Scotland, and what the difference has meant for me

Started 1 April 2024 · 18 replies · 224 hearts · read 2.6k times

TommieEly, UK · 1 April 2024

2.3 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Scotland, and what the difference has meant for me

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

IzzyWatford, UK

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.

HuwWrexham, UK

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

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

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.

16me too 7

BexPlymouth, UK

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

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.

BramwellRipon, UK

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.

TorKeswick, UK

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

14me too 9

TamGlasgow, UK

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

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

BronLincoln, UK

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.

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

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

12me too 4

BlueStroud, UK

#10

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

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.

HettyCambridge, UK

#11

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

VivLuton, UK

#12

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

BirdieMargate, 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?

BlySheffield, UK

#14

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

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

10me too 2

GusStirling, UK

#15

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.

FlorrieBlackburn, UK

#16

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

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

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#17

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

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

19me too 6

PerdyShrewsbury, UK

#18

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