Why I stopped and went back to a prescription

Started 28 August 2025 · 15 replies · 137 hearts · read 1.2k times

GittaBonn, DE · 28 August 2025

11 months ago

Why I stopped and went back to a prescription Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Putting this here because I do not want to be sold anything, I want to know what is actually established.

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.

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

ShadeIbadan, NG

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

SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK

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

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.

LucasSão Paulo, BR

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?

NolCork, IE

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

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TemSouthend, UK

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

BramberSteyning, UK

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.

NylaNairobi, KE

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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NazneenDhaka, BD

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.

Ollie OPeterhead, UK

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

GwionBangor, UK

#10

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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OsipTbilisi, GE

#11

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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SindriReykjavík, IS

#12

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

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.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

#13

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK

#14

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

PerrinNice, FR

#15

Reading the reply above, 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.