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Beans and the gut consequences

Started 25 September 2024 · 20 replies · 255 hearts · read 4.9k times

MableBolton, UK · 25 September 2024
1.8 years ago

Beans and the gut consequences Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

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

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TanviMumbai, IN
#1

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.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#2

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

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.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#3

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

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#4

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

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MorayElgin, UK
#5

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#6

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

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NemoneLewes, UK
#7

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

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CloverTotnes, UK
#8

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

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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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#9

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

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

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#10

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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MableBolton, UK
#11

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

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TanviMumbai, IN
#12

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.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#13

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

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IvesPenzance, UK
#14

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#15

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.

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MorayElgin, UK
#16

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

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#17

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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NemoneLewes, UK
#18

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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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#20

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

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