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Support I found when I realised it was a bigger question

Started 22 March 2025 · 16 replies · 175 hearts · read 2.9k times

OttoPrague, CZ · 22 March 2025
1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Support I found when I realised it was a bigger question Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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.

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

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

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MorayElgin, UK
#1

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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BethanPontypridd, UK
#2

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#4

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

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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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#5

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

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#6

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

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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EspeSeville, ES
#7

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

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#8

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

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#9

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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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#10

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

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

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#11

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

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AmbroseYork, UK
#12

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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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LinneaTurku, FI
#13

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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NedChesterfield, UK
#14

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#15

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
#16

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

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