A missed dose abroad and what I did

Started 26 January 2025 · 23 replies · 248 hearts · read 2.4k times

BlueStroud, UK · 26 January 2025

1.5 years ago

A missed dose abroad and what I did — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

MinnieDoncaster, UK

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.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

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.

TillyHereford, UK

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.

AriaAuckland, NZ

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.

NissaHaifa, IL

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

OzrenZagreb, HR

What the reply above 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.

13me too 3

SalmaManchester, UK

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

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?

BrackenHexham, UK

#10

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

9me too 6

TamarPlymouth, UK

#11

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.

9me too 1

NevGrimsby, UK

#12

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.

PrunellaBury St Edmunds, UK

#13

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

OzzyAdelaide, AU

#14

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.

MimiHong Kong

#15

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.

DuncanPerth, UK

#16

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

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

NúriaBarcelona, ES

#17

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

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

TullaTralee, IE

#18

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

10me too 5

BlueStroud, UK

#19

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

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

MinnieDoncaster, UK

#20

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

IzoldaVilnius, LT

#21

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.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#22

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#23

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

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