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What my prescriber wrote on the new script

Started 20 August 2025 · 13 replies · 126 hearts · read 2k times

MaeveSligo, IE · 20 August 2025
11 months ago

What my prescriber wrote on the new script — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have a letter in front of me and I do not know what it actually says.

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

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.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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DevManchester, UK
#1

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

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SunnivaBodø, NO
#2

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

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#3

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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#4

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#5

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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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#6

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

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

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BoazHaarlem, NL
#7

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

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
#8

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#9

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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MaeveSligo, IE
#10

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

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

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DevManchester, UK
#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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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#12

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

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#13

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.

12me too 5