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The line between not hungry and not eating

Started 21 July 2025 · 12 replies · 119 hearts · read 941 times

OrlaithDonegal, IE · 21 July 2025
12 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: The line between not hungry and not eating Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

This is a difficult one to write and I have deleted it twice.

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.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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SableCape Town, ZA
#1

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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GrizelKirkcaldy, UK
#2

Reading the opening post, 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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#3

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

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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GwionBangor, UK
#4

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

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RunaAarhus, DK
#5

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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PádraigGalway, IE
#6

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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OllieCardiff, UK
#7

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

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RenataKraków, PL
#8

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

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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QuinGuildford, UK
#9

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

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NanNeath, UK
#10

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

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OsricSalisbury, UK
#12

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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