Week ten and my clothes fit differently, which I find complicated

Started 15 December 2024 · 17 replies · 161 hearts · read 1.4k times

KateBelfast, NI · 15 December 2024

1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Week ten and my clothes fit differently, which I find complicated 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.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

TavishIsle of Skye, UK

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

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.

StefanZurich, CH

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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BlueStroud, UK

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.

BramleyBath, UK

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

SindriReykjavík, IS

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

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

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

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.

OllieCardiff, 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.

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NualaArmagh, NI

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

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

#10

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.

OndineLausanne, CH

#11

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.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#12

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

10me too 3

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#13

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.

NellaUtrecht, NL

#14

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.

KateBelfast, NI

#15

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

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#16

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

Obi OEnugu, NG

#17

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