Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Same here.
Eight months in on nortriptyline and it lines up.
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time.
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.
The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.
Print the page.
Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point.