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The pub is still the pub without the pints

Started 11 January 2025 · 19 replies · 209 hearts · read 3.8k times

NedChesterfield, UK · 11 January 2025
1.5 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: The pub is still the pub without the pints 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 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.

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

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MorayElgin, UK
#1

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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TeganNewport, UK
#2

What the opening post 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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BoWhitby, UK
#3

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, 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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LinneaTurku, FI
#5

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

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AmbroseYork, UK
#6

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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SephNorwich, UK
#7

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

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

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OttoPrague, CZ
#8

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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DotFalmouth, UK
#9

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

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

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#10

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

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#11

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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NkechiAbuja, NG
#12

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#13

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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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#14

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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EspeSeville, ES
#15

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

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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TamGlasgow, UK
#16

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
#17

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#18

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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NedChesterfield, UK
#19

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

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