You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.

Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable. How long have you been on a decade of lurking?

You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.

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

Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.

Function over score. Same for me with a decade of lurking, unfortunately.

Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?

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

Same here.

Same for me with a decade of lurking, unfortunately.

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

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

My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it. Same for me with a decade of lurking, unfortunately.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. How long have you been on a decade of lurking?

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