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How do you stop refreshing for a change that is not coming

Started 23 November 2024 · 19 replies · 212 hearts · read 3.7k times

TavitaApia, WS · 23 November 2024
1.7 years ago

How do you stop refreshing for a change that is not coming — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

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

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

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.

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

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GwennoPwllheli, UK
#1

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.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#2

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

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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LulaBournemouth, UK
#4

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

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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BramberSteyning, UK
#5

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

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.

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PolaGdańsk, PL
#6

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

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NikitaYerevan, AM
#7

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

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#8

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.

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SindriReykjavík, IS
#9

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

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

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#10

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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TanviMumbai, IN
#11

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

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#12

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.

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NadjaBelgrade, RS
#13

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#14

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

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

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TamarPlymouth, UK
#15

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.

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TorKeswick, UK
#16

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

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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LeifTrondheim, NO
#17

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

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#18

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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OrphBath, UK
#19

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

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