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Being told to lose weight and nothing else, for eleven years

Started 29 April 2025 · 16 replies · 160 hearts · read 2.6k times

VivLuton, UK · 29 April 2025
about a year ago

A question rather than an update: Being told to lose weight and nothing else, for eleven years

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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JontyOxford, UK
#1

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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KaiVancouver, CA
#2

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

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

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LuPreston, UK
#3

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

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#4

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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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#5

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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FreyaReykjavík, IS
#6

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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FlossieShrewsbury, UK
#7

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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NellaUtrecht, NL
#8

What the reply above 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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KeeleyBlackpool, UK
#9

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

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

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LarkGalway, IE
#10

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

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MinaLisbon, PT
#11

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.

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SorayaTehran, IR
#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.

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MaisieScarborough, UK
#13

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

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#14

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

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#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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OssieWolverhampton, UK
#16

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

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