[PSA] severe abdominal pain is not a forum question
Short public-service post: severe abdominal pain is not a forum question.
Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The sulphur burps settled and I lost the same amount anyway.
The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was. Tracked it for a week and the mystery evaporated.
Nobody warned me about fatigue and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.
Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.
the first fortnight after a step is the worst of it, then it settles
reflux on day two and gone by day four is the standard shape
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
Agreed, with the caveat that "usually settles" is not "always settles" and the exceptions should still get asked about properly.
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
Adding to this — holding the dose rather than stepping is the option people forget they have.