Getting an endocrinology referral in the Maritimes

Started 26 October 2025 · 15 replies · 128 hearts · read 1.7k times

MargueriteQuebec City, CA · 26 October 2025

9 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Getting an endocrinology referral in the Maritimes Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

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

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

TamsinRedruth, UK

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

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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MapleToronto, CA

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

OrphBath, UK

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

AurelBucharest, RO

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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XanBerlin, DE

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

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

NadjaBelgrade, RS

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

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

IvorLlanelli, UK

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.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

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

KaiVancouver, CA

#10

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

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.

NolanHalifax, CA

#11

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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BassCoventry, UK

#12

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

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#13

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#14

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.

OrvalWinnipeg, CA

#15

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

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