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Two sessions a week for two years beats a perfect plan abandoned in March

Started 27 June 2025 · 13 replies · 130 hearts · read 1.3k times

TanviMumbai, IN · 27 June 2025
about a year ago

Something I have been sitting with: Two sessions a week for two years beats a perfect plan abandoned in March Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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BaySt Ives, UK
#1

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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OndineLausanne, CH
#2

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

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NkemPort Harcourt, NG
#3

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

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#4

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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MaritGroningen, NL
#5

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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RunaAarhus, DK
#6

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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BertrandToulouse, FR
#7

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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RohanPune, IN
#8

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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TabbyMargate, UK
#9

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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LenaMunich, DE
#10

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

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

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OsricSalisbury, UK
#11

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#12

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

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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NemoneLewes, UK
#13

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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