Week ten and my clothes fit differently, which I find complicated

Started 15 December 2024 · 17 replies · 161 hearts · read 1.4k times

KateBelfast, NI · 15 December 2024

1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Week ten and my clothes fit differently, which I find complicated Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have been reading here for a few weeks and have not posted, so this is me posting.

I nearly did not post this because it feels like a small thing to be stuck on. It has taken up most of my thinking for a month, so apparently it is not small to me.

I have a review coming up and I would like to arrive with a proper account of this stage rather than the vague description I gave last time.

To put the figure in the title beside the rest of it: ten. That is the whole of the arithmetic and none of it is an estimate.

I will report back either way, because other people's follow-ups have helped me more than their questions.

TavishIsle of Skye, UK

My week six was much harder than my week two, which I had not expected at all. I had assumed it got monotonically easier and it does not always go in that direction.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

I want to name the thing this circle does when somebody says they have stopped: it treats it as ordinary. That is not automatic anywhere else and it is worth saying out loud here.

StefanZurich, CH

Around week nine I stopped noticing it. Not because anything dramatic changed, but because it had become part of the week rather than an event in it.

6me too 3

BlueStroud, UK

Sitting with you on this one.

BramleyBath, UK

The first twelve weeks are also when you find out what your prescriber is like when you ask a question between appointments. Mine was much more available than I expected and I had spent weeks not asking.

SindriReykjavík, IS

Stefan has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

My most useful early habit was writing down the question the moment it occurred to me, because by the appointment I could never remember what had been worrying me at eleven at night.

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

Weeks one to twelve for me were: strange, quiet, difficult, difficult, better, fine, fine, tired, tired, fine, good, and then a week where I forgot I was doing it at all.

OllieCardiff, UK

I found the second month harder than the first because the novelty had worn off and it had turned into something I had to keep doing. That is a very ordinary shape.

8me too 6

NualaArmagh, NI

If you are in the middle of this stretch and everything feels unresolved, that is the correct feeling for the middle of it. Nothing is meant to be resolved yet.

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

#10

What changed for me around week ten was less physical than practical. I finally had a routine that fit my actual week rather than the week I wished I had.

OndineLausanne, CH

#11

Do not compare your week seven to somebody else's week seven. I did that for about a month and it cost me a fortnight of unnecessary worry.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#12

Twelve weeks in I finally understood that the steep part is the learning, not the medicine. Once I knew how my own week worked, everything got quieter.

10me too 3

MargueriteQuebec City, CA

#13

A small thing that made the whole stretch easier: I set one calendar reminder for the day before, not the day itself. Being reminded on the day was always slightly too late to be useful.

NellaUtrecht, NL

#14

Picking up Ondine’s point rather than starting a new one.

The bit I underestimated was how much of the first twelve weeks is logistics — collections, dates, where things live, who knows. The physical side took up much less of my attention than the arrangements did.

KateBelfast, NI

#15

Building on what Marguerite wrote rather than answering the original question.

The weekly rhythm of this circle carried me through the first twelve weeks more than any single piece of information did. Turning up on a Thursday to say a small thing was enough.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

#16

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.

Obi OEnugu, NG

#17

Thank you for coming back to update it. So many threads just stop.