What my podiatrist noticed

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

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.

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Building on what the reply above 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.

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.

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.

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

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