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What my GP checked before saying it was the medication

Started 17 November 2025 · 20 replies · 168 hearts · read 1.6k times

TychoLeiden, NL · 17 November 2025
8 months ago

What my GP checked before saying it was the medication — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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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RufusGuildford, UK
#1

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#2

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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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RunaAarhus, DK
#3

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

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HuwWrexham, UK
#4

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#5

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

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GigiNaples, IT
#6

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

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SinéadCork, IE
#7

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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NikolaiSofia, BG
#8

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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SunnivaBodø, NO
#9

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

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

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Ollie OPeterhead, UK
#10

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

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MarenBremen, DE
#11

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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PeggyRotherham, UK
#12

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

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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RillaAberdeen, UK
#13

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

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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NoahHull, UK
#14

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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TobySwindon, UK
#15

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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NettieBarrow, UK
#16

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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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#17

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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SamPortland, OR
#18

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

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#19

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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HollisBath, UK
#20

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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