My son has started commenting on his own body and I am terrified

Started 25 December 2024 · 17 replies · 184 hearts · read 2.5k times

ZenBristol, UK · 25 December 2024

1.6 years ago

My son has started commenting on his own body and I am terrified — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

TasnimBradford, UK

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

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

GillyWorcester, UK

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

8me too 8

HannahSheffield, UK

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

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

OskarWarsaw, PL

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.

OrphBath, UK

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.

IslaOban, UK

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.

LuPreston, UK

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

PoppyLeeds, UK

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

14me too 2

SalmaManchester, UK

#10

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

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

NualaArmagh, NI

#11

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

BramwellNottingham, UK

#12

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.

NemoneLewes, UK

#13

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

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.

5me too 8

NanNeath, UK

#14

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.

BexPlymouth, UK

#15

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

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

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

#16

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.

CarlMiddlesbrough, UK

#17

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