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Clothes shopping was worse, not better

Started 27 July 2024 · 23 replies · 285 hearts · read 4.9k times

MimiHong Kong · 27 July 2024
2 years ago

Clothes shopping was worse, not better Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

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.

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

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#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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GwythFishguard, UK
#2

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

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#3

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#4

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

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#5

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

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.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#6

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

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ZenBristol, UK
#7

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

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#8

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

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

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TiborBratislava, SK
#9

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

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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NissaHaifa, IL
#10

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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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#11

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

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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RinManchester, UK
#12

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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ClémenceNantes, FR
#13

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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OsricSalisbury, UK
#14

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

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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ObieNashville, TN
#15

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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MimiHong Kong
#16

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

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

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#17

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#18

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?

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OrsolyaBudapest, HU
#19

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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LulaBournemouth, UK
#20

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

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#21

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#22

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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ZenBristol, UK
#23

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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