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Being the sober one at a Christmas party

Started 27 September 2024 · 22 replies · 238 hearts · read 3.5k times

DotFalmouth, UK · 27 September 2024
1.8 years ago

A question rather than an update: Being the sober one at a Christmas party

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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.

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.

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

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#1

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

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BethanPontypridd, UK
#2

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

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

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TamGlasgow, UK
#3

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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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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#5

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

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AmbroseYork, UK
#6

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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MorayElgin, UK
#7

the reply above 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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RafeBordeaux, FR
#8

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

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#9

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

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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EspeSeville, ES
#10

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

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#11

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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LinneaTurku, FI
#12

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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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#13

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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OttoPrague, CZ
#14

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

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BoWhitby, UK
#15

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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TeganNewport, UK
#16

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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NedChesterfield, UK
#17

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

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#18

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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DotFalmouth, UK
#19

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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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#20

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
#21

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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TamGlasgow, UK
#22

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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