Alternating between two extremes and finding no middle

Started 21 April 2026 · 9 replies · 60 hearts · read 652 times

GwythFishguard, UK · 21 April 2026

3 months ago

A question rather than an update: Alternating between two extremes and finding no middle

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

I want to describe this accurately rather than politely, because the polite version is what I said at my last appointment and it got me nowhere.

My pharmacist has been helpful and my question has now outgrown what she can answer at a counter, so I am asking here while I wait for an appointment.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment, which is ridiculous given that this circle exists precisely for it.

I have said two in the title rather than "several", because "several" is what I said last time and it got me nowhere.

Not after remedies particularly. Mostly I want to know whether this is ordinary and how long it went on for.

TamzinPoole, UK

Unglamorous and universal, and I am glad this circle says so out loud, because I spent six weeks too embarrassed to ask about mine.

3me too 4

PerryCardigan, UK

Coming back to close the loop: settled, manageable, no longer something I think about. It genuinely does get less interesting.

XanBerlin, DE

My honest report is that mine took about three months to find a stable pattern and has been fine ever since. Three months felt very long at the time.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

A note for anybody arriving at this thread mid-way: if what you are experiencing is frightening rather than merely uncomfortable, that is a reason to ask somebody qualified this week rather than to read further.

LeniLeipzig, DE

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

Somebody here described this as the least discussed and most common part of the whole business, and my experience matches that exactly.

PoppyLeeds, UK

Mine improved when I stopped ignoring it. That sounds glib and it is literal — I had been putting it off for hours at a time and that was making it worse.

8me too 9

IvorLlanelli, UK

Getting up ten minutes earlier so I was not rushing was the change that helped most, which was not the answer I was hoping for.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

Facilitator note: pharmacists are the most underused people in this whole business and several of the questions on this page are ones they answer in ten minutes at a counter.

OdessaLviv, UA

Marking that I am here, in case that counts for anything today.