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Dating and not wanting to explain

Started 9 April 2026 · 12 replies · 70 hearts · read 751 times

TildaCambridge, UK · 9 April 2026
3 months ago

Dating and not wanting to explain Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

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.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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TorinBelfast, NI
#1

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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GwenBangor, UK
#2

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#3

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.

8me too 3

NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#4

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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

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TallisEly, UK
#5

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

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.

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TobinCork, IE
#6

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.

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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#7

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

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#8

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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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#9

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

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

6me too 4

NazneenDhaka, BD
#10

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

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#12

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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