My teenager asked if she should take it too

Started 24 April 2026 · 8 replies · 62 hearts · read 895 times

LuPreston, UK · 24 April 2026

3 months ago

My teenager asked if she should take it too Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Practical question, and possibly a silly 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.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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.

SalmaManchester, UK

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.

OrphBath, UK

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

NualaArmagh, NI

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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BobbieRochdale, UK

Building on what the reply above 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.

OskarWarsaw, PL

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

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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OrvalWinnipeg, CA

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.