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Work lunches and a boss who notices everything

Started 28 January 2026 · 11 replies · 79 hearts · read 1.1k times

AmbroseYork, UK · 28 January 2026
6 months ago

Work lunches and a boss who notices everything — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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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WystanCheltenham, UK
#1

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

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#3

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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WinkleWeymouth, UK
#4

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

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

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NolCork, 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

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

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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GildaTrieste, IT
#7

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

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

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KateBelfast, NI
#8

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

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#10

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

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#11

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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