Two systems across the Irish border

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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