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Working in Belgium, registered in France

Started 7 August 2025 · 19 replies · 172 hearts · read 2.7k times

AurelBucharest, RO · 7 August 2025
11 months ago

Working in Belgium, registered in France Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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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TaviaPalermo, IT
#1

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

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FreyaReykjavík, IS
#2

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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DelphiThessaloniki, GR
#3

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

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#4

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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TheaBergen, NO
#5

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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SaraOslo, NO
#6

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

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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GilTel Aviv, IL
#7

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

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IdaRotterdam, NL
#8

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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MarenBremen, DE
#9

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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FabianBasel, CH
#10

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

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#11

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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BettinaGraz, AT
#12

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

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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InêsPorto, PT
#13

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

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

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EspeSeville, ES
#14

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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RafeBordeaux, FR
#15

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

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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SaskiaThe Hague, NL
#16

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

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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#17

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
#18

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#19

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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