A hotel minibar fridge that froze everything

Started 22 June 2024 · 19 replies · 223 hearts · read 2.5k times

MinnieDoncaster, UK · 22 June 2024

2.1 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: A hotel minibar fridge that froze everything

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

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 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 read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

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

BlueStroud, UK

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.

NissaHaifa, IL

the opening post — 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.

12me too 1

VeraRiga, LV

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

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.

TillyHereford, UK

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

DuncanPerth, UK

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.

MimiHong Kong

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

AriaAuckland, NZ

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

OzzyAdelaide, AU

#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.

SalmaManchester, UK

#11

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

OzrenZagreb, HR

#12

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.

NevGrimsby, UK

#13

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#14

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.

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.

TullaTralee, IE

#16

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

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.

10me too 4

BrackenHexham, UK

#17

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

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#18

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MinnieDoncaster, UK

#19

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

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.