Fortified drinks — which ones are tolerable

Started 21 November 2025 · 21 replies · 182 hearts · read 3.7k times

MableBolton, UK · 21 November 2025

8 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Fortified drinks — which ones are tolerable Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

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

CloverTotnes, UK

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

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.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

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

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

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.

TanviMumbai, IN

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

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.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

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

NemoneLewes, UK

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

MorayElgin, UK

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

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.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK

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

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

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PietPretoria, ZA

#10

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.

MableBolton, UK

#11

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.

CloverTotnes, UK

#12

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

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#13

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

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

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AshwinBengaluru, IN

#14

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

IvesPenzance, UK

#15

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

TanviMumbai, IN

#16

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.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

#17

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

NemoneLewes, UK

#18

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

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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MorayElgin, UK

#19

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

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#20

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

PietPretoria, ZA

#21

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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