Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the start. It changes the appointment.

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

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

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

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

Same here.

Currently on a named superintendent pharmacist myself.

You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.

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

The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.

Same here.

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.

Print the page.

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

My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it. Two months in on a named superintendent pharmacist and it lines up.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. How long have you been on a named superintendent pharmacist?