Renal function figures that frightened me until they were explained

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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