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Injecting in an aeroplane toilet, reviewed

Started 25 April 2026 · 13 replies · 77 hearts · read 1.2k times

NúriaBarcelona, ES · 25 April 2026
3 months ago

Injecting in an aeroplane toilet, reviewed — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

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.

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.

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

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#2

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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OzrenZagreb, HR
#3

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

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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VeraRiga, LV
#4

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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MinnieDoncaster, UK
#5

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

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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BlueStroud, UK
#6

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

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NevGrimsby, UK
#7

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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BrackenHexham, UK
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, 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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SalmaManchester, UK
#9

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

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MimiHong Kong
#10

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

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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TillyHereford, UK
#11

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

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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#12

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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DuncanPerth, UK
#13

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

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