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My dietitian and my prescriber disagreed, and what happened next

Started 1 May 2026 · 13 replies · 84 hearts · read 894 times

GrizelKirkcaldy, UK · 1 May 2026
3 months ago

My dietitian and my prescriber disagreed, and what happened next Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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NanNeath, UK
#1

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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OsricSalisbury, UK
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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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RenataKraków, PL
#3

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

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#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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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#5

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

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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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#6

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

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GwionBangor, UK
#7

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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QuinGuildford, UK
#8

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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RunaAarhus, DK
#9

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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

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OllieCardiff, UK
#10

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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PádraigGalway, IE
#11

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

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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BramwellNottingham, UK
#13

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

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