Regrowth at month nine — a photo-free description

Started 24 June 2026 · 10 replies · 64 hearts · read 1k times

AnnikaStockholm, SE · 24 June 2026

4 weeks ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Regrowth at month nine — a photo-free description

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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 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.

OsmanAnkara, TR

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.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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.

DillyNewport, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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

GroverPortland, ME

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

PerrinNice, FR

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

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

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

MairéadMayo, IE

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

IkeChicago, IL

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

7me too 7

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

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

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FabianBasel, CH

#10

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

4me too 8