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Six months of shedding then it stopped

Started 31 January 2025 · 13 replies · 136 hearts · read 1.8k times

MargueriteQuebec City, CA · 31 January 2025
1.5 years ago

Six months of shedding then it stopped — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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GroverPortland, ME
#1

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

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

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.

13me too 4

NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#3

Reading the opening post, 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.

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WinnieCarlisle, UK
#4

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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FabianBasel, CH
#5

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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CoralieMarseille, FR
#6

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

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MairéadMayo, IE
#7

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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EphraimBrooklyn, NY
#8

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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WystanCheltenham, UK
#9

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

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#10

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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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#11

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#12

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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BlySheffield, UK
#13

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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