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Swimming again after eleven years

Started 30 December 2024 · 16 replies · 178 hearts · read 2.7k times

PietPretoria, ZA · 30 December 2024
1.6 years ago

A question rather than an update: Swimming again after eleven years

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#1

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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NikoTbilisi, GE
#2

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#3

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, 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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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#5

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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BrimHalifax, 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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OttilieCheshire, UK
#7

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

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OllyReading, UK
#8

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#9

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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OsmanAnkara, TR
#10

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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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NikoTbilisi, GE
#11

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#12

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

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#13

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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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#14

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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OttilieCheshire, UK
#16

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

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

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