Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.

Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?

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

Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.

Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.

Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way. Currently on a soup myself.

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?

Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.

Same.

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.

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.

Correct. Eight months in on a soup and it lines up.

Correct.