Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.

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

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.

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

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

Same here.

You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves. Five years in on a written medication list and it lines up.

Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire. Five years in on a written medication list and it lines up.

Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster. How long have you been on a written medication list?

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

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

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.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do. How long have you been on a written medication list?