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How my GP practice handles reviews

Started 20 March 2025 · 17 replies · 162 hearts · read 2.3k times

SalmaManchester, UK · 20 March 2025
1.3 years ago

How my GP practice handles reviews Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

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

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.

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

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BrodyDunfermline, UK
#1

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

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PippaTruro, UK
#2

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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NevGrimsby, UK
#3

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

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

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.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#5

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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BrackenHexham, UK
#6

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

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Ollie OPeterhead, UK
#7

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

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FlossieShrewsbury, UK
#8

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

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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BlySheffield, UK
#9

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.

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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#10

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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MableBolton, 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.

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SaffHastings, UK
#12

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

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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RuaridhFort William, UK
#13

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

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HannahSheffield, UK
#14

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

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#15

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

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

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#16

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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HuwWrexham, UK
#17

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

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