First forum account in years. Formerly a lurker on the old board. Pharmacy work is why I am here. Hi.
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. Five years in on pharmacy work and it lines up.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries? Same for me with pharmacy work, unfortunately.
Print the page.
Same here.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the start. It changes the appointment.