Nobody has asked how I am in two years

Started 18 December 2025 · 18 replies · 142 hearts · read 1.8k times

PamSouthport, UK · 18 December 2025

7 months ago

Nobody has asked how I am in two years — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

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

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

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.

SerenLlandudno, UK

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?

6me too 4

BrennaEnniskillen, NI

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

ZoraSarajevo, BA

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

LandoLeeds, UK

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

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.

FitzLimerick, IE

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

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.

IdrisCardiff, UK

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.

NkosiJohannesburg, ZA

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

KeeleyBlackpool, UK

#10

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.

4me too 6

PipBristol, UK

#11

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

5me too 2

LinnetKendal, UK

#12

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.

GigiNaples, IT

#13

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

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

BramberSteyning, UK

#14

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.

ÖzlemIzmir, TR

#15

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

GwythFishguard, UK

#16

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

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

10me too 7

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

#17

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

#18

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