Question for the people who have taken clarithromycin long term: did the diarrhoea ever settle, or is that just the price of admission?
My pharmacist was more useful than the appointment, and it was a two minute conversation at the counter.
I asked for the refusal to be noted in the record and got what I asked for within a week.
Sun sensitivity is a real effect for several of these and is skipped as a footnote.
Interested mainly in what people wish they had known at the start.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Diarrhoea was my main issue with clarithromycin too.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.
Same here.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
Same here.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Same here.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.