Not glamorous, but a plain packaging preference is the change that helped most.
No equipment needed and it costs nothing.
Write it down on paper, in the room, not in an app you will not open.
It sounds fussy until the day it saves you five minutes and an argument.
Worth trying before something more complicated.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries? Not on a plain packaging preference but the pattern is familiar.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Function over score.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going. A fortnight in on a plain packaging preference and it lines up.
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.