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Body neutrality made more sense to me than positivity

Started 13 July 2024 · 21 replies · 258 hearts · read 2.7k times

ZenBristol, UK · 13 July 2024
2 years ago

Body neutrality made more sense to me than positivity Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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

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NissaHaifa, IL
#1

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

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#2

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

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#3

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

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.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#5

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

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DotFalmouth, UK
#6

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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RinManchester, UK
#7

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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ClémenceNantes, FR
#8

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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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#9

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

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OsricSalisbury, UK
#10

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

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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ObieNashville, TN
#11

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

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

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TiborBratislava, SK
#12

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#13

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#14

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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OrsolyaBudapest, HU
#15

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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ZenBristol, 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.

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NissaHaifa, IL
#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.

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#18

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

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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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#19

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#20

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

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.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#21

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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