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A gap over Ramadan and how I planned the return

Started 4 May 2025 · 17 replies · 181 hearts · read 1.8k times

MableBolton, UK · 4 May 2025
about a year ago

Something I have been sitting with: A gap over Ramadan and how I planned the return Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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BobbieRochdale, UK
#1

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

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#2

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#3

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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NikolaiSofia, BG
#4

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.

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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK
#5

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#6

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

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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NerysRhyl, UK
#7

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

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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InêsPorto, PT
#8

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

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MableBolton, UK
#9

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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BobbieRochdale, UK
#10

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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OttilieCheshire, UK
#11

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#12

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

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NikolaiSofia, BG
#13

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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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK
#14

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#15

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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InêsPorto, PT
#17

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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