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A chemist explains why "99 per cent" is not a grade

Started 8 May 2026 · 12 replies · 82 hearts · read 1.2k times

WystanCheltenham, UK · 8 May 2026
2 months ago

A question rather than an update: A chemist explains why "99 per cent" is not a grade

Putting this here because I do not want to be sold anything, I want to know what is actually established.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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SephNorwich, UK
#1

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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SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK
#2

the opening post — 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.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#3

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

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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TobiasHamburg, DE
#4

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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ZebAustin, TX
#5

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

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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FenellaCirencester, UK
#6

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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PatrickLimerick, IE
#7

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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TorKeswick, UK
#8

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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YannickBrussels, BE
#9

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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TobinCork, IE
#10

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

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

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SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK
#11

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

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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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#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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