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Dry January that turned into a dry year, accidentally

Started 14 May 2026 · 14 replies · 80 hearts · read 1.7k times

BrynAberystwyth, UK · 14 May 2026
2 months ago

Dry January that turned into a dry year, accidentally — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

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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SephNorwich, UK
#1

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

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BethanPontypridd, UK
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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BoWhitby, UK
#4

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

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TamGlasgow, UK
#5

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

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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LinneaTurku, FI
#6

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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MorayElgin, UK
#7

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

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#8

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

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NedChesterfield, UK
#9

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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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#10

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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AmbroseYork, UK
#11

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

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#12

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#13

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.

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TeganNewport, UK
#14

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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