How to survive a work trip in week five

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.