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Nobody in either clinic wanted to own the question

Started 25 June 2024 · 15 replies · 200 hearts · read 1.7k times

WellsChester, UK · 25 June 2024
2.1 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Nobody in either clinic wanted to own the question Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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HalCambridge, UK
#1

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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HannahSheffield, UK
#2

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

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#3

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

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

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#5

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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BettinaGraz, AT
#6

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

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

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HollyBath, UK
#7

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

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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CoralieMarseille, FR
#8

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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BirdieMargate, UK
#9

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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MarnieAyr, UK
#10

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

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#11

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#12

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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FenellaCirencester, 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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#14

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.

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WellsChester, UK
#15

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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