Doing it at work in a locked room

Started 5 February 2025 · 16 replies · 154 hearts · read 1.7k times

CatoAntwerp, BE · 5 February 2025

1.5 years ago

A question rather than an update: Doing it at work in a locked room

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

IslaOban, UK

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

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.

SaraOslo, NO

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

BrodyDunfermline, UK

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

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.

9me too 4

OttaviaBologna, IT

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

ZoëHackney, UK

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

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.

TedIpswich, UK

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

DelythBala, UK

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

BrackAlnwick, UK

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

4me too 4

OmarAmman, JO

#10

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.

PerrineStrasbourg, FR

#11

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.

NadirCasablanca, MA

#12

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

6me too 6

NylaNairobi, KE

#13

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.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

#14

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

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.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#15

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

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

TabbyMargate, UK

#16

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