What my A&E trip was actually like

Started 4 February 2026 · 11 replies · 81 hearts · read 1.4k times

NilsUppsala, SE · 4 February 2026

5 months ago

A question rather than an update: What my A&E trip was actually like

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

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.

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.

CasperOdense, DK

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.

VivLuton, UK

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

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

BrammyBelfast, NI

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.

MarenBremen, DE

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

PeggyRotherham, UK

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

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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HéloïseGeneva, CH

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

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?

TaaviTallinn, EE

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

RaviLeicester, UK

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#10

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.

NanNeath, 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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