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A first date and a plate I barely touched

Started 11 June 2026 · 9 replies · 49 hearts · read 803 times

NolCork, IE · 11 June 2026
1 month ago

Something I have been sitting with: A first date and a plate I barely touched Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

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.

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AmbroseYork, UK
#1

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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Bell ANorwich, UK
#2

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

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.

3me too 9

NkosiJohannesburg, ZA
#3

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

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

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OttiHarrogate, UK
#5

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.

5me too 5

WystanCheltenham, UK
#6

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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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#7

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

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#8

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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DelphiThessaloniki, GR
#9

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

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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