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Eating out as a vegan with a tiny appetite

Started 3 January 2026 · 14 replies · 116 hearts · read 2.1k times

MableBolton, UK · 3 January 2026
7 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Eating out as a vegan with a tiny appetite

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

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.

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.

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

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#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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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#2

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

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#3

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

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#4

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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NemoneLewes, UK
#5

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

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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CloverTotnes, UK
#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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PietPretoria, ZA
#7

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

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TanviMumbai, IN
#8

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

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.

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IvesPenzance, UK
#9

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.

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MorayElgin, UK
#10

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.

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MableBolton, UK
#11

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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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#12

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

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#13

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.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#14

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

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