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Third time. Genuinely third time

Started 30 December 2024 · 18 replies · 220 hearts · read 3.8k times

InêsPorto, PT · 30 December 2024
1.6 years ago

Third time. Genuinely third time — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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Gwen DAberystwyth, 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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NerysRhyl, UK
#2

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

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#3

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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NikolaiSofia, BG
#4

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

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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BobbieRochdale, UK
#5

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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MableBolton, UK
#6

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

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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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#7

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

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
#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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InêsPorto, PT
#9

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

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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK
#10

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

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

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NerysRhyl, 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.

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OttilieCheshire, 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.

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NikolaiSofia, BG
#13

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

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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BobbieRochdale, UK
#14

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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MableBolton, UK
#15

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

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#16

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#17

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

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InêsPorto, PT
#18

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

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

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