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What my provincial plan covers and what it does not

Started 30 October 2024 · 19 replies · 235 hearts · read 4.7k times

MapleToronto, CA · 30 October 2024
1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: What my provincial plan covers and what it does not Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

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

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

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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NolanHalifax, CA
#1

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#2

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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OrrinGlasgow, UK
#3

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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XanBerlin, DE
#4

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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TamsinRedruth, UK
#5

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.

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BassCoventry, UK
#6

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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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#7

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

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AurelBucharest, RO
#8

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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OrphBath, UK
#9

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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KaiVancouver, CA
#10

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

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NadjaBelgrade, RS
#11

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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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#12

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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MapleToronto, CA
#13

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

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NolanHalifax, CA
#14

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

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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IvorLlanelli, UK
#15

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

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OrrinGlasgow, UK
#16

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

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

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XanBerlin, DE
#17

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

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

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#18

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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BassCoventry, UK
#19

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

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