Christmas in summer and a fortnight away

Started 6 April 2026 · 19 replies · 121 hearts · read 1.7k times

TillyHereford, UK · 6 April 2026

3 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Christmas in summer and a fortnight away

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

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.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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

OzrenZagreb, HR

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

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

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

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.

CallaWellington, NZ

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

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

6me too 2

TavitaApia, WS

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.

8me too 7

OzzyAdelaide, AU

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

OttiHarrogate, UK

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.

AriaAuckland, NZ

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.

GusStirling, UK

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

BramwellRipon, UK

#10

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.

2me too 3

BodhiByron Bay, AU

#11

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?

BevanSwansea, UK

#12

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

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.

OttaviaBologna, IT

#13

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.

HollisBath, UK

#14

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.

4me too 2

CatoAntwerp, BE

#15

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.

BronwenBarry, UK

#16

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.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

#17

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.

6me too 7

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#18

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

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DotFalmouth, UK

#19

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