Foot check that finally came back unremarkable

Started 2 September 2024 · 23 replies · 261 hearts · read 3k times

RuthieLeicester, UK · 2 September 2024

1.9 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Foot check that finally came back unremarkable Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

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.

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.

GwenBangor, UK

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

VivLuton, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

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

TarnKeswick, UK

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

9me too 7

AbelAddis Ababa, ET

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

AleksLjubljana, SI

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

StellanMalmö, SE

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

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

InêsPorto, PT

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.

CatoAntwerp, BE

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

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

13me too 7

IvesPenzance, UK

#10

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

PrunellaBury St Edmunds, UK

#11

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

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.

GigiNaples, IT

#12

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

DoraUtrecht, NL

#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.

RillaAberdeen, 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.

5me too 9

TiborBratislava, SK

#15

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

9me too 5

ZebAustin, TX

#16

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

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?

GwendaEbbw Vale, UK

#17

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

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

CassWakefield, UK

#18

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.

YannickBrussels, BE

#19

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.

RomyVienna, AT

#20

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.

BaySt Ives, UK

#21

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

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

9me too 1

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#22

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.

RaviLeicester, UK

#23

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.