Korean dermatology clinics and a surprising conversation

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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

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.

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

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

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

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.