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Sicilian family, small appetite, a lot of love

Started 18 May 2026 · 15 replies · 84 hearts · read 1.9k times

KateBelfast, NI · 18 May 2026
2 months ago

Sicilian family, small appetite, a lot of love Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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.

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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TavitaApia, WS
#1

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

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NkosiJohannesburg, ZA
#2

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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OttiHarrogate, UK
#3

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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#4

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#5

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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PerryCardigan, UK
#6

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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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#7

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

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#8

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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AmbroseYork, UK
#9

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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DelphiThessaloniki, GR
#10

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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NolCork, IE
#11

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

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GildaTrieste, IT
#12

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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WystanCheltenham, UK
#13

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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#14

What the reply above 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.

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TavitaApia, WS
#15

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.

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