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Discharged from the service and back to my GP

Started 3 November 2025 · 18 replies · 148 hearts · read 2.1k times

OsricSalisbury, UK · 3 November 2025
9 months ago

A question rather than an update: Discharged from the service and back to my GP

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

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.

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.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#1

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.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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WystanCheltenham, UK
#3

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

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MarkCoventry, UK
#4

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

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.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#5

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.

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PriyaReading, UK
#6

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

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TabbyMargate, UK
#7

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

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.

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KateBelfast, NI
#8

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

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FitzLimerick, IE
#9

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

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ColNewquay, UK
#10

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

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.

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OttiHarrogate, UK
#11

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

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#12

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

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.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#13

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?

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HollisBath, UK
#14

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

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PamSouthport, 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.

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DelythBala, UK
#16

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.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#17

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

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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TedIpswich, UK
#18

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

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