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Bipolar and a routine built entirely around meals

Started 16 March 2025 · 17 replies · 175 hearts · read 3.7k times

TamzinPoole, UK · 16 March 2025
1.3 years ago

Bipolar and a routine built entirely around meals — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#1

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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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#2

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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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#3

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

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

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PippaTruro, UK
#5

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

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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LeniLeipzig, DE
#6

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

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CormacWaterford, IE
#7

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

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HeddaCopenhagen, DK
#8

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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FitzLimerick, IE
#9

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

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

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JunoBrighton, UK
#10

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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BronteHaworth, UK
#11

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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TallisEly, UK
#12

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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BramwellNottingham, UK
#13

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

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

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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#14

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#15

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#16

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

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#17

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

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