Not glamorous, but a plain packaging preference is the change that helped most.
No equipment needed and it costs nothing.
It takes ten seconds and removes a whole category of problem.
One change at a time, otherwise you learn nothing about which one worked.
Took me years to work this out.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Function over score.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else. Tolerance was my main issue with a plain packaging preference too.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Same here.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Personal experience, labelled as such, is exactly right here. Nobody is prescribing.
Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Four months in on a plain packaging preference and it lines up.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately. How long have you been on a plain packaging preference?