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Do you start from the bottom again

Started 15 May 2025 · 11 replies · 127 hearts · read 2.4k times

BobbieRochdale, UK · 15 May 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Do you start from the bottom again

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.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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NerysRhyl, UK
#1

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

7me too 3

InêsPorto, PT
#2

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

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AurelBucharest, RO
#3

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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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#4

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

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#5

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.

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#6

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

11me too 8

MableBolton, UK
#7

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

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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NikolaiSofia, BG
#8

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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BobbieRochdale, UK
#9

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#10

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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InêsPorto, PT
#11

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

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