Sharing this because it took me an embarrassingly long time to work out.
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.
The first two weeks are the hard part, after that it is automatic.
That is the whole tip. No affiliate, no link, no drama.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Same here.
Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you. Not on keeping a copy of the prescription but the pattern is familiar.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
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. Not on keeping a copy of the prescription but the pattern is familiar.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going. Same for me with keeping a copy of the prescription, unfortunately.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Same here.
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.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.
Same here.