How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week? Same for me with a relapse, unfortunately.
Same here.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
The mug is the correct answer and everyone else is wrong.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.
No.
This is the correct amount of effort for a thread like this.
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. Five years in on a relapse and it lines up.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week? How long have you been on a relapse?
No wrong answers, and yours is a good one.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Depressingly accurate.
Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables.
Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are. Tolerance was my main issue with a relapse too.