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

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?

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

Print the page.

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

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

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you. How long have you been on an explanation of benefits?

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

Same here.

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

Function over score.

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

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