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Nausea and eating

I was down to two small meals and my nurse was concerned

Started 14 November 2025 · 14 replies · 126 hearts · read 1.2k times

BrynAberystwyth, UK · 14 November 2025
8 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: I was down to two small meals and my nurse was concerned

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

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.

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

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DaraAthlone, IE
#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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#3

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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BryonyMalvern, UK
#4

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

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.

10me too 4

WilfStoke, UK
#5

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

8me too 9

CasperOdense, DK
#6

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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IlseMaastricht, NL
#7

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

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RayBarnsley, UK
#8

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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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#9

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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MimiHong Kong
#10

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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TemSouthend, UK
#11

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

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#12

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#13

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

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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BramleyBath, UK
#14

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.

7me too 1