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The five meals I rotate now

Started 19 January 2025 · 15 replies · 170 hearts · read 2.4k times

PietPretoria, ZA · 19 January 2025
1.5 years ago

A question rather than an update: The five meals I rotate now

Practical question, and possibly a silly 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.

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.

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

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TanviMumbai, IN
#1

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#2

Reading the opening post, 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.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#3

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#4

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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MableBolton, UK
#5

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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NemoneLewes, UK
#6

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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MorayElgin, UK
#7

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

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

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CloverTotnes, UK
#8

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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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#9

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

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IvesPenzance, UK
#10

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#11

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

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TanviMumbai, IN
#12

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#13

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#14

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

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#15

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

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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