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What a twenty-year horizon might mean, and what nobody knows

Started 17 May 2025 · 18 replies · 179 hearts · read 1.6k times

TobinCork, IE · 17 May 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: What a twenty-year horizon might mean, and what nobody knows

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

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.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#1

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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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#2

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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TallisEly, UK
#3

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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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#4

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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TildaCambridge, UK
#5

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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#6

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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NazneenDhaka, BD
#7

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

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LinneaTurku, FI
#8

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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GwenBangor, UK
#9

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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GabePhoenix, AZ
#10

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

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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GwionBangor, UK
#11

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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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#12

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

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TorinBelfast, NI
#13

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

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.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#14

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

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TobinCork, IE
#15

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

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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#16

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

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#17

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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TallisEly, UK
#18

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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