Prairie distances and a three-week supply

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.