[Meta] the gallbladder rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the gallbladder rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Disagreement welcome, but bring a concrete alternative wording. reflux for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it. Bought four different things to fix…
On buying things to fix side effects, which I did extensively and would not do again.
The interventions that changed anything for me were all behavioural and free: smaller meals, eating slower, stopping food a few hours before sleep, more fibre and considerably more water. The things I bought did nothing I could detect, and I was motivated to detect something.
The other lever, which people forget, is time at dose. Holding rather than stepping is a legitimate plan and it fixed my tolerance where nothing else did.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
Reflux was the one that got me.
Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.
On buying things to fix side effects, which I did extensively and would not do again.
This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.
Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my early fullness than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.