The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it. Diarrhoea was my main issue with erythromycin too.

Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time.

Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.

Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.

Same here.

Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.

Print the page. Not on erythromycin but the pattern is familiar.

Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries? Not on erythromycin but the pattern is familiar.

Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write.

Function over score.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.

Same here.

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

Function over score. Diarrhoea was my main issue with erythromycin too.