Small thing that made a difference for me with paying by card.
One change at a time, otherwise you learn nothing about which one worked.
It sounds fussy until the day it saves you five minutes and an argument.
It takes ten seconds and removes a whole category of problem.
Write it down on paper, in the room, not in an app you will not open.
Took me years to work this out.
Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else. Same for me with paying by card, unfortunately.
Same here.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
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.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Same here.
Print the page.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.