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Six months off and where my appetite is

Started 9 February 2026 · 12 replies · 94 hearts · read 906 times

TedIpswich, UK · 9 February 2026
5 months ago

Six months off and where my appetite is Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

I am aware some of this may simply be what this stage is like. I would still like to hear from people who have been through it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

I have been reading this circle for months and everybody else's account of this stage sounds much tidier than mine, which is either reassuring or the wrong conclusion entirely.

Six months is the honest figure, taken from the two-line diary I keep rather than from memory, and memory had it lower.

No rush on replies. I am not going anywhere and neither, apparently, is this stage.

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DashSeattle, WA
#1

Coming back a year after stopping to say that I am well, that it was the right decision for me, and that I still read here every week.

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BramwellRipon, UK
#2

I came off because of cost, not because of anything clinical, and it took me a long time to say that without embarrassment. It is an extremely common reason and it is not a moral failing.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#3

Two things, both boring. None of us can tell you what schedule to be on. The conversation you want is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down before you go.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#4

If you are reading this while deciding, the only thing I would push on is: is anybody clinical in the loop. Everything else is genuinely yours to weigh.

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#5

Thank you for writing this down. It helped.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#6

Building on what Birdie B wrote rather than answering the original question.

The thing that made it manageable was that nothing about the decision was final. Reviewing it in three months was always an option and knowing that took the weight out of it.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#7

Niko said something I want to sit with for a second.

I came off during a pregnancy, on advice, and it was straightforward clinically and complicated emotionally, and I did not find anywhere to say that until this circle.

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BronLincoln, UK
#8

Honest note: my first month off was much better than I had feared and my third month was much harder. The order surprised me.

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TillyHereford, UK
#9

Mine was a side-effect decision, taken carefully, with two conversations and a proper look at the alternatives first. It was the right call and it was still sad.

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SinéadCork, IE
#10

Reading Bron, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The practical thing I got right was writing down why I was stopping while I was still on it. Two months later I could not have reconstructed my own reasoning.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#11

Holding a boundary for a moment: we do not compare progress in this circle, and a couple of replies have edged towards it. No blame; just steering back.

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IdaRotterdam, NL
#12

I stopped and did not go back, and I am at peace with it, and I would not present that as a recommendation to anybody. It was my situation and my body.

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