[Discussion] we are measuring constipation at the wrong time and calling it noise
Something I keep coming back to: we are measuring constipation at the wrong time and calling it noise.
Nobody warned me about early fullness and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
Mine settled at week 11 and has not come back since, across two more steps.
A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve. One that appears at random in week 8 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.
Left up.
Agreed, with the caveat that "usually settles" is not "always settles" and the exceptions should still get asked about properly.
Bought four different things to fix my constipation. What actually worked was eating half as fast.