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Hearing aids, cataracts and a new injection routine

Started 4 April 2025 · 16 replies · 165 hearts · read 2.6k times

OllyReading, UK · 4 April 2025
1.3 years ago

Hearing aids, cataracts and a new injection routine — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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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BertrandToulouse, FR
#1

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#3

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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#4

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

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

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#5

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.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#6

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#7

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

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#8

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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OllyReading, UK
#9

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

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

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#10

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

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#11

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

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BrimHalifax, UK
#12

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

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#13

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

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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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#14

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#15

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#16

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

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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