When did your energy come back

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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