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How often do you actually see your prescriber now

Started 6 July 2025 · 20 replies · 184 hearts · read 1.8k times

OttilieCheshire, UK · 6 July 2025
about a year ago

Something I have been sitting with: How often do you actually see your prescriber now 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 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.

My honest position is that I do not know whether to change something or wait, and I have been going round that question for three weeks without getting anywhere.

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

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MarenBremen, DE
#1

The best description I have read of this stage was in this circle and it was simply: nothing happened again, and that is the news.

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YannickBrussels, BE
#2

Ottilie, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

What surprised me was how much I still wanted a community in maintenance. I had assumed I would drift off once it got easy and instead I turn up more.

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TamsinRedruth, UK
#3

I keep one line from my first year pinned in my notes, and I reread it whenever maintenance feels like nothing. It reminds me what nothing used to cost.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#4

A note for whoever opened this, whether you are still reading or come back to it in a year: there is no obligation on you to update us, and equally you are always welcome to.

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OllyReading, UK
#5

Tamsin — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

The thing that made maintenance feel real was a completely unremarkable set of bloods and a prescriber who said, come back in a year. That sentence took a while to enjoy.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#6

I have stopped tracking almost everything and kept exactly one habit, which is writing two lines on a Sunday. Everything else fell away and nothing bad happened.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#7

Agreed, and I have nothing to add to it.

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#8

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

A thing worth saying: my maintenance is not somebody else's. Mine involves a continuing prescription and a yearly review, and there are people here doing something completely different and doing well.

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DashSeattle, WA
#9

There is a particular kind of quiet grief in maintenance that took me a long time to name. Something that had been the centre of my attention simply stopped needing it.

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SalmaManchester, UK
#10

Two years in and the only thing I actively do now is a note in my phone once a week and a review once a year. Everything else has become automatic.

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StefanZurich, CH
#11

I reduced, held, and then reduced again eight months later, both times slowly and both times after a proper conversation. Neither move was dramatic and both were fine.

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NellFrome, UK
#12

Saying it out loud helps other people say it too. Thank you.

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HettyCambridge, UK
#13

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

I would say to anybody approaching this stage: decide what you want your ordinary week to look like, because nothing is going to arrange it for you once the novelty ends.

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BevanSwansea, UK
#14

Maintenance is where the non-scale things came into their own for me. All the things I noticed in year one turned out to be the things that stayed.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#15

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

What I did not anticipate was becoming a person other members ask questions of. I still feel like I am making it up, and apparently that never entirely stops.

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TressaSt Austell, UK
#16

My maintenance has had two wobbles in it, both around big life events, both of which passed. I mention them because a smooth account would be a dishonest one.

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WilfStoke, UK
#17

Maintenance made me much more interested in strength than I ever was earlier on, mostly because it was the one thing still visibly changing.

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GigiNaples, IT
#18

Honest answer to how long I plan to be here: I do not know, and my prescriber does not either, and we have agreed to keep looking at it rather than pretending otherwise.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#19

Noticing out loud that we have drifted into comparing timelines. That happens without anybody intending it and it does not help the person who opened the thread. Let us come back to them.

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BoWhitby, UK
#20

Maintenance is where I finally had to deal with things the earlier stages had let me postpone. That was harder than any of the physical adjustment.

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