.

BrackenHexham, UK

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.

12me too 6

AriaAuckland, NZ

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

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

OzzyAdelaide, AU

#10

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

NoleneDurban, ZA

#11

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

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.

NevGrimsby, UK

#12

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.

MinnieDoncaster, UK

#13

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

TillyHereford, UK

#14

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

PrunellaBury St Edmunds, UK

#15

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

10me too 7

NúriaBarcelona, ES

#16

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

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.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#17

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, 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.

SalmaManchester, UK

#18

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