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Friends asking me to share and how I said no

Started 10 October 2025 · 16 replies · 145 hearts · read 1.4k times

TallisEly, UK · 10 October 2025
9 months ago

A question rather than an update: Friends asking me to share and how I said no

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

I have a plan for the ordinary weeks and no plan at all for the unusual ones, and the unusual ones are where everything has gone wrong.

I have worked out a system that mostly holds and there is one part of it that keeps failing, and I would like to hear how other people solved that part.

This is the boring administrative kind of problem, which I gather is the kind that actually gets solved when you ask.

Thanks in advance. Practical detail welcome, however dull — the duller the better, honestly.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#1

I would say get somebody clinical who takes you seriously. My first prescriber did not and changing was the best decision I made.

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BarnabyWinchester, UK
#3

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

The pressure from every direction at this age is relentless, and this circle is the only place I have found that does not add to it.

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OsmanAnkara, TR
#4

What I found is that my food history is complicated and this stirred a lot of it up, and I was not expecting the emotional side at all.

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TobinCork, IE
#5

Money is the whole constraint for me and it shapes every decision I make about this.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#6

I asked my prescriber directly about the long term and she was honest that the data does not go that far, and I would rather have that than reassurance.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#7

The long horizon is the part I think about most. Nobody can tell me what twenty years of this looks like because nobody knows yet.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#8

Thank you. Genuinely.

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TildaCambridge, UK
#9

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

Nothing here is medical advice and at this age the long-term questions are genuinely open, and anybody who tells you otherwise is guessing.

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TorinBelfast, NI
#10

What I would say to somebody my age starting is to find one adult who knows. Any adult. It makes a difference.

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FlorrieBlackburn, UK
#11

Coming back at eighteen months to say it has been fine, that it has been boring, and that I am glad I asked for a proper plan rather than improvising.

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GwionBangor, UK
#12

Something practical: I set my life up so that this is cheap and simple, because my situation changes every few months.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#13

My friends do not know and I have found that isolating, and this is where I say the things I cannot say to them.

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GwenBangor, UK
#14

Bookmarking this. Thank you.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#15

I want to slow this down slightly. Every household described in a thread like this is real, and not one of those arrangements transfers whole to anybody else, which is why the detail matters more than the conclusion.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#16

Torrin, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

My experience of appointments improved enormously once I stopped trying to sound older and more organised than I am.

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