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Binge eating disorder and what actually changed

Started 9 June 2026 · 14 replies · 90 hearts · read 1.4k times

SableCape Town, ZA · 9 June 2026
1 month ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Binge eating disorder and what actually changed

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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.

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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OsricSalisbury, UK
#1

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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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#2

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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

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GwionBangor, UK
#3

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

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

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SadieSalford, UK
#5

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

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RunaAarhus, DK
#6

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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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#7

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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RenataKraków, PL
#8

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

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

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#9

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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QuinGuildford, UK
#10

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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PádraigGalway, IE
#11

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.

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OllieCardiff, UK
#12

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#13

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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SableCape Town, ZA
#14

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

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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