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Eating enough protein while feeling sick

Started 10 May 2025 · 20 replies · 195 hearts · read 4k times

GwynethAberdare, UK · 10 May 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Eating enough protein while feeling sick

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

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.

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.

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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RenataKraków, PL
#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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IlseMaastricht, NL
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#4

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

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WilfStoke, UK
#5

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

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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PerlaManila, PH
#6

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#7

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

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#8

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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CasperOdense, DK
#9

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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BryonyMalvern, UK
#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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VivLuton, UK
#11

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

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TemSouthend, UK
#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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BramleyBath, UK
#13

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#14

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

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#15

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

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

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#16

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

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DaraAthlone, IE
#17

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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MimiHong Kong
#18

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

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#19

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

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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RenataKraków, PL
#20

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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