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Is the hum coming back a sign the dose is wrong

Started 1 December 2025 · 14 replies · 119 hearts · read 1.9k times

SalmaManchester, UK · 1 December 2025
8 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Is the hum coming back a sign the dose is wrong Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

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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PoppyLeeds, UK
#1

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.

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AmmiKarachi, PK
#2

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#3

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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LuPreston, UK
#5

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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BronwenBarry, UK
#6

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

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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FreyaReykjavík, IS
#7

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

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ClemmieNorwich, UK
#8

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

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SaraOslo, NO
#9

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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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#10

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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SorayaTehran, IR
#11

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.

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IzzyWatford, UK
#12

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#13

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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MaeveSligo, IE
#14

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

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.

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