How I asked my GP about a slower schedule and what she said

Started 27 December 2025 · 17 replies · 130 hearts · read 1.9k times

GwennoPwllheli, UK · 27 December 2025

7 months ago

A question rather than an update: How I asked my GP about a slower schedule and what she said

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

IdrisCardiff, UK

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

BrammyBelfast, NI

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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.

GwynethAberdare, UK

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

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.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

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HalCambridge, UK

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

HeddaCopenhagen, DK

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

GwendaEbbw Vale, UK

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

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BroganCumbernauld, UK

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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.

FlorrieBlackburn, UK

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

BevanSwansea, UK

#10

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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GwennoPwllheli, UK

#11

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

IdrisCardiff, UK

#12

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?

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BrammyBelfast, NI

#13

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.

GwynethAberdare, UK

#14

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

DoraUtrecht, NL

#15

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.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#16

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.

HeddaCopenhagen, DK

#17

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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