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

Function over score.

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week? Not on an appeal but the pattern is familiar.

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

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

Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time. Not on an appeal but the pattern is familiar.

Same here.

Not on an appeal but the pattern is familiar.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

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

Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way. Two years in on an appeal and it lines up.

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

Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule. How long have you been on an appeal?

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

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

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