u/Elysiumthistime

Hello! Curious to hear if anyone has taken their pre-schooler to the circus yet? If so, what age were they and how did they get on?

My son is 4 and I was looking at taking him in a couple weeks but I'm hesitant also because he has never sat through a full movie at the cinema yet, he always asks to leave early and the circus will be 2hrs plus intermission so longer than any movie we've attempted.

I feel like a circus is a lot more entertaining and immersive than a movie though and you don't need to be silent at the circus so hopefully they aren't comparable and it'll be fine but the circus is a lot more expensive than the cinema and money is tight so while I want to go and do something fun with him, I know I'll feel shitty if we end up needing to leave really early and I'd rather spend that money elsewhere (we could go to a nearby water park instead for example).

I'm just sharing this because I genuinely didn't think I'd see such a marked difference in my side effects with only a 1mg difference but it's like night and day! Hopefully it will be helpful to someone out there who may also be struggling with their dosage.

So in summary, I started 2.5mg in early January. I stayed on 2.5mg for 6 weeks before moving to 3.5mg for a further 7 weeks and then moved up to 5mg for three weeks before I moved down to 4mg for the past two weeks. I've had really bad side effects since week 2, even with OOTC meds to treat the symptoms, I was having a lot of GI flare ups, dizzy spells and just generally felt rotten, that's why I stayed on 2.5mg and didn't move straight up to 5mg.

When I was on 3.5mg, I felt great, supported and no real side effects to talk about. When I felt that support go I decided to make the move up to 5mg and all was fine until the second week, I felt like I had returned to how I was responding on 2.5mg, only ten fold because now I was vomiting too. I couldn't eat anything without it setting my stomach off and I was having really bad sulphur burps constantly, it was awful and my bestie Pepto Bismol did nothing.

So I moved down to 4mg and overnight I felt like a new person. I really didn't think that a 1mg difference would be able to make such a change but here we are, I even had pizza this week and had no repercussions and my breath no longer reeks! So if you're struggling with side effects, maybe consider a very slight dose adjustment. Obviously speak to your provider about side effects and weight up your own risk assessment but I just wanted to share in case it can be helpful to someone, I know how rough those side effects can get if you're in the unlucky boat who gets them.