Two years in at 24 and what I would tell myself

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.