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Forty-one degrees and a cool bag

Started 18 April 2026 · 12 replies · 85 hearts · read 1.6k times

BodhiByron Bay, AU · 18 April 2026
3 months ago

A question rather than an update: Forty-one degrees and a cool bag

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

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.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

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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OrrinGlasgow, UK
#1

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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GusStirling, UK
#2

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

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

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AriaAuckland, NZ
#3

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

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#4

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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CatoAntwerp, BE
#5

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

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

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HollisBath, UK
#6

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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OttiHarrogate, UK
#7

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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BramwellRipon, UK
#8

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

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OzzyAdelaide, AU
#9

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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TavitaApia, WS
#10

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#11

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

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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OttaviaBologna, IT
#12

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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