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What I asked my GP after reading two contradictory articles

Started 19 May 2025 · 16 replies · 167 hearts · read 2.3k times

CoralieMarseille, FR · 19 May 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: What I asked my GP after reading two contradictory articles

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

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.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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MarnieAyr, UK
#1

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.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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FenellaCirencester, UK
#3

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

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.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#5

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

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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HollyBath, UK
#6

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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HannahSheffield, UK
#7

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.

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HalCambridge, UK
#8

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

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

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#9

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

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

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#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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WellsChester, UK
#11

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

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

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#12

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#13

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

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#14

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.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#15

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

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MarnieAyr, UK
#16

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

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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