Long time lurker, first post. Australia, chronic pain, currently on a first forum account. Here mostly to read, sometimes to argue about evidence quality. See you in the threads.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.
Print the page.
Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.
Function over score.
Function over score.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your 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.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Function over score.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way. Not on a first forum account but the pattern is familiar.