Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write.

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

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

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

Function over score.

Same here.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it. Not on pharmacy work but the pattern is familiar.

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

Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.

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

Same here.

Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way. Same for me with pharmacy work, unfortunately.

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

Print the page.

Same here.