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

My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it. How long have you been on a second opinion?

Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.

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.

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

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

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going. Four months in on a second opinion and it lines up.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do. Same for me with a second opinion, unfortunately.

Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.

Function over score. Four months in on a second opinion and it lines up.

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