I am a hairdresser and this one has hit me hard

Started 3 April 2025 · 20 replies · 184 hearts · read 3.3k times

CoralieMarseille, FR · 3 April 2025

1.3 years ago

I am a hairdresser and this one has hit me hard — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

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.

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

Thanks all. Genuinely.

DillyNewport, UK

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.

IkeChicago, IL

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.

MarthaCork, IE

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.

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.

OsmanAnkara, TR

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.

PerrinNice, FR

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

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

WinnieCarlisle, UK

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

11me too 2

WystanCheltenham, UK

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

EphraimBrooklyn, NY

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.

9me too 1

OttoPrague, CZ

#10

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

GudrunAkureyri, IS

#11

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

8me too 2

BlySheffield, UK

#12

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

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.

FabianBasel, CH

#13

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.

GroverPortland, ME

#14

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

NyalaAddis Ababa, ET

#15

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

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

#16

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.

MairéadMayo, IE

#17

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.

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#18

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

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.

8me too 3

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#19

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

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

DillyNewport, UK

#20

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