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Rotating shifts and a fixed weekly dose — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.
Practical question, and possibly a silly one.
I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.
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.
Thanks all. Genuinely.
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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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Building on what the opening post 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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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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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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Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.
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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My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.
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No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.
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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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the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.
It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.
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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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What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.
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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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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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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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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Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.
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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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Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.
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the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.
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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