Full disclosure first, then the detail.
Response to an email came in under a day and answered the actual question.
The pharmacy person knew what a cold chain was, which is a low bar nobody clears.
Nothing here was paid for or gifted.
Print the page.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Print the page.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.
Print the page. Five years in on a documentation request and it lines up.
Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are.
Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Print the page.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
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.