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Travel makes it much worse for me

Started 9 November 2024 · 23 replies · 251 hearts · read 4.9k times

IvorLlanelli, UK · 9 November 2024
1.7 years ago

Travel makes it much worse for me Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#1

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

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

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

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#3

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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PerryCardigan, UK
#4

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

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OdessaLviv, UA
#5

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

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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XanBerlin, DE
#6

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

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VeraRiga, LV
#7

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

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TeganNewport, UK
#8

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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TamzinPoole, UK
#9

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

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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PoppyLeeds, UK
#10

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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IvorLlanelli, UK
#11

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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GwythFishguard, UK
#12

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

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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HarlanDenver, CO
#13

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#14

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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PerryCardigan, UK
#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.

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OdessaLviv, UA
#16

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

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XanBerlin, DE
#17

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

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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VeraRiga, LV
#18

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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TeganNewport, 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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TamzinPoole, UK
#20

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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PoppyLeeds, UK
#21

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#22

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

If any of this has landed close to home for you while reading, our support resources page lists the kinds of services worth finding. No obligation and no drama.

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GwythFishguard, UK
#23

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

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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