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A relationship that ended and this was part of it

Started 24 April 2026 · 16 replies · 101 hearts · read 1.9k times

CormacWaterford, IE · 24 April 2026
3 months ago

A relationship that ended and this was part of it — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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.

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

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TeganNewport, UK
#1

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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BessLouth, UK
#2

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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ObiLagos, NG
#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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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#4

What the reply above 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.

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OssieWolverhampton, UK
#5

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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NolwennRennes, FR
#6

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

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MapleToronto, CA
#7

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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

8me too 6

NikitaYerevan, AM
#8

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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OmarAmman, JO
#9

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#10

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

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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OzrenZagreb, HR
#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.

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CormacWaterford, IE
#12

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

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TeganNewport, UK
#13

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

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BessLouth, UK
#14

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

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.

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#15

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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RufusGuildford, UK
#16

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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.

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