Sharing this because it took me an embarrassingly long time to work out.
Label things. Anonymous jars are how mistakes start.
Write it down on paper, in the room, not in an app you will not open.
One change at a time, otherwise you learn nothing about which one worked.
Anyone got something better?
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Same here.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster. Eight months in on storage at home and it lines up.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point.
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.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.