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The first twelve weeks

The first twelve weeks are nearly over and I have no idea what happens next

Started 12 May 2026 · 13 replies · 79 hearts · read 1.5k times

OllieCardiff, UK · 12 May 2026
2 months ago

The first twelve weeks are nearly over and I have no idea what happens next — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Long one, sorry. I have been chewing on this for a fortnight.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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.

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.

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

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#1

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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BlueStroud, UK
#2

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#3

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#4

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

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SindriReykjavík, IS
#5

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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StefanZurich, CH
#6

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

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BramleyBath, UK
#7

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

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

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KateBelfast, NI
#8

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

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#9

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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Obi OEnugu, NG
#10

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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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#11

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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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#12

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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NualaArmagh, NI
#13

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

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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