Nobody in either clinic wanted to own the question

Mine required patience more than anything else. Nothing was quick, everything took a season, and it has all landed somewhere good.

I would say the strength work is the thing I would not give up. Everything else has been adjusted at some point; that has been constant.

The stage I am at came with a lot of unsolicited opinion from other people, and this circle has been notably free of that.

My specialist was clear that the evidence on the combination is thinner than either subject separately, and I appreciated the honesty enormously.

Just marking that I read this properly rather than skimming it.

The night sweats and the sleep disruption were the things that wore me down, and neither of them was the thing I had gone in about.

My records were spread across three services and putting them in one document myself made every appointment since more productive.

What surprised me was how much of my long-standing experience of hunger changed, and how much of it I had assumed was simply my character.

Reading and nodding. Nothing to add, and I wanted you to know somebody had read it.

What I got wrong was changing several things in the same month. It took me another four months to work out which had helped.

Something practical: I keep two columns in my notes so that each thing gets recorded against its own story rather than in one undifferentiated list.

I found the joint aches confusing because they belonged plausibly to two stories, and my GP investigated properly rather than assuming.