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A question rather than an update: I moved up too fast in the spring and I am still cautious
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.
The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.
Thanks all. Genuinely.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.
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.
10me too 7
Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.
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What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.
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the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.
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.
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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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