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My partner keeps asking if I am eating enough and I do not know

Started 28 March 2024 · 17 replies · 213 hearts · read 1.7k times

NikoTbilisi, GE · 28 March 2024
2.3 years ago

My partner keeps asking if I am eating enough and I do not know — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

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.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#1

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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StefanZurich, CH
#2

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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NellaUtrecht, NL
#3

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

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#4

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

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#5

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.

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SindriReykjavík, IS
#6

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

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.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#7

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

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

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#8

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

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#9

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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NualaArmagh, NI
#10

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

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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OllieCardiff, UK
#11

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

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.

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#12

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

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KateBelfast, NI
#13

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

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BramleyBath, UK
#14

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.

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#15

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

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#16

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StefanZurich, CH
#17

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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