Vision changes — my optician sent me straight on

Mine did not settle and in the end I stopped, and that was the right decision for me. Both outcomes exist in this circle and neither is a failure.

Somebody here told me early on that the aim is to stay on treatment comfortably rather than to endure it, and that changed how quickly I raised things.

I logged mine against the day of my week and the pattern was so clear that my prescriber changed one thing and it mostly went. The log did the work.

The thing I underestimated was tiredness as a symptom in its own right. I kept looking for a dramatic cause and it was simply that I was very tired.

I went in about mine, it was investigated properly, and it was not what any of us feared. Going in is the whole of my advice and I have no other.

What I found is that describing it precisely to myself was half the battle. Vague discomfort is frightening; a specific sensation at a specific time is a question with an answer.

I would have written the same thing a year ago, word for word.

I found the anticipation harder than the symptom. Once I had had it twice and knew what it was, the third time barely registered.

Mine was almost entirely about timing. Moving when I did it by two days changed the shape of my week completely and cost nothing.

What I would ask is whether anything else changed in the same week. Mine turned out to be a completely unrelated thing that I had attributed to the medication for a month.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and in my case it settled after about five weeks.

There is a list in the guides of the things that need somebody today rather than a thread, and I have sent it to about six people. It is worth reading before you need it.