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My lipids went the wrong way and it took a while to understand why

Started 31 August 2024 · 24 replies · 272 hearts · read 5.1k times

TinukeManchester, UK · 31 August 2024
1.9 years ago

My lipids went the wrong way and it took a while to understand why Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Putting this here because I do not want to be sold anything, I want to know what is actually established.

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.

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.

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.

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

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HarlanDenver, CO
#1

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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BlySheffield, UK
#2

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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NerysRhyl, UK
#3

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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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#4

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

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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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#5

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.

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RaviLeicester, UK
#6

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

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.

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TedIpswich, UK
#7

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.

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RomyVienna, AT
#8

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#9

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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HeddaCopenhagen, DK
#10

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

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BelCroydon, UK
#11

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

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NolanHalifax, CA
#12

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
#13

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

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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EspeSeville, ES
#14

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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KaiVancouver, CA
#15

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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RonanBelfast, NI
#16

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

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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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#17

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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BastianFreiburg, DE
#18

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

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GwendaEbbw Vale, UK
#19

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

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IzoldaVilnius, LT
#20

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

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

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BrunoMilan, IT
#21

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

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

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AriaAuckland, NZ
#22

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#23

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PerlaManila, PH
#24

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

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