Non-scale things that changed during a flat six months

Started 24 January 2026 · 18 replies · 143 hearts · read 2.4k times

GrizelKirkcaldy, UK · 24 January 2026

6 months ago

A question rather than an update: Non-scale things that changed during a flat six months

Long one, sorry. I have been chewing on this for a fortnight.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

NkechiAbuja, NG

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.

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

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.

8me too 6

MimiHong Kong

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

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.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

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.

NylaNairobi, KE

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 1

RuaridhFort William, UK

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

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.

OttilieCheshire, UK

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.

NikolaiSofia, BG

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

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

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

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

BrennaEnniskillen, NI

#10

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

TinukeManchester, UK

#11

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

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

TallisEly, UK

#12

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

4me too 4

ObiLagos, NG

#13

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

DelphiThessaloniki, GR

#14

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

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?

BertrandToulouse, FR

#15

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

FionnualaDundalk, IE

#16

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

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.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#17

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.

TacitaRome, IT

#18

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