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Maintenance is boring and I mean that as praise Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.
I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.
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.
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Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.
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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.
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My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.
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Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.
What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.
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the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.
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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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.
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I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.
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Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.
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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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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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My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.
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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?
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What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.
I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.
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No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.
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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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the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.
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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