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I wanted to quit in month five and I am glad I did not

Started 18 April 2026 · 8 replies · 52 hearts · read 629 times

BertrandToulouse, FR · 18 April 2026
3 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: I wanted to quit in month five and I am glad I did not Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
#1

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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BrunoMilan, IT
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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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OzrenZagreb, HR
#4

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

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#5

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

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

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BronLincoln, UK
#6

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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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#7

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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NolwennRennes, FR
#8

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.

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