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Masking in a clinic appointment and getting nothing useful

Started 20 April 2026 · 11 replies · 85 hearts · read 1.2k times

TarqWindsor, UK · 20 April 2026
3 months ago

Masking in a clinic appointment and getting nothing useful — 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.

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.

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

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NixLeith, UK
#1

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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WilfStoke, UK
#2

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

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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ObieNashville, TN
#3

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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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#4

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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Bryn MNeath, UK
#5

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

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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TobiasHamburg, DE
#6

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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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#7

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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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#8

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

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#9

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#10

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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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#11

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

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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