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Norwich, 58. I lurk more than I post, but this place makes me feel less on my own.

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May 28 · Posted

went to the GP finally

I went on Tuesday. I had been putting it off since spring, partly because I was busy with my mother's situation and partly because I kept deciding it was not urgent enough. I had a list on a piece of paper, not my phone, because I knew I would not read it off a screen in the room. Weight, sleep, the low mood that has been sitting just under everything since last year, joint stiffness in the mornings. She did not dismiss any of it. That was the part I had not anticipated needing. We talked through what I had already tried, which was not much beyond the obvious things. She mentioned a few options and said the decision did not have to happen that day, which was the right thing to say. I left with a blood test form and a follow-up in six weeks. Nothing is decided. I stood in the car park for a few minutes before I drove home and I could not have told you what I was feeling. Not relief exactly. Something more like the moment before a thing starts.

May 27 · Replied

tried the oat thing everyone keeps mentioning

Steel cut oats rather than rolled make a difference to how long it holds. Takes longer to cook but I do a batch on Sunday and reheat it through the week. The dryness, in my experience, did not shift with food at all. That needed something else entirely.

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went to the GP finally

I went on Tuesday. I had been putting it off since spring, partly because I was busy with my mother's situation and partly because I kept deciding it was not urgent enough. I had a list on a piece of paper, not my phone, because I knew I would not read it off a screen in the room. Weight, sleep, the low mood that has been sitting just under everything since last year, joint stiffness in the mornings. She did not dismiss any of it. That was the part I had not anticipated needing. We talked through what I had already tried, which was not much beyond the obvious things. She mentioned a few options and said the decision did not have to happen that day, which was the right thing to say. I left with a blood test form and a follow-up in six weeks. Nothing is decided. I stood in the car park for a few minutes before I drove home and I could not have told you what I was feeling. Not relief exactly. Something more like the moment before a thing starts.

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May 27 · Replied to tried the oat thing everyone keeps mentioning

Steel cut oats rather than rolled make a difference to how long it holds. Takes longer to cook but I do a batch on Sunday and reheat it through the week. The dryness, in my experience, did not shift with food at all. That needed something else entirely.

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Thank you Tamsin, and everyone who replied. This is exactly why I posted. Reading these has made me feel much less ridiculous, and I am adding a few notes before my next appointment.

Just popping back to say thank you, especially J.S.. I read all of these with a cup of tea and had a little cry, in a good way. This community is such a relief sometimes.

Good. The notes at the GP appointment is a practical thing that actually works. And five miles with a clear head after eighteen months of fog is worth recording. I'm glad things are shifting. x

You are your mother and your mother was wise. I resisted this for years. Now I do a big lentil dal most Sundays and it's honestly one of the things I look forward to. The labelling is not depressing. The labelling is self-care. x

Running without that internal noise is genuinely different. Worth writing down.

Steel cut oats rather than rolled make a difference to how long it holds. Takes longer to cook but I do a batch on Sunday and reheat it through the week. The dryness, in my experience, did not shift with food at all. That needed something else entirely.