The pharmacist was in a hurry and I did not ask anything

Started 15 April 2026 · 8 replies · 52 hearts · read 561 times

OllieCardiff, UK · 15 April 2026

3 months ago

A question rather than an update: The pharmacist was in a hurry and I did not ask anything

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this stage was, and how long it went on for before it changed.

The practical side has settled and the rest of it has not, and I would like to hear how other people at this stage handled the part that is not practical.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience of this stage gratefully received, and I will come back and say what happened.

TychoLeiden, NL

What I remember most from the first two weeks was how much room it took up in my head. That does fade. It is now something that happens on a Wednesday and I think about it for four minutes.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common at this stage and very rarely said out loud.

BodhiByron Bay, AU

The bit that surprised me was how much I wanted to talk to somebody who was two weeks ahead rather than two years ahead. That is what this circle is actually for.

CormacWaterford, IE

Nothing about my first fortnight was interesting enough to write down at the time, and I now wish I had written it down anyway. It is the period you remember least clearly and get asked about most.

7me too 2

PerduMontpellier, FR

I found the waiting harder than anything else in the first fortnight. Waiting to see whether I would feel something, waiting to see whether it was working. The waiting was the whole of my first two weeks.

TorinBelfast, NI

Read, understood, and glad you are here.

EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada

Speaking as a facilitator rather than as a member: what has been described is well within the ordinary range, and the only person who can say so about your body is the one who knows it.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

Somebody here told me early on to stop trying to predict how the next week would go, and it was the single most useful thing I was given. I was spending more energy forecasting than living.