Hello from the United States. Found this place looking for something sensible about a decade of lurking. Old enough to have used forums before social media ruined them. Looking forward to reading more than posting, probably.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
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.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Same here.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless. Not on a decade of lurking but the pattern is familiar.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.