The plateau ended and I do not know why

Started 16 May 2024 · 14 replies · 178 hearts · read 1.5k times

GwynforLlanidloes, UK · 16 May 2024

2.2 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: The plateau ended and I do not know why Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

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

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.

Here is where I actually am. The medicine side has been more or less as described; the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it — what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell an ordinary stage from one worth raising.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers a whole stage of this.

Not looking for a plan. Just company, and whatever anybody found at the same stage.

NikitaYerevan, AM

Mine went on so long that I forgot it was a plateau and just got on with things, and I think that is genuinely how most of them end — not with a change, but with you stopping watching.

PerduMontpellier, FR

Somebody here described the plateau as the part where you find out whether you are doing this for a number or for a life, and that landed harder than I wanted it to.

TamarPlymouth, UK

If you are in one, the thing I would ask is whether you are still doing the things that were helping before it started. I quietly stopped several of mine and only noticed in hindsight.

10me too 7

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

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.

OssieWolverhampton, UK

The bit that was hardest to say out loud was that I felt cheated. Not sad, not discouraged. Cheated. It helped enormously to name it accurately.

TamzinPoole, UK

Ada said something I want to sit with for a second.

I stopped weighing anything during mine, entirely, for three months. It was the single kindest decision I made that year and my prescriber was fine with it.

PerlaManila, PH

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

Every plateau thread here has somebody saying theirs lasted longer than they thought possible and then ended. I did not believe them. They were right.

OttiHarrogate, UK

Honest experience: mine did not break. It became the level I stayed at, and after about four months I stopped calling it a plateau and started calling it where I live.

8me too 7

LeifTrondheim, NO

Not a solution, just company.

BrammyBelfast, NI

#10

I am eight weeks into one now and reading this thread because I need to hear that other people got through theirs. That is all. No question attached.

OsgarKillarney, IE

#11

What Brammy described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My flat stretch coincided with a genuinely difficult period at work, and I now think the two were related in ways I will never be able to separate out.

BramwellRipon, UK

#12

I asked at my review whether a long flat stretch meant something was wrong and was told, gently, that bodies are not linear and the assumption that they should be is the odd bit.

8me too 5

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#13

If anybody is wondering whether this was a silly thing to ask: it was not. It is the question that opens this circle every few months and it has never once been treated as small.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#14

Reading back through this circle's older threads was what got me through mine. Dozens of people, all convinced theirs was the permanent one, all still here.