Lentils were suddenly impossible and I do not know why

Started 19 December 2024 · 19 replies · 224 hearts · read 1.9k times

MorayElgin, UK · 19 December 2024

1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Lentils were suddenly impossible and I do not know why Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

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.

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.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

NemoneLewes, UK

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.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

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.

13me too 2

MableBolton, UK

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.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

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

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

PietPretoria, ZA

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

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.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

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

CloverTotnes, UK

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

BrynAberystwyth, UK

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

IvesPenzance, UK

#10

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.

MorayElgin, UK

#11

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

NemoneLewes, UK

#12

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.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

#13

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.

MableBolton, UK

#14

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

8me too 2

TanviMumbai, IN

#15

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.

PietPretoria, ZA

#16

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.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#17

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

9me too 7

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#18

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

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CloverTotnes, UK

#19

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