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What my practice offered before medication

Started 13 November 2024 · 19 replies · 216 hearts · read 4.5k times

GillyWorcester, UK · 13 November 2024
1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: What my practice offered before medication Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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

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

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.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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BrodyDunfermline, UK
#1

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

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LilPreston, UK
#2

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

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#3

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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MarkCoventry, UK
#4

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

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MaisieScarborough, UK
#5

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

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HattieExeter, UK
#6

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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MinaLisbon, PT
#7

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

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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TobySwindon, UK
#8

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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ZoëHackney, UK
#9

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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VivLuton, UK
#10

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

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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AriaAuckland, NZ
#11

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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SamPortland, OR
#12

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

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

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NellaUtrecht, NL
#13

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

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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AshSunderland, UK
#14

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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FenEly, UK
#15

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

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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KezWigan, 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.

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TarqWindsor, UK
#17

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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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#18

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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OzzyAdelaide, AU
#19

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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