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Sulphur burps and the world I did not want to know about

Started 2 April 2024 · 18 replies · 222 hearts · read 2.7k times

CasperOdense, DK · 2 April 2024
2.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Sulphur burps and the world I did not want to know about Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

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.

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.

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.

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

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MaudGhent, BE
#1

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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LarkGalway, IE
#2

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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BrammyBelfast, NI
#3

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#4

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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NanNeath, UK
#5

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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OsipTbilisi, GE
#6

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

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

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PerrinNice, FR
#7

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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BaySt Ives, UK
#8

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

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#9

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

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NilsUppsala, SE
#10

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

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

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HéloïseGeneva, CH
#11

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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VivLuton, UK
#12

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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MarenBremen, DE
#13

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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BrimHalifax, UK
#14

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

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

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#15

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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TaaviTallinn, EE
#16

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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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#17

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

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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PersisBristol, UK
#18

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

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