I asked to go back down and felt like a coward

Started 10 June 2024 · 14 replies · 172 hearts · read 3.2k times

GwynethAberdare, UK · 10 June 2024

2.1 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: I asked to go back down and felt like a coward

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.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

GwennoPwllheli, UK

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

HeddaCopenhagen, DK

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.

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.

IdrisCardiff, UK

Building on what the reply above 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.

9me too 6

BrammyBelfast, NI

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.

BevanSwansea, UK

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

BroganCumbernauld, UK

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

15me too 2

HalCambridge, UK

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.

DoraUtrecht, NL

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

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

GwendaEbbw Vale, 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.

8me too 7

GwynethAberdare, UK

#11

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

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.

12me too 9

GwennoPwllheli, UK

#12

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#13

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.

FlorrieBlackburn, UK

#14

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

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