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What I say when my son asks why I am not eating my dinner

Started 10 June 2026 · 16 replies · 98 hearts · read 2k times

TasnimBradford, UK · 10 June 2026
1 month ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: What I say when my son asks why I am not eating my dinner

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

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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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BexPlymouth, UK
#1

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

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OrphBath, UK
#2

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

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#3

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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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#4

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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GillyWorcester, UK
#5

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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NanNeath, UK
#6

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

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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HannahSheffield, UK
#7

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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SindriReykjavík, IS
#8

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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ZenBristol, UK
#9

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

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PoppyLeeds, UK
#10

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

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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SalmaManchester, UK
#11

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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LuPreston, UK
#12

the reply above 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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BramwellNottingham, UK
#13

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

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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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#14

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

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#15

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

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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NemoneLewes, UK
#16

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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