Not glamorous, but a second opinion is the change that helped most. One change at a time, otherwise you learn nothing about which one worked.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables. A year in on a second opinion and it lines up.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Same here.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers. Side effects was my main issue with a second opinion too.
Same here.
Same here.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.