Sharps disposal when you move every year

Started 18 April 2025 · 20 replies · 223 hearts · read 1.9k times

TansyLudlow, UK · 18 April 2025

1.3 years ago

Sharps disposal when you move every year Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

DaraAthlone, IE

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.

BevanSwansea, UK

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

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

PrueChester, UK

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

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

10me too 8

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

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TiernanOmagh, NI

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

ObieNashville, TN

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

DashSeattle, WA

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?

BeaDublin, IE

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

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

HettieLancaster, UK

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

7me too 4

ZoëHackney, UK

#10

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.

Bell ANorwich, UK

#11

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.

NevGrimsby, UK

#12

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

13me too 3

OllyReading, UK

#13

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

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.

ShadeIbadan, NG

#14

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

EspeSeville, ES

#15

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

MintaColchester, UK

#16

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.

TansyLudlow, UK

#17

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.

13me too 8

DaraAthlone, IE

#18

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

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#19

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.

PrueChester, UK

#20

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

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