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When the noise goes quiet

The quiet came back loud and I was not ready

Started 18 October 2024 · 20 replies · 220 hearts · read 4.6k times

BronteHaworth, UK · 18 October 2024
1.8 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: The quiet came back loud and I was not ready Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

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.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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NualaArmagh, NI
#1

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

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.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#3

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

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BodhiByron Bay, AU
#4

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

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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CallaWellington, NZ
#5

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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SinéadCork, IE
#6

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.

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TansyLudlow, UK
#7

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

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

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PosyChichester, UK
#8

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

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LuPreston, UK
#9

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

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

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MaeveSligo, IE
#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.

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TheaBergen, NO
#11

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

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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SaraOslo, NO
#12

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.

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OllyReading, UK
#13

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

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LenaMunich, DE
#14

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

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

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SorayaTehran, IR
#15

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

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#16

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

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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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#17

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

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HannahSheffield, UK
#18

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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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#19

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.

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MapleToronto, CA
#20

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

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

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