What the practice nurse showed me that changed it

Started 6 January 2025 · 23 replies · 248 hearts · read 3.8k times

TedIpswich, UK · 6 January 2025

1.5 years ago

What the practice nurse showed me that changed it — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

IslaOban, UK

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

SaraOslo, NO

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

SableCape Town, ZA

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

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.

ZoëHackney, UK

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.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

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

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

BrackAlnwick, UK

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?

CatoAntwerp, BE

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

9me too 9

OrlaithDonegal, IE

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

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

IvesPenzance, UK

#10

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.

BrodyDunfermline, UK

#11

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

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.

PerrineStrasbourg, FR

#12

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

OmarAmman, JO

#13

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

NadirCasablanca, MA

#14

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.

OttaviaBologna, IT

#15

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.

GavinDundee, UK

#16

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

7me too 9

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

#17

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.

NylaNairobi, KE

#18

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

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.

DelythBala, UK

#19

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.

TabbyMargate, UK

#20

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

TedIpswich, UK

#21

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

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#22

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.

SaraOslo, NO

#23

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

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