Clinical · 18 Dec 2025
Member since November 2024
Clemmie
PCOS since nineteen. Cycle back for the first time in years.
Their journal
46 entries, and Clemmie is still writing.
Quiet
week 74steady energy 41 reply
Sitting down to this properly tonight. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of…
Three years side by side
week 58pleased energy 41 reply
A gentle week, mostly. A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Androgens improved, acne better, which she had…
She stopped the room
week 40steadied energy 23 replies
A gentle week, mostly. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. PCOS circle became the place she says the unsayable…
Somebody new
week 39warm energy 24 replies
Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which…
She read the diary
week 38heard energy 22 replies
A gentle week, mostly. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and…
Milestones
Non-scale · 25 Apr 2025
Walked into town and back, which had quietly stopped happening
Conversations they started
Recent check-in answers
My mother cooked and I ate what I could, slowly, and she was happy and I was happy.
Enough for the essentials, nothing for the nice things, which is where I have been all month.
It is fine at the moment and I am braced for it not to be.
I crashed and then I recovered in two days rather than five, which is progress of a sort.
Buddy
endedEnded well
The pairing that did not take, and what we learned
Six weeks, then a mutual and completely undramatic stop. We include it because roughly a third of pairings end and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.