Protein first, everything else after

Started 18 April 2026 · 12 replies · 85 hearts · read 727 times

RonanBelfast, NI · 18 April 2026

3 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Protein first, everything else after

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

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.

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

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

RohanPune, IN

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.

3me too 1

AshwinBengaluru, IN

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

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

RunaAarhus, DK

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

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.

TaaviTallinn, EE

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

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

TabbyMargate, UK

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

BramGhent, BE

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.

MaritGroningen, NL

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

TanviMumbai, IN

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

AnnikaStockholm, SE

#10

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

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#11

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

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

BertrandToulouse, FR

#12

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.