Rugby pre-season and a changed appetite

Started 19 August 2025 · 17 replies · 162 hearts · read 2.2k times

RohanPune, IN · 19 August 2025

11 months ago

A question rather than an update: Rugby pre-season and a changed appetite

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

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 written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

BertrandToulouse, FR

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

RonanBelfast, NI

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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?

ClémenceNantes, FR

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

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

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.

BaySt Ives, UK

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.

BramGhent, BE

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

RinManchester, UK

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

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

9me too 6

NadineLyon, FR

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.

EdwynNewcastle, UK

What the reply above 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.

8me too 5

OndineLausanne, CH

#10

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

PamSouthport, UK

#11

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.

MaryamBirmingham, UK

#12

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

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#13

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

10me too 2

TacitaRome, IT

#14

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.

PolaGdańsk, PL

#15

the reply above 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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#16

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

BoWhitby, UK

#17

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.