Week seven and something has genuinely shifted

Started 17 March 2025 · 21 replies · 188 hearts · read 3.2k times

OndineLausanne, CH · 17 March 2025

1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Week seven and something has genuinely shifted Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

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.

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

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.

TavishIsle of Skye, UK

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.

8me too 2

Obi OEnugu, NG

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

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

OllieCardiff, UK

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

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.

NikoTbilisi, GE

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

NellaUtrecht, NL

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

9me too 9

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

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

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.

SindriReykjavík, IS

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

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

BlueStroud, UK

#10

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.

BramleyBath, UK

#11

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

8me too 6

KateBelfast, NI

#12

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

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

NualaArmagh, NI

#13

Reading the reply above, 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.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

#14

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?

OndineLausanne, CH

#15

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#16

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.

5me too 2

TavishIsle of Skye, UK

#17

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

Obi OEnugu, NG

#18

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.

StefanZurich, CH

#19

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

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#20

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#21

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