Sharing this because it took me an embarrassingly long time to work out.
The first two weeks are the hard part, after that it is automatic.
One change at a time, otherwise you learn nothing about which one worked.
Worth trying before something more complicated.
Function over score.
Same here.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. Same for me with reading the leaflet, unfortunately.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
Same here.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
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.
Print the page.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
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.