Back after a couple of years away. Older, more cynical, still on pharmacy work. Came for the pharmacy work threads, stayed for the tone. Looking forward to reading more than posting, probably.
Same here.
How long have you been on pharmacy work?
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.
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.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Same here.
Same here.
Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.