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Two weeks of my mother-in-law's cooking

Started 29 August 2025 · 13 replies · 113 hearts · read 1.6k times

TamarPlymouth, UK · 29 August 2025
11 months ago

A question rather than an update: Two weeks of my mother-in-law's cooking

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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

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.

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SalmaManchester, UK
#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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DuncanPerth, UK
#2

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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BlueStroud, UK
#3

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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NoorFacilitatorSingapore
#4

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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MinnieDoncaster, UK
#5

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

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NevGrimsby, 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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VeraRiga, LV
#7

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

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BrackenHexham, UK
#8

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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OzrenZagreb, HR
#9

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.

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MimiHong Kong
#10

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

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

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TullaTralee, IE
#11

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

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

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NissaHaifa, IL
#13

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

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