Started Brufen (ibuprofen) two years ago for pain and I am trying to work out whether what I am feeling now is tolerance or something else.
Withdrawal symptoms are not the same as side effects, and conflating them wasted a year of my life.
I am not worse, exactly. I am less able to pretend, which may be progress.
Pharmacist, not doctor, is where the useful advice has come from every single time.
The dose has stayed the same for two years and the effect has not, which is the whole puzzle.
What would you ask the prescriber if you had fifteen minutes?
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Same here.
Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Personal experience, labelled as such, is exactly right here. Nobody is prescribing.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
Function over score.
Same here.
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