Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.

Print the page.

My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it. Same for me with a shortage, unfortunately.

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Not on a shortage but the pattern is familiar.

Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.

Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.

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

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.

Function over score.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

Function over score. Five years in on a shortage and it lines up.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.