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I stopped because I did not like who I was becoming about food

Started 30 September 2024 · 21 replies · 257 hearts · read 3.4k times

DelythBala, UK · 30 September 2024
1.8 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: I stopped because I did not like who I was becoming about food

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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.

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

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

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#1

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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BastianFreiburg, DE
#2

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

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#3

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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IdaRotterdam, NL
#4

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

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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BryonyMalvern, UK
#5

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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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#6

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.

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TedIpswich, UK
#7

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

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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TillyHereford, UK
#8

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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TanviMumbai, IN
#9

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

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

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SinéadCork, IE
#10

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

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FabianBasel, CH
#11

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

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#12

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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BronLincoln, UK
#13

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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BramwellRipon, UK
#14

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

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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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#15

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

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

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TressaSt Austell, UK
#16

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

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FenEly, UK
#17

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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DelythBala, UK
#18

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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NikoTbilisi, GE
#19

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

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

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DashSeattle, WA
#21

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

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