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Protein powder honestly reviewed

Started 11 September 2024 · 16 replies · 211 hearts · read 3k times

AshwinBengaluru, IN · 11 September 2024
1.9 years ago

A question rather than an update: Protein powder honestly reviewed

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

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.

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.

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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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#1

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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MorayElgin, UK
#3

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

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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CloverTotnes, UK
#4

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

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#5

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

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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NemoneLewes, UK
#6

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

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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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PietPretoria, ZA
#8

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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TanviMumbai, IN
#9

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.

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MableBolton, UK
#10

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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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#11

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

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

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#12

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

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#13

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
#14

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

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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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#16

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

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

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