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What my nurse said about reversing it — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.
Some background first, because it matters for the question.
I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.
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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Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.
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My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.
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What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.
What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.
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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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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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the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.
Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.
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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.
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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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What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.
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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My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.
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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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Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.
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the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.
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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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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the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.
It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.
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