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Whisky country and no interest in whisky

Started 4 November 2025 · 12 replies · 101 hearts · read 1.9k times

AmbroseYork, UK · 4 November 2025
8 months ago

A question rather than an update: Whisky country and no interest in whisky

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#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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TamGlasgow, UK
#2

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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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#3

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#5

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

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#6

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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SephNorwich, UK
#7

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

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#8

What the reply above 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.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#9

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

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BethanPontypridd, UK
#10

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

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#11

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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BoWhitby, UK
#12

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

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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