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What changed for me when I got my sleep back

Started 19 November 2024 · 17 replies · 186 hearts · read 3.5k times

TaaviTallinn, EE · 19 November 2024
1.7 years ago

What changed for me when I got my sleep back — 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.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

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.

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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OssianTromsø, NO
#1

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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BelCroydon, UK
#3

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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JunoBrighton, UK
#4

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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CormacWaterford, IE
#5

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

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

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#6

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

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HeddaCopenhagen, DK
#7

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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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#8

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
#9

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

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

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#10

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

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MairéadMayo, IE
#11

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

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PippaTruro, UK
#12

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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MintaColchester, UK
#13

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

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BronteHaworth, UK
#14

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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FitzLimerick, IE
#15

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

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#16

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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BessLouth, UK
#17

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

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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