Restarting after a year off — the side effects came back like new

Started 4 June 2025 · 14 replies · 156 hearts · read 2.2k times

NikolaiSofia, BG · 4 June 2025

about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Restarting after a year off — the side effects came back like new

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

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.

NerysRhyl, UK

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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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria

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.

BobbieRochdale, UK

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.

InêsPorto, PT

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.

ZoraSarajevo, BA

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.

Gwen DAberystwyth, UK

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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AurelBucharest, RO

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

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

MableBolton, UK

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.

NikolaiSofia, BG

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

NerysRhyl, UK

#10

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

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.

OttilieCheshire, UK

#11

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.

BobbieRochdale, UK

#12

Reading the reply above, 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.

BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria

#13

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

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

ZoraSarajevo, BA

#14

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

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