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Is a plateau a signal or just weather

Started 8 August 2024 · 21 replies · 242 hearts · read 2.7k times

PeronelCanterbury, UK · 8 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Is a plateau a signal or just weather Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

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

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MattNottingham, UK
#1

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
#2

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#3

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.

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BramwellRipon, UK
#4

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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SunnivaBodø, NO
#5

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

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NikolaiSofia, BG
#6

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

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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BrackAlnwick, UK
#7

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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AurelBucharest, RO
#8

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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OdessaLviv, UA
#9

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

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

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#10

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

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NkemPort Harcourt, NG
#11

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.

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IzzyWatford, UK
#12

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

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#13

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.

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NkosiJohannesburg, ZA
#14

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

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AriaAuckland, NZ
#15

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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OzrenZagreb, HR
#16

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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TiernanOmagh, NI
#17

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

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PersisBristol, UK
#18

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

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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NolwennRennes, FR
#19

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

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#20

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.

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ObiLagos, NG
#21

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

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