Nine years of type 2 and the first year numbers moved

Started 23 June 2025 · 16 replies · 148 hearts · read 2.3k times

SadieSalford, UK · 23 June 2025

about a year ago

Nine years of type 2 and the first year numbers moved Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

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.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

RomyVienna, AT

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

BridieWexford, IE

the opening post 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?

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

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

7me too 4

HarlanDenver, CO

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.

10me too 9

ZoëHackney, UK

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

TressaSt Austell, UK

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

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

NadiaCairo, EG

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.

JontyOxford, UK

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

GillyWorcester, UK

#10

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

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.

8me too 5

HarriSwansea, UK

#11

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.

10me too 7

RonanBelfast, NI

#12

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.

ColNewquay, UK

#13

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

TaviaPalermo, IT

#14

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

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#15

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

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.

BunnyWeston-super-Mare, UK

#16

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