My pharmacist caught it and I have thought about it ever since

Started 11 April 2025 · 18 replies · 205 hearts · read 2k times

BoazHaarlem, NL · 11 April 2025

1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: My pharmacist caught it and I have thought about it ever since Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Money post. No apologies, this circle is for it.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

DevManchester, UK

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.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

AurelBucharest, RO

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

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

7me too 9

SunnivaBodø, NO

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

MaeveSligo, IE

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.

XanBerlin, DE

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

NúriaBarcelona, ES

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

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

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

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.

OrlaithDonegal, IE

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

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

BoazHaarlem, NL

#10

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

DevManchester, UK

#11

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

RuaridhFort William, UK

#12

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?

AurelBucharest, RO

#13

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.

9me too 3

SunnivaBodø, NO

#14

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

MaeveSligo, IE

#15

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.

XanBerlin, DE

#16

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

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.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#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.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

#18

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

9me too 8