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Starting resistance work at 67

Started 3 March 2025 · 14 replies · 141 hearts · read 1.5k times

TanviMumbai, IN · 3 March 2025
1.4 years ago

Starting resistance work at 67 Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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RohanPune, IN
#1

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#3

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

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BramGhent, BE
#4

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#5

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

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BaySt Ives, UK
#6

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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NkemPort Harcourt, NG
#7

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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MaritGroningen, NL
#8

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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MaryamBirmingham, UK
#9

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

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#10

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

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RonanBelfast, NI
#11

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

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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TabbyMargate, UK
#12

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#13

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.

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LenaMunich, DE
#14

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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