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Three months at a time versus monthly

Started 29 April 2025 · 15 replies · 161 hearts · read 2k times

ZoëHackney, UK · 29 April 2025
about a year ago

Three months at a time versus monthly — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

This is the boring administrative kind of problem, which I gather is the kind that actually gets solved.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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HettieLancaster, UK
#1

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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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#2

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

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

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GavinDundee, UK
#3

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

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

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#4

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KateBelfast, NI
#5

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

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#6

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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NadirCasablanca, MA
#7

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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OttoPrague, CZ
#8

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

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

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MoBradford, UK
#9

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

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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GwennoPwllheli, UK
#10

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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SaffHastings, UK
#11

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

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

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ZoëHackney, UK
#12

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

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HettieLancaster, UK
#13

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.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#14

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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GavinDundee, UK
#15

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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