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Vegetarian for thirty years and rethinking the whole plate

Started 6 August 2025 · 13 replies · 130 hearts · read 1.6k times

BrynAberystwyth, UK · 6 August 2025
11 months ago

A question rather than an update: Vegetarian for thirty years and rethinking the whole plate

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

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.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#1

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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PietPretoria, ZA
#2

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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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#3

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

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

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MableBolton, UK
#4

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

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TanviMumbai, IN
#5

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

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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MorayElgin, UK
#6

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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IvesPenzance, UK
#7

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

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CloverTotnes, UK
#8

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

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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NoleneDurban, ZA
#9

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

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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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#10

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#11

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

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

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PietPretoria, ZA
#13

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

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