What I do differently now about praising food

Started 6 April 2024 · 24 replies · 306 hearts · read 5.2k times

NemoneLewes, UK · 6 April 2024

2.3 years ago

What I do differently now about praising food Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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BramwellNottingham, UK

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.

CarlMiddlesbrough, UK

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

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

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

OrvalWinnipeg, CA

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.

SalmaManchester, UK

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

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.

GillyWorcester, UK

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.

OskarWarsaw, PL

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

NualaArmagh, NI

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

HannahSheffield, UK

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

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?

BobbieRochdale, UK

#10

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

IslaOban, UK

#11

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.

OrphBath, UK

#12

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

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

ZenBristol, UK

#13

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

PipBristol, UK

#14

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.

NanNeath, UK

#15

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.

LuPreston, UK

#16

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.

TasnimBradford, UK

#17

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

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

PoppyLeeds, UK

#18

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

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MarkCoventry, UK

#19

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

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

BexPlymouth, UK

#20

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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NemoneLewes, UK

#21

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

BramwellNottingham, UK

#22

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.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

#23

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

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SindriReykjavík, IS

#24

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

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.