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Nights out, drinking and a reduced appetite

Started 26 June 2025 · 17 replies · 162 hearts · read 3.3k times

FlorrieBlackburn, UK · 26 June 2025
about a year ago

A question rather than an update: Nights out, drinking and a reduced appetite

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

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.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#1

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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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#2

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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NazneenDhaka, BD
#3

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

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GwenBangor, UK
#4

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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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#5

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

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

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GwionBangor, UK
#6

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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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#7

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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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#8

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

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TobinCork, IE
#9

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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TorinBelfast, NI
#10

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.

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TildaCambridge, UK
#11

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

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#12

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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GabePhoenix, AZ
#13

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

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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AikoOsaka, JP
#14

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

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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#15

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

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#16

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

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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TallisEly, UK
#17

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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