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My antidepressant and a much smaller stomach

Started 10 August 2025 · 20 replies · 185 hearts · read 1.6k times

AikoOsaka, JP · 10 August 2025
11 months ago

My antidepressant and a much smaller stomach Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

This is a difficult one to write and I have deleted it twice.

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.

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.

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

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

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JunoBrighton, UK
#1

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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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#2

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#3

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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NazneenDhaka, BD
#4

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

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#5

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#6

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#7

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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BramwellNottingham, UK
#8

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

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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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#9

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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IzzyWatford, UK
#10

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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BessLouth, UK
#11

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

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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BelCroydon, UK
#12

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

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CormacWaterford, IE
#13

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

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MairéadMayo, IE
#14

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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PippaTruro, UK
#15

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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HeddaCopenhagen, DK
#16

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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KaiVancouver, CA
#17

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

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

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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#18

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#19

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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TallisEly, UK
#20

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

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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